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the working forces, rather than to follow plans tending
toward centralization. The stakes were to be strengthened,
but only that the cords might be lengthened. From
established centers the influence of present truth was to
be extended into all the world. Mrs. White said, in part:
p. 388, Para. 2, [LS15].
"Will those who have collected in Battle Creek hear the
Voice speaking to them, and understand that they are to
scatter out into different places, where they can spread
abroad a knowledge of the truth, and where they can gain an
experience different from the experience that they have
been gaining? p. 388, Para. 3, [LS15].
"In reply to the question that has been asked in regard to
settling somewhere else, I answer, Yes. Let the General
Conference offices and the publishing work be moved from
Battle Creek. I know not where the place will be, whether
on the Atlantic coast or elsewhere; but this I will say:
Never lay a stone or a brick in Battle Creek to rebuild the
Review Office there. God has a better place for it." p.
389, Para. 1, [LS15].
From Battle Creek to the East -- Before the close of the
1903 General Conference, the delegates voted: p. 389,
Para. 2, [LS15].
"That the General Conference offices be removed from
Battle Creek, Mich., to some place favorable for its work
in the Atlantic States." p. 389, Para. 3, [LS15].
Soon after the close of the Conference session, the
General Conference Committee took the following action: p.
389, Para. 4, [LS15].
"Voted, That we favor locating the headquarters of the
General Conference in the vicinity of New York City." p.
389, Para. 5, [LS15].
And in the forty-third annual meeting of the Review and
Herald Publishing Association, held April 21, 1903,
recommendations were adopted looking toward the transfer of
the work of the Association to some point in the Eastern
States. p. 389, Para. 6, [LS15].
In the discussion of these recommendations, the object set
forth during the General Conference session -- placing the