Chapter 16—Relocating and Rebuilding
God’s Guidance in Relocation of the Review and Herald—
During the past night many things have been presented to me regarding
our present dangers, and some things about our publishing work have
been brought most distinctly to my mind.
As our brethren search for a location for the Review and Herald
Publishing House, [
Following the fire of December 30, 1902, which
leveled the main building of the Review and Herald publishing plant,
church leaders started a search for a new location outside of Battle
Creek. They were led by God to Washington, D.C., where they located
the Review and Herald publishing house in 1903. Funds necessary
for this move were provided liberally by SDAs, although there was
opposition to the move from Battle Creek by some local residents,
including a few who were prominent in the work of the church. In
Letter 2, 1903
, Ellen White wrote: “I hope that our brethren will heed
the lesson that God is trying to teach them, and that they will not
rebuild the publishing house in Battle Creek.”] they are earnestly to
seek the Lord. They are to move with great caution, watchfulness, and
prayer, and with a constant sense of their own weakness. We must not
depend upon human judgment. We must seek for the wisdom that God
gives.—
Letter 106, 1903
.
Investments to Reestablish Review and Herald—When the
publishing house is established away from Battle Creek, I shall do all
in my power to build it up and to encourage those connected with it
to carry forward the work of the Lord, exalting the principles of right
higher and still higher....
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Let us do what we can to set the publishing house on its feet again.
Let our people everywhere show a liberal spirit. In past years our
brethren throughout the field have done a noble work by lending their
means to our publishing institutions. Let this good work continue. The
time to help in the work is when earnest efforts are being made to put
the work on a right basis....
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