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this matter, which was introduced before my husband’s death. Since
that time I have been shown that efforts would be made to bind up the
publishing house in Oakland with the publishing house in Battle Creek,
in order that the publishing house at Battle Creek might have control.
These warnings I did not fully understand, because many times the
message had been given me that these two institutions should not be
at strife one with another, or manifest anything savoring of jealousy
or envy, but that they should stand as sister institutions, each doing
its appointed work as God’s instrumentality.... Each institution was
established of God to do its respective work.
Before my husband’s death this matter in regard to the publishing
house at Battle Creek and the publishing house at Oakland was pre-
sented to me under the figure of the vine, and since that time it has
been presented to me under the same figure. The Lord has shown me
that these two institutions are to be kept as separate as two branches
which, though distinct, both center in the parent vine. They are not to
be merged into one, but are to be kept distinct, yet each is to derive its
nourishment from the same source.—
Letter 64, 1896
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Pacific Press to Stand Independent in God—God would have
had the Pacific Press Publishing House stand free and clear, and un-
trammeled by any power. God would have every one of His institutions
rise above the frosty atmosphere in which the human agent will be if
left to himself. Inclined to live and breathe, he must live and breathe
in the holy, pure, life-giving atmosphere of heaven, else sentiments
and plans and resolutions will clog and impede our heavenly advance
movements.—
Letter 35a, 1895
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God has presented to me, which I have presented to you, that
the Pacific Press should stand on its own individuality, relying upon
God, doing its work in God, as His instrumentality—the human agent
working with God, contrite in spirit, meek and lowly in heart, ready
to be taught of God, but not subject to any earthly power that shall
propose plans and ways that are not after the light God has given. Be
on guard. Be on guard, and do not sell your religious liberty to any
office or to any man, or board or council of men.—SpTPW 25.
Pacific Press Branches Allowed to Live—The Lord presented
before me that branches of this work would be planted in other places,
and carried on under the supervision of the Pacific Press, [
At the
present time branch offices of the Pacific Press are operating in Omaha,