The Spirit of Prophecy in the Advent Movement

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Warnings Neglected

Without a doubt we of the advent movement should have been moved by these counsels to give study to the question of handling our world-wide mission operations as they might be affected by international strife. SPIAM 109.3

As it was, we did not understand the urgency of the counsels that came. They seemed like words for a time afar off. When the war did break, there was no time for conferences, no time for any special preparation for the handling of work in great mission fields that depended upon the European conference organizations. Everything had to be done on the spur of the moment. And it was a great advantage to the missions in some parts that the United States was neutral for a time, after those missions had been cut off from their base of supplies in Europe. SPIAM 109.4