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The Church Prepared for Development and Expansion

With confidence renewed in the Spirit of Prophecy and growing in experience, the Seventh-day Adventist Church with its 3,500 members was on the verge of increasing lines of development. These would include an understanding of the relation of health to religious experience, and lead to the establishment of health and educational institutions. They would also include an understanding that the whole world was before them, to win for Christ and His kingdom those who would lend an ear. What a challenge! 1BIO 485.4