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2121 The Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, p. 40.5 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)

… be voted on, and many of them would have voted against if it they had been there. Is this according to the American way of doing things? Is it not depriving the …

2122 The Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, p. 41.1 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)

… members, votes upon the petition at any regular meeting, and it is indorsed, although quite a number refrain from voting. Now it is a thing that would not occur …

2123 The Blair Sunday-Rest Bill, p. 44.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)

… unanimous vote of indorsement was taken. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which comes next, had 185,521 at the time of the vote. The Roman Catholics …

2124 Fathers of the Catholic Church, p. 335.2 (Ellet Joseph Waggoner)

… of voting was vested in the inferior clergy, who were best qualified to judge of the merit of the candidates; in the senators or nobles of the city, all those …

2125 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 3 October 25, 1889, page 82 paragraph 6

… a vote favoring the petition. And, lastly, the fraud that was perpetrated in counting the entire body of the Knights of Labor as favoring the Sunday-law petition …

2126 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 6, 1891, page 5 paragraph 5

… Conference voted to build a college in the West. This was afterwards located in Lincoln, Neb. The school buildings are now well under way, and will be ready to …

2127 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 6, 1891, page 6 paragraph 9

… was voted at our last General Conference that we build or buy a ship of suitable size, and have it fitted out for labor among the islands of the Pacific. The ship …

2128 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 6, 1891, page 7 paragraph 3

… we voted $20,000, half of which amount has been paid. Besides these there have been other large enterprises in behalf of the home work, such as paying the district …

2129 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 6, 1891, page 9 paragraph 4

… . To vote that such and such things shall be done, and make no provisions by which to carry them into effect, leaves the committee in extreme embarrassment. We …

2130 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 6, 1891, page 12 paragraph 3

… a vote taken at the last session, the society increased the size of the Home Missionary, and made it a twenty-four-page monthly. The paper received a hearty support …

2131 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 8, 1891, page 24 paragraph 5

… by vote the sums apportioned to them of the $14,500.40 assigned to the District as their part of what the nine Conferences were expected to pay for the enterprise …

2132 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 8, 1891, page 27 paragraph 20

This was doing even more than we anticipated, and we feel that the General Conference is deserving of a vote of thanks for its liberality.

2133 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 8, 1891, page 28 paragraph 1

… the vote of the Executive Committee, it was changed to a sixteen-page monthly, and is still published in that form. Mrs. C. H. Jones and Mrs. Jessie F. Waggoner were …

2134 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 8, 1891, page 32 paragraph 8

It was voted to extend a hearty welcome to the Maritime Provinces and Scandinavian Sabbath-school Associations, which had reported during the last year and thus become members of the International Association.

2135 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 8, 1891, page 32 paragraph 9

The president being authorized, by vote, to appoint the committees, the following were named:-

2137 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 9, 1891, page 39 paragraph 4

… was voted to raise $15,000 for this purpose, and an invitation extended to neighboring Conferences to join in this effort. It seems to be a favorable time for …

2138 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 10, 1891, page 50 paragraph 18

11. The committee shall have no authority to purchase or lease real estate, nor to involve the board in any financial enterprise except by vote of the board.

2139 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 11, 1891, page 69 paragraph 14

The question on the adoption of the report was called for, and the report was adopted without a dissenting vote.

2140 General Conference Daily Bulletin, vol. 4 March 11, 1891, page 69 paragraph 18

… mere vote. God has blessed his work in a marked manner. Twenty years ago if we should have heard of such a great work as was done the past year, we should have said …