General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY WORK

Referring to the GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN of our last session, you will find that the recommendation concerning the transfer of the American Sentinel from the management of the Pacific Press to the Religious Liberty Association, and the change of the Association’s headquarters from New York to Chicago, was referred to the General Conference Committee for final action. The removal of the Association’s headquarters from New York to Chicago took place soon after the South Lancaster Conference, but arrangements for the transfer of the Sentinel were not fully completed, and the transfer made, until May 1, 1900. After the transfer the name of the paper was changed from the American Sentinel to the Sentinel of Liberty. The Association has rooms on the seventh floor of the Monon Building, 324 Dearborn St., Chicago, where all its business, except the press work upon the Sentinel, is transacted. The Association is now quite fully organized, with a full corps of office workers, such as editors, secretaries, and assistants, but it is still lacking in aggressive field men. Of late years the importance of this branch of our work has not been realized by the denomination at large as it should have been; hence I trust that it may receive its due share of consideration at the hands of this Conference, and that plans may be adopted that will enable the Association to enter upon more aggressive work at once, and to push it with vigor in the future. GCB April 3, 1901, page 22.4