General Conference Bulletin, vol. 5

THE GENERAL CONFERENCE BULLETIN

MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1903

No “Bulletin” was issued Sunday, April 5. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.1

“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.2

This number contains some most important instruction from Sister White. that should be carefully read by all. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.3

Many of the delegates are improving the occasion to get better acquainted with the working of the Pacific Press office. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.4

The attendance at the Oakland Sabbath-school last Sabbath was 826. The donation was $53.79, half of which went to California orphans, and half to the Haskell Home. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.5

Those who work for God are daily to empty the heart of self, that they may be cleansed of their hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong. They are to depend wholly upon Him who taught as never man taught.—E. G. W. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.6

At his request, the time of the Conference Friday afternoon and Sunday forenoon, April 3 and 5, was given Dr. J. H. Kellogg in making a further lengthy and detailed account of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and his connection with it. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.7

Though the work of the Conference appears to be moving slowly, real progress is being made. The committees are hard at work, and will, doubtless, soon have their reports ready for submission to the Conference. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.8

The beautiful weather we are now having is in pleasing contrast with the few rainy days at the beginning of the Conference. The skies are clear, the days bright and balmy, and the nights pleasantly cool, as nights almost always are in California. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.9

The train upon which Elder Geo. I. Butler was a passenger coming to the Conference narrowly escaped being wrecked last Thursday in the mountains of Colorado. A landslide carried away a portion of the track just ahead of the train. The engine almost toppled over into the river, and some of the car windows were broken by stones which rolled down the mountainside. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.10

The discourse Friday evening. April 3, by George B. Thompson, of the New York Conference. was from the inspiring words of the Lord to Moses. “Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.” Exodus 14:15. The speaker traced briefly the history of that people, and showed the parallel between their time and ours, and between their experience then and the experience of the people of God now. Verily their experiences are “our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things. as they also lusted.” And they were “written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.” GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.11

Let human beings, subject to temptation, remember that in the heavenly courts they have a high Priest who is touched with the feeling of their infirmities, because He Himself was tempted in all points like as they are. And let those in positions of responsibility, especially, remember that they are subject to temptation, and wholly dependent on the merits of the Saviour. However sacred the work to which they may be called, they are still sinners, who can be saved only by the grace of Christ. One day they must stand before the throne of God, saved by the blood of the Lamb, or condemned to the punishment of the wicked.—Unpublished Testimony. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.12

It takes more than money to make a sanitarium; it requires doctors nurses, and helpers. And it requires more than money, doctors, nurses, and helpers to establish and successfully carry on sanitariums and medical missionary work; it requires a constituency, churches, converted and loyal to the whole truth for this time, to furnish means to build and equip sanitariums, promulgate health principles, circulate health literature, and to supply doctors, nurses, and helpers for sanitarium work. And it requires a ministry to go forth to proclaim the truth and raise up such a constituency to furnish these means, do this work, and supply these workers. Therefore it requires the whole body, the whole church, all its members and facilities,—ministers, members, doctors, nurses, helpers, means, buildings, literature, and canvassers,—to successfully carry on sanitariums and medical missionary work. GCB April 6, 1903, page 96.13