Report of General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (1863)
The minutes of the meeting at Battle Creek, Michigan, in May 1863 at which delegates of the Seventh-day Adventists adopted a constitution and organized their General Conference. Printed in the church’s paper the following week.
The report says that the conference convened at Battle Creek on 20 May 1863 and lists the delegates by state: New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. It prints the constitution they adopted, whose preamble says that the delegates “hereby proceed to organize a General Conference” and whose first article names it the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. James White was chosen president and declined, and John Byington was elected in his place.
It is the meeting’s own record, published within a week. See the Millerites and the Great Disappointment.
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- 22 October 1844, firm date