Gil Valentine

In keeping with Ellen White's counsel concerning the importance of caring for those who had "borne the heat of the battle" and needed support in their sunset years, denominational employers in the South Pacific Division…

The first of this two-part article told of a failed attempt in 1883 by the Adventist Church to adopt a church manual.

In this article, the author examines how the church addressed the need for a manual during the next 50 years…

Because "we have gotten along well... without a manual," declared the General Conference president, the church did not need one.

Other denominations might have developed a church manual as they reached "a certain magnitude" and saw…