ProNEERS AND BUILDERS
ing many matters of business for the new division conference.
This new organization, however, had almost no opportunity to
develop further in Europe. In a few short months the World
War came on, and the division conference ceased to function.
When the Adventist denomination came into the troubles and
perplexities of the World War, the question of division confer-
ences was considered again. It had become more and more
apparent that the plan of having full-fledged division confer-
ences was not advisable. At the next General Conference in
1918, in San Francisco, the European Division Conference was
dissolved, and Europe became again what it had been from 1907
to 1913, not a conference, but one of the great divisions of the
General Conference, With this, the idea of division conferences
fortunately came to an end, and the advent movement in all the
earth remained as one church and one message, all the union
conferences being represented on the General Conference Com-
General Conference officers at Darmstadt Council, 1928
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