With this information the committee began prayerfully to look about Washington, when a third letter came containing this instruction: “We have been praying for light regarding the location of our work in the East, and light has come to us in a very decided way. Positive light has been given me that there will be offered to us for sale places upon which much money has been expended by men who had money to use freely. The owners of these palaces die, or their attention is called to some other object, and the property is offered for sale at a very low price.... GSAM 460.2
“From the light given me, I know that, for the present, the headquarters of the Review and Herald should be near Washington.” GSAM 460.3