As We Set Forth is the story of the men and women who founded, in Battle Creek, the  first Seventh-day Adventist institution of higer learnin in 1874. Battle Creek College was established so that, as WEllen G. Whites said, “… yout … may be so educated as to exert an influence for God in the World.”  This is the story of the board of trustees, who met for five unbereably hot dayts n July of 1901 on he banks of the St. Joseph River in Berrien Sprins, to decide the future of Battle Creek College. They afirned their ideals and principles in the name they chose for the new school n the new place – Emmanuel Missionary College, “God With Us.”