Our Funds by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 30, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 34.

Our Funds

By Editor

We are grateful that our readers are remembering our needy fields. Our next month's report will we expect show a decided gain for the China press and the Tokyo church fund. In our last China mail, Dr. Selmon writes but not for publication:

“We are just finishing the largest edition of our paper that we have ever put out. We have orders for the whole issue of twenty-two thousand. The average monthly issue of the paper for the first six months of this year is almost two and a half times the average monthly issue of last year. We have installed a small gas-engine, and so can get twice as much work out of our presses as formerly; but notwithstanding this we can not do the work. We are working under serious difficulties in an old Chinese building, and can not print fast enough now to supply the demand. Our literature sales are growing; and if the growth continues at anything like the present rate, I do not know what we will do in six months more. The news just received, that we can not expect any funds to start our printing work this year, makes us sick at heart. The demand for literature containing the message for this time grows apace, while our facilities for providing literature for a field of over four hundred thirty millions is still limited to a Diamond cylinder press (hand-power series) that takes a form 20 by 29, and two job-presses.”

Do not these simple facts clutch your heart? Our readers will help on this press, we know they will.

One poor sister shows the spirit of true sacrifice and helpfulness. With a heart for $30,000 she sends what she calls her “meager thirty cents,” dividing it among the China press, the Tokyo church, and fruit for India. God bless her abundantly according to her motive, for so He measures gifts rather than by quantity. The China press fund is still open.