A Contemplated Change

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jan 14, 1904

A Contemplated Change

The following paragraph which we take from The Signs of the Times, will be read with interest:—

For years the management of the Pacific Press Publishing Company have felt that the land now occupied by their publishing house is too valuable, and land surface too cramped in the heart of a large city in a residence district, for factory purposes, and that it was wisdom in many ways to seek some rural place where land was less valuable, where homes in healthy surroundings could be secured by employees, with space sufficient for gardens, fruit trees, and breathing room; and where shipping advantages would be good. Such a place has been found and secured in the village of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, thirty-nine miles south of San Francisco, a place which combines many of the advantages of the city with the benefits of a healthy country life. We shall say more about this in the future, and shall have plenty of time to say it, as we shall not be able to move the plant until next summer. We believe that God has guided in this move, and we are sure our friends will be glad to congratulate us. We wish their prayers still, that the same kind Father may be over us in the establishment of the plant, and all that is incidental to it or connected with it.

The instruction which has been given with much clearness concerning the location of our institutions emphasizes the advisability of going to the country with them, and it will certainly be a good move in this direction if the close of the present year shall find both the Pacific Press and the Review and Herald, the two leading publishing houses of the denomination, well settled in new quarters with rural surroundings. There is doubtless more meaning than we now see in this counsel to avoid the large cities in selecting homes for our institutions, but by following the counsel we shall be prepared for what the future may bring to us. We congratulate our co-workers of the Pacific Press on the action which they have taken.