THE PACIFIC COAST by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 20, 1879

THE PACIFIC COAST.

By James White

Much labor and means have been expended on the Pacific coast. Oakland, Cal., is a beautiful city of 45,000 inhabitants. In the center of this city is our Pacific Publishing House. On that goodly building is a gilt-sign, “The Pacific Press.” In that building are eight presses moved by steam, first-class printing material, complete bindery and type-foundry. Oakland and San Francisco will ever be regarded as the head-quarters of the cause on the Pacific slope.

The California Conference is without an acting president, for reasons we will not here explain. At the session of the General Conference last October, it was decided that Elder E. W. Farnsworth should take the California field. He will probably go there immediately after the General Conference meets, April 17. And there are reasons why Elder S. N. Haskell should spend at least six months in the Pacific coast States and Territories:—

1. That is a grand missionary field. There is a reading, thinking population where men move slowly and cautiously in religious matters. There very much must and will be accomplished with our periodicals and general publications; and as Bro. Haskell is eminently qualified for this important work, and has not labored in this vast field, it seems very proper and necessary that the cause there should have the benefit of his labors.

2. Eld. Haskell is a practical man, and knows how to lift at the great financial wheel, where and when the load moves heavily. The debts must be lifted from the Oakland house of worship, and from the Pacific Press during the year 1879, and our people on the Pacific coast need his counsel and labors.

3. Bro. H. is one of God’s humble working-men, and will be of inestimable value to the cause on the Pacific coast as a practical preacher and laborer.

JAMES WHITE.