Wanted by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 21, 1878

Wanted.

By James White

The Signs Office is in great want of means at this time. There are several reasons for this want.

1. We have been getting a heavy stock of paper for the Signs and for books, and paper makers must be paid promptly.

2. We are issuing about ten thousand copies of this paper, and a large share is sent to clubs and to tract societies who expect time. These should pay in advance if possible.

3. Several brethren who had money deposited at this Office have unexpectedly drawn it out.

These causes combined have produced a scarcity of funds which threatens to cripple the work. Now what is wanted is summed up in the following:—

1. Those who are in arrears for the Signs or for books should pay up. It may be but a little sum which each owes, but put the littles all together and the sum is large.

2. Those who have cash which they can command will confer a favor to let it to this Office, and take the Association’s note, with or without interest. The secretary informs us that the sum of $5,000 is needed at this time in order to do business properly and save the credit of the Office.

We do not wish to give the impression that the Pacific Press is failing to accomplish what has been hoped and represented. No, the work moves on successfully. But those unacquainted with the business can form no just ideas of the amount invested in stock, and books. We are doing what we can to make the work a success, and urgently invite the friends of the cause to stand by us as we labor in this glorious cause. JAMES WHITE.