The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 21, 1907

The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By I. H. Evans

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Publishing House in Port of Spain, Trinidad

This little publishing house is one of the youngest in our denomination, and one that has been put up largely by the sacrifice and self-denial of those in the field. This institution is a small cement building, with six-inch walls, about twelve feet in height, sixteen by forty-five feet in dimensions. It has ventilation really on but one side, and on that side stands the Seventh-day Adventist church. The roof, which is partly of galvanized iron and partly terra-cotta, is subject to the scorching rays of the tropical sun. Port of Spain is only ten degrees north of the equator, and the city is surrounded, except on one side, by mountains, so that it gets comparatively little breeze, and the employees of the office are exposed to the most intense heat. They did not have the money with which to buy a lot backing up against this building, and the General Conference Committee has authorized them to purchase the said lot, so that they could open up their printing plant, and have ventilation through the same.

This little plant is sending out the Caribbean Watchman, one of the ablest missionary periodicals printed by our denomination. It has supported itself from the very start, and has maintained a monthly circulation of about seven thousand five hundred copies.

I. H. EVANS.