The Printed Page Shall Fall as the Autumn Leaves by W. A. R.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 18, 1906

“The Printed Page Shall Fall as the Autumn Leaves”

By W. A. R.

These words of prophecy are being fulfilled in Chicago at present. About six months ago Elder Wm. Covert, president of the Northern Illinois Conference, started a movement to purchase a small printing plant. This was successful; and the plant is located at present in the basement of the South Side (Forty-sixth Street) church, where the work is done. Pledges were made for the purchasing of the plant first; then pledges were asked for the furnishing of necessary supplies, such as electricity, paper, stock, ink, etc. A sufficient sum was realized to carry the work through the camp-meeting in Chicago, these pledges being monthly pledges of one dollar each. The mechanical work is being done by Brethren M. Ashdon and W. A. Ross, who have volunteered their services to the cause. These brethren go to the plant on Sundays and do whatever work is on file, and during the past ten weeks have done over two hundred dollars’ worth of work for the conference at the actual cost of material. The work done consists of thousands of tracts, invitations, and dodgers for the Chicago camp-meeting, and they are now engaged in similar work for the Galesburg camp-meeting. When these meetings are over, the full force of the plant will be used in printing tracts for free distribution all over Chicago, and that very wicked city will be surely and thoroughly warned by the printed page.

These brethren claim a threefold blessing in this work: it is done with a plant consecrated wholly to God, in a building consecrated to God, and God’s special blessing is asked on the work each day before labor is begun. W. A. R.