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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 2, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 31.

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The Publishing Department

By William C. White

RECENTLY there has been a great increase of interest throughout the United States, and especially on the Pacific Coast, in the study of religious literature. And from foreign lands there come many demands for new books on various phases of present truth. In Spanish-speaking countries especially there has been a great awakening.
One of the results of these encouraging conditions at home and abroad, is an ever-increasing demand upon the officers of the Publishing Department for help in the way of suggestions, criticisms, and counsel regarding plans to be developed in our numerous publishing houses.
The twenty-one members of the departmental committee are widely separated. Six are union conference canvassing agents; eight are managers of publishing houses; five members are located in Washington, D. C.; and four are in California; the others are scattered throughout the field.
Meetings of the full committee are held not oftener than once a year, and for this reason much responsibility devolves upon the chairman and the secretaries. During the past year or two, the greater burden of the work has been borne by the secretaries, Brethren E. R. Palmer and H. H. Hall.
Recently, I found that the work was increasing rapidly, and that Brethren Palmer and Hall needed the help that Brother C. H. Jones could give them. Therefore I resigned, and C. H. Jones has been chosen by the General Conference Committee, at its recent meeting in Washington, to be chairman of this departmental committee.
Brother C. H. Jones brings to this work ability and knowledge gained during thirty-five years of successful experience as printer and publisher, and manager of denominational enterprises, and he takes up this work with a deep sense of its importance. His location in Mountain View, Cal., makes it possible for the officers of the department to meet often for counsel.
At recent meetings of the departmental officers, far-reaching plans for the strengthening of the publishing work in the Orient and in South American countries, were considered; and, with the concurrence of Elders Irwin and Cottrell, it was proposed that a meeting of the Publishing Department be held in Washington, D. C., in October.
W. C. WHITE.