Farewell Meetings After the Office Fire
While the calamity which so suddenly terminated the work of the Office brought with it the necessity of unanticipated farewells to the familiar life and associations of the place, it was not without taking counsel together and seeking divine guidance that the employees separated to take up new work in other spheres of activity. Three general meetings of the employees were held after the fire, at which they listened to words of counsel and good cheer from those standing at the head of the publishing work. Immediate care was taken to provide for any who might be in positions of financial embarrassment and to furnish employment for all who desired it in other lines of work. Farewell meetings were also held by the employees of the book-bindery department, and by those connected with the foundry. These were occasions for reviewing the past, and gathering hope and resolution for the future. The great majority of the Review and Herald family will, we believe, remain connected with the cause which the Office represented, and many will, we trust, find spheres of greater usefulness in the work than they had known before.