Equipment Donated Foreign Offices
Expression of Appreciation from Leading Workers FOR a number of years, it has been the privilege of the Pacific Press to unite with our Foreign Mission Board in supplying equipment for our printing offices in Africa, India, China, Japan, and elsewhere in the foreign fields. Early in 1914, we were able to send a number of thousand dollars’ worth of machinery to some of those fields. That this work has been appreciated is evident from the utterances of some of our leading men who are on the ground. We quote the following from an article that appeared in the “Eastern Tidings,” published at Lucknow, India: “Doubtless all the readers of the Eastern Tidings are aware of the generosity of the Pacific Press Publishing Association in giving to our printing office, first a Cottrell cylinder press in the year 1912, and again at the first of this year a large lithograph press. We have just received word that they have granted our request for a type caster of the latest pattern, which will cost about $1,500. This makes our office one of the best equipped in this part of India, and will make it possible to put out with dispatch our ever-increasing work. “The Pacific Press has also extended its liberality in helping to equip our printing offices in China, Japan, Korea, and Mexico. “We are deeply grateful to our brethren of the Pacific Press for their gifts, and know that they will rejoice with us to learn how greatly it is aiding us in putting the printed pages filled with hope and salvation before India’s millions who sit in darkness. May God continue to prosper that institution, and greatly bless those connected with it who have willingly deprived themselves of needed equipment that they might help those who are in greater need and who face the difficult task of giving the final message of warning to the millions in heathen and Mohammedan lands. H. R. Salisbury.” Brother L. V. Finster, superintendent of our work in the Philippine Islands, writes: “I am glad to tell you that the paper cutter and Boston wire stitcher which you so generously donated to this field have arrived in perfect order. They are now both in service in our office, and we appreciate very much your help in our work here.” “I am glad to tell you also that our mission home is now under way. We hope to be able to move into it in about a month.61 “The work is moving ahead here very fast. Last month was our banner month in book sales. We are having good attendance at nearly all our meetings.”