Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association.
IN accordance with notice the Eighth Annual Meeting of the shareholders of the above Association was held at the office of the Pacific Press on Monday, April 23, 1883. After prayer, the President, Eld. S. N. Haskell, named W. A. Pratt, Wm. Butcher, and Elder J. D. Rice, a Committee on Nomination, and Elder J. H. Waggoner, Elder W. M. Healey, and E. A. Chapman a Committee on Resolutions. The meeting was then adjourned to the church, where on reassembling it was found that 869 shares were represented by stockholders present, and 1,349 by proxy; in all 441 shares more than the number required to constitute a quorum. The minutes of the last meeting having been read and approved, the Secretary submitted the revenue account and balance sheet for the year ending March 31, 1883. Elder Haskell, Elder Waggoner, C. H. Jones, and W. C. White spoke with regard to the working of the past year. The Committee on Nominations submitted the following names to the meeting: S. N. Haskell, M. C. Israel, C. H. Jones, Wm. Saunders, and W. C. White. These persons upon being duly ballotted for were elected as directors for the ensuing year. Elder J. H. Waggoner was then elected Editor, E. J. Waggoner Assistant Editor, and Elders J. N. Andrews and Uriah Smith Corresponding Editors of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES for the next year. Elder S. N. Haskell, W. C. White, and Elder J. H. Waggoner were elected to act as a Publishing Committee. The meeting then adjourned till 2.30 and being convened at that hour, the Committee on Resolutions handed in the following, which were duly submitted to the meeting and unanimously voted: Resolved (1) That we renew the expression of our gratitude to Divine Providence for the prosperity of our cause in connection with the publishing work, during the past year, and hereby renew our pledge to sustain the work by our means and our prayers. (2) That we recognize the necessity of possessing extensive publishing facilities, and the late issue over the Sunday Law, wherein it was found necessary to defend our civil and religious rights, and to uphold the truth of the commandment of God, by publishing a special edition of the SIGNS, has fully proved that it was in the direct providence of God that the office was established on its present basis. (3) That, in answer to inquiries on this subject, we recommend to our people to use the publishing house as a safe place of deposit for money. (4) That we recommend to our brethren to give more attention to a resolution passed last year, in the following words, to wit:— Resolved, That we deem it our duty to employ every means in our power to set a knowledge of this truth before the people, and that we recommend that special attention be paid to the circulation of our denominational books during the coming year, and that proper persons be employed to canvass the country for such works as "Thoughts on Daniel and Revelation," "History of the Sabbath," "Constitutional Amendment," and other works calculated to create an interest in the "Third Angel's Message." The meeting was then adjourned. W. K. VICKERY, Secretary.