Aid the Southern Publishing House
There are yet some of our brethren and sisters who remember the struggles to establish the Review and Herald Publishing House at Battle Creek, Mich. There are many more who personally know of the labor and sacrifice that was necessary in getting the Pacific Press Publishing House on a firm basis. Appeals were made to the brethren at large for both these institutions. Now there are thousands more than both the classes mentioned who personally and practically know nothing of sacrifice for either of these institutions, yet who owe their knowledge of the truth to these agencies. Their opportunity in the way of helping to establish a publishing house and lifting it above its infant struggles has now come. The institution claiming and deserving immediate financial aid is the Southern Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn. A new building is in course of construction, and a large amount of material for the work of printing and binding is needed at once. As all parts of the country have assisted the other houses in their infancy, it is but fair that those who can should assist this new and important work in the South. Certificates of stock have been issued, and may be purchased for $5.00 per share. Address Southern Publishing Company, 1025 Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tenn. “Church Finances” is the topic of a recent paper by Rev. Newton Wray, in which he makes a strong plea for “free, spontaneous giving on the part of ‘Christians.’” This idea is advanced as against the custom of soliciting the co-operation of worldly people in order to relieve Christians of their responsibility. He does not approve of “‘enticing the world ‘to furnish money which should come from the con- ‘secrated pocket-books of believers,” and argues that such work has “‘dried up the springs of benevolence ‘by substituting carnal attractions for the Gospel of ‘the grace of God.” Mr. Wray suggests that “‘the ‘recipients of the Gospel are to make at the altar ‘financial returns for its benefits, as a spiritual ‘response to the Gospel appeal, and never as a ‘matter of appetite, fancy, or selfish profit, as is the ‘case when the money of the world is secured by ‘means of catch-penny entertainments.”