Fifty People Wanted

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 17, 1901

Fifty People Wanted

who will each pay for twenty shares of stock in the Southern Publishing Association; this fund to be used in purchasing stock of paper and machinery equipment, so that this office may do the work for which it was established. The shares are five dollars each, and entitle the holder to one vote for each share at all stockholder’s meetings. No financial benefit will accrue to any one holding stock in this association, as the stock is non-dividend paying.

We wish to acknowledge receipt of the money that has been paid in for stock, and the donations which have come to us during the past few weeks. Without these funds we would have been obliged to stop the work entirely; but we are thankful that God has impressed hearts to send means so that we are enabled to go forward with the work on the building. Enough has come in each week to meet all our expenses, and pay for the material purchased. Considerable work yet remains to be done on the building, as only a part of the windows are in, and only a portion of the partitions have been set. The doors will also need to be provided, and a small elevator installed, and some of the rooms will have to be sheeted inside. We shall not undertake to plaster any part of the building, but will use building paper and sheeting to keep out the cold.

Our presses have been in operation a part of the time while the building has been in the course of construction. Work in other departments has also been carried on as the circumstances would permit. The building is now so far advanced that the machinery can be kept in operation continuously; but to do this we must have a stock of paper, and some additional machinery with which to turn out the work. It is for that purpose that this appeal is made, and we trust that all may sense the unfavorable circumstances under which we are laboring, and respond as the Lord may impress their hearts. If there are those who cannot take twenty shares, and wish to assist in this work, let such subscribe for the amount of stock they are able to take, and the funds will be used to help forward the work yet to be done on the building.

We are trying to carry forward the work in the most economical manner possible, and we have evidences of the Lord’s approval of what has been accomplished. We are doing the best we can, brethren, with the means at our disposal, and we have confidence that the Lord will impress those who are able, to help at this time by uniting with us in our effort to carry out His instructions respecting this work.

The following-named persons have each subscribed for twenty shares of stock in the association:— George B. Thomson, Star Prairie, Wis. Mrs. Carrie Thompson, Lacon, Ill. Address all communications to the Southern Publishing Association, 1025-27 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn.