New Office Building by John Nevins Andrews

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1870

New Office Building.

By John Nevins Andrews

IN the REVIEW, Vol. 35, No. 26, Bro. White has spoken of the necessity of an additional building for the business of the Publishing Association. His statement of the case cannot but be satisfactory to the friends of this cause. Yet I esteem it a privilege to use the earliest opportunity to add a few words expressive of my interest in this matter. I have had sufficient opportunity to become very fully acquainted with the crowded condition of our Office of publication. Every part of the Office has become so crowded with work that the erection of a new building has become a matter of necessity. Our work is rapidly increasing in the publishing department, and this is our most efficient agency for the promulgation of the present truth. We cannot therefore afford to suffer our Office of publication to be straitened for room or for means to carry forward its work. We do not lack strength as a people to raise the necessary sum for the new Office building. And our people do not lack confidence in the work to cause them to hesitate in freely giving of their substance for this important enterprise.

The work at Battle Creek is to me very sacred, because I believe it to be the work of God. I therefore feel an interest in it which I do not feel in any business matters of my own. The proposition to erect a second building is one which I have well considered for some months past, and it has my hearty approval.

J. N. ANDREWS.