The New Office by J. E. Waggoner

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1875

The New Office.

By J. E. Waggoner

COMMENCING WORK.

For some time our rented rooms on the corner of Twelfth and Broadway were much too small for the carrying on of the work of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES with any degree of comfort. Hence we have for several weeks been looking with no small degree of interest on the progress of the carpenters who were erecting the new Office on Castro street between Eleventh and Twelfth.

By an effort on the part of carpenters, plasterers, and painters, two commodious rooms were completed before the rest of the building, and pronounced ready for occupancy, Friday, Aug. 27, which day was devoted to moving material and getting ready for the work of the coming week.

Before commencing work in the new building it seemed appropriate to invoke the blessing of the Giver of every good gift upon this branch of his work in which we are especially engaged, and to thank him for his prospering hand which has seemed to direct ever since its first establishment upon this Coast. It was started in a very humble manner in two small rented rooms on the second floor. Now we were to commence work in perhaps the finest Office building upon the Pacific Coast.

So Last Sunday morning as we were about to commence work, all hands, including carpenters, painters, and printers, assembled in the type room while Bro. Charles Jones read the second chapter of Titus and offered a prayer for the blessing of God upon the work carried on, and upon the hands engaged in the work.

To us who had been accustomed to commence our week's work in this manner in the Michigan Office, it seemed like the revival of a precious season, and we went about the work of the week with the assurance that God would sustain and prosper this branch of his work, and would bless those who were conscientiously endeavoring to push it forward. We earnestly request the prayers of all of God's people upon this enterprise.

J. E. W.