European Press by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 11, 1878

European Press.

By James White

SOME two years since we made a call for $10,000 to establish the press in Europe. The friends of the cause have responded nobly. The sum is nearly made up. This amount is to be used for no other purpose but is to be appropriated to the purchase of a complete printing establishment.

W. C. White and his wife have fully decided to go to Europe to oversee this work. This decision is in harmony with the mind of the recent General Conference. Probably no man among us is so well qualified for this work as W. C. White. He did design to study the French and German languages, which is very desirable for any one visiting Europe. But in this he makes a great sacrifice. He has left the Battle Creek College and has gone into the Review Office to master the trade, so as to be able when landing in Europe to purchase the best presses, put them in running order, and run them himself until he can educate others to fill the position.

We copy the following statement made in the Signs nearly two years since:—

"The want of a press to be owned and controlled by S. D. Adventists in Switzerland, on which tracts in many languages may be printed and scattered by thousands through the different countries of Europe, seems to be daily increasing; and we are glad that the prospect is, that such a press will soon be running."

We now urge that others also who would esteem it a privilege to own each one hundred dollars in the European press come forward immediately and make up the complete sum of $10,000. The money can be forwarded to Review and Herald, Battle Creek, Mich. JAMES WHITE.