New Office by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1875

New Office.

By John Norton Loughborough

The engine room for our new printing office is done, except plastering. The frame of the main building is up, and is nearly enclosed with rustic siding. The roof is being rapidly put on. It is expected that the Office will be ready to receive the press and engine in four weeks, and that the plans of Bro. White, formerly published, relative to tent meetings in San Francisco this fall, and a special effort there this winter in a new meeting-house, with meetings that shall be fully and freely advertised on a press of our own, will soon be a reality.

It can be but a matter of rejoicing to our people everywhere, especially on this coast, as they witness the prosperity that is attending our Office enterprise. It has been necessary to borrow means to bring the work where it is, and although this has been done without interest, the money itself will have to be paid ere long. We have done this that our brethren might have time to realize something from their crops, as many expected to do, before paying their pledges.

Harvest is now nearly passed, and soon your crops will be disposed of, and we shall confidently expect that our California brethren, with that promptness which has usually marked their payment of pledges, will give us a good lift on their pledges during the months of July and August, so that we may be prepared to meet some heavy obligations that mature about the first of September. J. N. L.