THE exhibit of the Pacific Press Publishing Association in the Liberal Arts section of the Palace of Machinery, at the recent Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, California, attracted much favorable attention.
The central feature of this exhibit was an enormous world globe, accurately marked and colored, and driven slowly by an electric motor. The surface of this globe was studded with tiny electric lights, in four different colors, which lighted up almost every country in the world. They represented our branches and affiliated houses, together with some of the leading mission stations and other institutions using our publications,—red for publishing houses, blue for sanitariums, green for colleges and academies, and white for mission stations and headquarters in foreign lands. Photographs of these institutions were conveniently arranged on swinging leaves at the rear of the globe, and were a source of special interest to visitors from other countries.
At the other end of this booth a large ten-wing display fixture carried samples of publications in forty-four of the ninety-two languages in which this house and its associated plants are printing. Hundreds of large volumes in English and the leading European languages were grouped in sectional cases at the rear. Among those which have had phenomenal sales are “Bible Readings for the Home Circle,” published in six different languages, with a sale of more than a million and a quarter copies; “Great Controversy” and “Christ Our Saviour,” devotional books, nearly half a million each; “Daniel and the Revelation,” a 900-page exposition of Bible prophecies, more than two hundred thousand; while “Heralds of the Morning” and “Practical Guide to Health” have each had a sale of more than one hundred thousand.
The leading periodical of this institution, the SIGNS OF THE TIMES in English, was grouped with its associate periodicals published in different countries and languages, as given above.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES English (Published at Mountain View, California)
SIGNS OF THE TIMES English (Published at Warburton, Vict., Australia)
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Bengali Juga Lakhyan
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Chinese Shi Djao Yeuh Bao
SIGNS OF THE TIMES French Les Signes des Temps
SIGNS OF THE TIMES German Die Zeichen der Zeit
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Hindu (No English equivalent)
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Holland Teekenen des Tijds
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Polish Znaki Czasu
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Roumanian Semnele Timupului
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Servian Snazi Wremena
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Spanish Las Señales de los Tiempos
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Urdu (No English equivalent)
A beautiful booklet telling of our work and belief, and filled with photographs of our institutions, had been prepared for those sufficiently interested to leave their names and addresses. About 3,500 have been sent out in response to such requests. There are a few copies remaining, which will be sent out on receipt of ten cents in stamps.
The Pacific Press was fortunate in securing Elder and Mrs. Snyder to attend to the exhibit work. As they speak Spanish and German as well as English, and can converse to some extent in Italian and French, the booth had an international atmosphere that was quite in harmony with the work it represented. They distributed over 11,000 periodicals and 12,000 tracts, the influence of which no one can measure.
The open grate, the library table and reading lamp, the easy chairs and abundance of reading matter, have all contributed to give the exhibit a quiet, restful effect, which has been greatly enjoyed by thousands of visitors.
