A VISIT TO MOUNTAIN VIEW by Stephen Nelson Haskell

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 30, 1907

A VISIT TO MOUNTAIN VIEW.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

THURSDAY, Jan. 10, 1907, we visited Mountain View. This was the first time we had seen the new publishing house. Elders Cottrell and Wilcox conducted us all about the building, and we were pleased to meet some of our old friends from Battle Creek, and some whom we first met in Switzerland thirty years ago.

We were pleased with the new publishing house, and with the spirit of sacrifice of the workers in the building of it. Some who might obtain five dollars a day in other

places on the coast are working for one dollar a day and their board. The work is progressing nicely. The building is covered with corrugated iron and the walls are of the same material, only of a different pattern. The building is one story high, and the simplicity of the structure, and the architectural design will commend itself to every believer in the third angel's message. Not one cent is expended for show. The whole arrangement is both practical and useful.

So all institutions in God's work should be erected with the work they have to do in view. His people will rally to sustain them. We could but think this was one reason why such sacrificing labor was performed by the workmen. It seemed like old times when such men as Elders James White, Uriah Smith, Joseph Bates, and others felt they were amply sustained on seven dollars a week.

There was power in the message then that touched hearts. The leading thought then was, How can we best scatter the truth to the best advantage? We long for the same power again to revive the hearts of this people.

Let none of our brethren feel there is extra expense in the erection of the present building, for that is not the case as far as we could see. We are sure all of the friends of the cause will contribute for this work, even if it be at a sacrifice on their part.

We understand that the tithe of the church at this place, notwithstanding losses from the earthquake and fire, was over $5,000 last year, and their donations were in proportion.

Happy are such a people, whose God is the Lord! If those who are connected with the work of publishing the truth have the same self-sacrificing spirit as is now manifested in the erection of the building, it will beget in the hearts of the people the same spirit, and the influence of the brethren and sisters on this coast will be felt, as in former times, thruout the world. S. N. HASKELL.