p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 31. (8/2/1906)

Earlier text: Financial Problems of Our Schools

Southern Camp-Meeting Plans

ELDER G. A. IRWIN left Washington Sunday evening for the South. After a short visit at Nashville and Graysville, Tenn., Brother Irwin will attend the camp-meetings in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Elder W. A. Colcord is attending the Virginia camp-meeting this week, and Elder K. C. Russell has gone South to assist in the camp-meetings of the Southern Union Conference, beginning in Louisiana.

Pacific Press Plant to Be Rebuilt

OUR latest information from California is to the effect that they are planning to rebuild the Pacific Press plant at Mountain View, “the new building to be of moderate size, and with room enough for denominational work only.” The two periodicals, The Signs of the Times and Our Little Friend, will for a time at least be printed in an outside office, probably at San Jose. Prompt measures have been adopted to provide the necessary books so that the canvassers may not be hindered in their work.

Destruction of the Pacific Press

By Editor

A LETTER from Brother M. C. Wilcox, the editor of The Signs of the Times, which is printed on the sixteenth page, gives full particulars concerning the destruction of the Pacific Press printing plant by fire, and will be read with painful interest. We can add nothing to what Brother Wilcox writes. We know that many prayers are being offered in behalf of our brethren and the work in California, and we can only leave it with the Lord to make clear what his will is, and to bring good out of what seems to be a great calamity.

Brother and Sister Wellman Visit America

BROTHER S. A. WELLMAN and his wife, from Trinidad, arrived in New York July 16, and spent two days in Washington. Brother Wellman is editor of the Caribbean Watchman, and manager of the Watchman Press Publishing Co. It has been seven years since Brother Wellman left the States for the West Indian field. It is hoped that he may attend some of the camp-meetings this fall and present the needs of his field to our people, and especially the great needs of their publishing plant. We are sure that our people will be more than glad to render this needy institution financial help. Brother and Sister Wellman are on a three months’ furlough, and we hope it will be a time of rest and real spiritual blessing to them. We were glad to see them looking so well, and to hear their cheering report of the work in the field where they are laboring.

Campbell Appointed to Levant Mission

Last week a letter was received from Elder M. N. Campbell, of the West Michigan Conference, in which he stated that he and his wife had given prayerful consideration to the suggestion of the General Conference Committee that he should act as superintendent of the Levant Mission field, and that they had arrived at a decision, and would accept the appointment. Brother Campbell has had a successful experience in various lines of field work, and is at present the vice-president of the West Michigan Conference. He is well qualified, both by natural ability and by training, for the position to which he has been appointed. He will be accompanied by his sister, Miss Janet Campbell, who has made an excellent record for several years as a teacher of church-schools. This party will plan to leave America in October, and will probably make their headquarters at Beirut, Turkey in Asia.

The Influence of Our Periodicals

Recently we sent a few copies of Life and Health to a lady in Nebraska for her two girls to sell. In going over the town with Life and Health a lady was found who had just read a copy of the Earthquake Special Signs of the Times, and the sixteen-year-old Life and Health worker spent nearly the whole day with her, helping her to understand the obligations of the Sabbath. She reported only a few copies of Life and Health sold, but instead, a new Sabbath-keeper and another interested. The mother and the two Life and Health workers recently came into the truth through reading the REVIEW. They have never heard a sermon by any of our ministers, nor had any communication with any of our people. In this instance Life and Health found three persons who came into the truth by reading the REVIEW, and these found a fourth party whom The Signs of the Times had impressed. The lesson teaches the importance of all our periodicals and our duty to circulate them.

A Good Example

APPRECIATING the value of Liberty, and recognizing the importance of educating public sentiment away from inculcated sentiments of National Reformism and back to the principles of true Christian and civil liberty, the church at Alma, Neb., has set apart August 18 for raising means to supply the leading men of that place with Liberty for the coming year.

If every church would follow the example of the church at Alma, there would soon be a perceptible change in the public mind, and the 'highway of the third angel's message would be materially cleared for more rapid progress and the speedy completion of the work.