In an announcement covering eleven type-written pages, the Union Conference Publishing Committee of the Australasian Union Conference give full particulars concerning the reorganization of the publishing work in that field and the removal of the printing plant to the country. The location selected is the town of Warburton, forty-eight miles east of Melbourne, on the Upper Yarra River. The climate of the place is described as “beautiful and mild,” and the land as “excellent.” The plan is to purchase “a portion of an estate comprising three hundred and twenty-eight acres of land, about half cleared.” The water for domestic purposes and for supplying power to the factory will be conveyed from a natural falls, about seven hundred feet from the proposed location of the factory. The machinery and material from the present printing plant will be removed to the new factory as soon as it is built. The work will hereafter be conducted by a new corporation called “The Signs of the Times Missionary Association.” This association has a denominational constituency very similar to the original constituency of the Review and Herald Publishing Association. After the removal of the plant to the country, commercial work will be largely dropped, and the effort of the association will be directed to the printing and publishing of the denominational literature. We are deeply interested in this reorganization of the publishing work in Australia, and hope the efforts of our fellow workers in that field to carry out the instruction of the spirit of prophecy concerning this work will be greatly blessed, and that their work will be more prosperous than ever.
Thirty-Sixth General Conference Session
THE first meeting of the thirty-sixth session of the General Conference will be held in Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., beginning at 10:30 A. M., May 11, 1905.
Pacific Press Building Dedication
THE new buildings of the Pacific Press Publishing Co. at Mountain View, Cal., will be dedicated with appropriate services, Sabbath and Sunday, April 15 and 16.
Anderson Ordained for Gospel Ministry
Just before Brother W. H. Anderson and family left Washington for far Barotseland, an ordination service was held in the Mission Board rooms, in which Brother Anderson was set apart for the full work of the gospel ministry.
First Foreign Delegate to Arrive
So far as we have been informed, Elder G. A. Irwin, of Australia, is the first delegate to the General Conference from a foreign field who has reached America. Brother Irwin arrived in San Francisco March 16, having come via China, the Philippines, and Japan.
Advertising Sabbath Meetings
The workers in Boston are distributing through the mail copies of “An Appeal to Clergy,” printing upon the outside of the envelope a striking advertisement of Sunday night meetings in Berkeley Hall, at which the Sabbath question would be considered. We commend this as an effective method of advertising.
Reagan Family Returns to India
LAST week we had the pleasure of greeting Brother J. H. Reagan and family in Washington. They are returning to India, and to their work in the Calcutta Sanitarium after eight or nine months' furlough in America, most of which time has been spent in Battle Creek, in getting special work at the sanitarium. Brother Reagan became acquainted with the truth in the early days of the work in Calcutta. Sister Reagan (nee Ida Royer) went to India as a nurse about five years ago.
Pitcairn Island Cutter Wrecked
By Editor
OUR readers will remember that regular communication between Pitcairn Island and the outside world was established a while ago by means of a small sailing vessel plying between Pitcairn Island and other islands of the South Pacific. We exceedingly regret to announce that this boat has been wrecked, with the loss of one of the crew.
The following item, which has been forwarded to us by Brother B. R. Nordyke, of the Pacific Press, states the facts in the briefest form:—
The islanders have lost their cutter in which they traded with Tahiti. Only one man was drowned, but they lost everything; cargo, clothes, nautical instruments, and books are all gone. I am trying to raise a fund to assist. [Signed] Edward Stubbs, Capt., Royal Navy, 9 Oriel Chambers, Water Street, Liverpool, England.
A Replacement Boat for Pitcairn
By Editor
We shall hope to hear further particulars of this unfortunate occurrence in due time, and we shall certainly be gratified if the efforts of Captain Stubbs should result in furnishing another boat to take the place of the one which has been lost.
They Must Have It
By Editor
It is evident from letters received at this office that some of our people are in close circumstances financially. Some write that they like the REVIEW, feel that they need it, but they can not afford to subscribe for it.
Others who at first decided that they must do without the paper have since determined that they must have it, because this year it is to contain the only full and complete reports of the next General Conference.
Some subscriptions expire during April and May. Please look at the date on the wrapper of your REVIEW, and send in renewal promptly if yours expires soon.
There is general satisfaction everywhere because the REVIEW is to be the official organ this year for the publication of the reports of the General Conference.
Washington, D. C.
By J. S. Washburn
WE have received on the Washington building fund, up to the present time, $62,256.41, as will be seen on page 20. This leaves $37,743.59, which can be raised before the meeting of the General Conference, May 11.
We call attention to the following words which are from a Testimony dated March 6:—
“Let our ministers arouse, and fully realize the importance of the situation. Let the work in Washington become a matter of the first interest now. Let every believer in every place feel called upon to help. Let all feel that the work in Washington belongs to them, and let them do their utmost toward its advancement.”
“Come to the front, my brethren and sisters, with your gifts and offerings. Awake to the responsibilities of the hour. We plead with the Lord to work upon minds, and to lead those who have means to realize that now is their time to help liberally in a most important crisis.”