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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

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CHRISTIANA, NORWAY.

By J. G. Matteson

The S. D. A. Building Association of Christiana held its first yearly meeting Jan. 28. The treasurer’s report showed the following:—
Receipts.
House-rent, Kr. 2,809.49
Shares, donations, and weekly contributions, 2,408.65
Rec’d in the contribution boxes, 748.28
Borrowed money to balance, 44.27
Total receipts, Kr. 6,010.69
Equal in American money to, $1,602.51
Expenditures.
Payments, interest and taxes, Kr. 3,295.56
Improvements on the building, 2,391.05
Fuel and incidentals, 324.08
Total, Kr. 6,010.69
The Printing Association consists of those brethren in America and Europe who in the providence of God have been instrumental in starting and sustaining the work. The Association is merely nominal, for it has not yet been organized. It has owned a printing office a little more than half a year. Tidernes Tegn was printed during the first quarter of 1879 as a four-page weekly. It commenced its career as a subscription paper April 1, with eight pages, and has since that time been published semi-monthly. No. 10, dated August 15, 1879, was the first number printed on our own press. We were inexperienced, and did not succeed so well at first; but we have tried to improve, and, by the help of God, we have succeeded. We now print 1,250 copies. We have also printed 36,000 signatures (of 16 pp.) of books and tracts during the year. Our press is but a hand-press; but we have now learned to use it so well that our papers and tracts are plain and readable. If needed, more than twice as much matter could be printed on this press.
The treasurer’s account for 1879 is as follows:—
Receipts.
On Tidernes Tegn, Kr. 1,654.17
“ tracts, pamphlets, and books, 959.42
“ Advent Tidende and Harolden, 68.93
“ donations, 1,774.40
“ job work, 16.50
“ borrowed—balance, 10.04
Total receipts, Kr. 4,483.46
Expenditures.
On labor, Kr. 1,341.36
“ stock, 1,144.61
“ fuel and incidentals, 279.43
“ machinery and type, 1,434.06
“ accounts, 284.00
Total expenditure, Kr. 4,483.46
$1,195.59
Inventory.
Value of machinery, type, etc., Kr. 1,400.00
Tracts 24,559 signatures, 736.77
Tidernes Tegn 6,185 copies, 309.25
Books and pamphlets, 193.42
Book accounts, 284.00
Total, Kr. 2,923.44
Indebtedness, Kr. 10.04
Increase, Kr. 2,913.40
$776.91
All the donations amount to Kr. 1,774.40. Consequently the office has with this capital earned Kr. 1,139 during the year. And this earning falls principally on the paper. The cost of the paper alone has been Kr. 1,037.61; and it has brought in Kr. 1,654.17 and papers left over worth Kr. 309.25.
Of the donations Kr. 1,359.00 have been received from the Danish Mission in America, Kr. 220.00 from the brethren in Chicago, and Kr. 195.40 from others.
Nothing has been done for the Scandinavian mission, that has helped to spread the truth more through the three kingdoms, than this printing work. And this would be still more the case if we could get a Swedish printer here and start a Swedish paper on the same scale as Tidernes Tegn.
We need more machinery and type, and money to put in stock. And we need also more laborers and colporters to bring the truth out. We believe the Lord will help us, and add his blessing to this small beginning, until here also a people may be prepared for the coming kingdom.
The sisters have tried to help the Building Association, and have collected, for work and by donations, Kr. 275.00 during the year.
The truth is preached, and is working on many minds. Sabbath evening, six souls were buried with Christ in baptism; afterward we had an interesting social meeting. Bro. Rosqvist is now here, and will help in preaching and selling tracts. I start to-morrow for Skien.
Feb. 10. J. G. MATTESON.