p. 216 | THE PACIFIC COAST by James White

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 1, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 14

THE PACIFIC COAST.

By James White

The work upon the Pacific coast has been pushed forward rapidly, calling for great sacrifice on the part of the comparatively few supporters of the work there. Eastern brethren have raised not much less than $20,000 to send the first missionaries there with their cotton church, to pay for the types, presses, and other material to thoroughly furnish the Pacific Press, and to pay the railroad fare of those speakers who have taken the long journey to the coast. This was necessary and right, up to a time when the cause on the coast had gathered sufficient strength to sustain itself.

And now, as more laborers are wanted upon the Pacific coast, and as some of our feebler Eastern ministers need the change, the brethren in California, Oregon, and Washington come nobly up to the work, and offer to pay the fare of these ministers to the coast, and support them there, provided they remain, and are devoted and successful laborers, for the period of two or three years. We are in receipt of a letter from Eld. Haskell which entirely relieves this matter from all doubt.

There are debts upon the Pacific Press, partly in consequence of the local managers not making the great object for which the press was established the very first thing in all their efforts. With the blessing of God, the efforts to be immediately made to create an extensive market for our periodicals and publications throughout the Pacific coast States and Territories, will give the Office legitimate work, and will raise up patrons and supporters of the Signs of the Times, and other publications printed at the Pacific Press. There should be not less than four Tract and Missionary Institutes during the next winter. Through the efforts of the tract societies, and the labors of the ministers who shall make that their field for the next two or three years, the debts now resting upon the Pacific Press may be lifted, and the precious cause upon the Pacific slope be freed from all its financial embarrassments. J. W.