4 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER
A new book, entitled, Home and
Health,"
made up ready for electrotyping.
nearly all set, and 320 prges
Christian Kdueation Reader No, 3. S00
nearly all set, and 1500 pages
pages,
made up,
Christian Bdueation Reader Noo a, 900
pages, nearly all vor.
A new book entitled, + Making Home
Peaceful,’ 232 pages.
Spanish Coming King,” 332 pages,
all set and mecde up.
Spanish Gospel Primer,” 128 pages,
nearly finished.
Our Saviour, IN
finished.
Spanish to Christ
pages, nearly
We have in plates, ready to be printed,
the following:
Bible Nature Study, 212 pages;
timony Vol. 1, 724 Testimony
Vol. 2, 736 Vol, 3.
HU4 pages; Testimony Volo 4, 678 pages.
Within a few
printing a 16,000 edition of “Great Cone
Tes
Pages;
pages; Testimony
dvs we shall begin
plates are al
20,000
[lectrotype
ready in Also, a
of *¢ Heralds of the Morning" in
troversy.’’
hand. edition
ling
lish.
In addition to the work in hand and
hooks printed here at the home office, as
mentioned above, we have issued the tol
lowing hooks from eastern publishing
houses,
13.000 “Heralds of the
and 7,000 copies of Ct Grent
copres of
Morning,
Controversy, printed and bound
Kansas City,
3.000 C¢Steps to Christ” in Spanish,
printed at Nashville, Tenn. by the South:
crn Publishing Company.
The International Publishing Associa
tion at College View, Nebo has in hand
the following.
Typesetting and making of electrotype
plates of +“ ileralds of the Morning’ in
the Swedish language, and “Christ Our
Saviour in German, Danish, and Swed:
ish. We wanted them to set the type and
make electrotype plates of Heralds of
Danish,
the Morning’ in German and
but they were so crowded with other
work that they could not get them out
in time to meet the demand, so we are
going to undertake this work here at the
home office.
Spanish Publications
We have asked
of issuing publications in
been to take charge
the Spanish
Linguage in this country, and now have
in hand the tollowing books:
Our Nao
Ning, "Christ
Coming
viour, T ttGospel Primer,” and negotia-
tions ave pending for issuing New Tes:
Primer’
School Text Books
tament in Spanish.
We have also taken the responsthility
of issue text books tor our chureh
schools and colleges, and 0 graded series
of readers 1s now in hand, Three of
the readers are ready for delivery, and
others will follow soon. These hooks have
received the highest commendation from
our leading educators, and we think they
ol
will prove a great blessing to our schools,
Cost of Material
You are well aware that the price of
almost every commodity has advanced
very materially during the past vear, and
we want to call vour attention to the faet
that it ix just the same with all material
which enters into the making of a book.
Yaper, binders’ material, ete. have ad
vaneed
from fifty to one hundred per
going up. We
ar-loadd
cent, and prices ave still
cian hot secure a quotation on a
of paper which will hold good tor more
than forty-eight hours,
Seeing this condition of things, other
publishers have been foreed to raise the
prices of their publications, and we are
warranted ino doing the same. It is our
purpose to place the retail price of all
new books that we issue at a figure where
there will be some profit to all parties
<alled upon to handle them. In the past,
many of our publications have heen han
dled at a loss to the publishing house,
Commercial Work
We hive strietly adhered to the ae
tion of the directors and vote of the
stockholders in discarding all commercial
work. Not
done
one job ot this kind has
heen since the action was taken,
although we have heen urged to do so
repeatedlive Our entire office force are
now eiving their whole time and atten-
vo
ton to denominational work, and he
Lord has set This seal of approval to
this by giving us the sympathy ot our
people everywhere, and their hearty co.
operation in the circulation of our Ii
Never
with the success they
erature, bhetore have our can-
VASSOrS niet have
the past season, Girls and boys without
previous experience have made remarks
ble records, and our sales hove nearly
doubled,
Our schools and colleges ave filled with
bright, active voung people. and many of
them have their minds rarned toward the
The
Very encouraging,
canvassing work, outlook for the
Coming vear is
Finances
i Al :
Fhe great calamity that came to the
Pacific: Press seems to have touched
tender cord in the hearts of all our peo-
ple. Many who have had money here on
deposit have donated the interest for
one or two years, and some have given
Others
have deposited money with us without in
terest, and nearly all have signified their
willingness to reduce the vate to four per
wopart of the principal as well,
cent or less,
A few years ago our interest-bearing
debt amounted to nearly 200.000. This
has been reduced until now it is onlv
about £119,000), and, according to the
treasurer's report, we have cash on hand
with which to take up notes to the ex
tent of thirty or forty thousand dollars
more,
We have
little
had hoped that this entire amount might
sold our Oakland
over £66,000
properts
For a ash, and we
be applied on the interest-hearing debi.
At the special meeting of the stock.
holders held last September, our balance
deficit of over %13.000,
Through the reclamation of machiery,
sheet showed a
advance in the price of our Oakland real
estate, cash discounts, ote. the defiein
has been reduced to about %1.000,
During the last four months the home
office shows a net loss of $2,667.45 in op-
crating expenses, but this is not to he
wondered at in view of the great dis
advantages under which we have lnbored.
[ndeed, we are surprised that the loss
is not greater,
Our Portland
hranehes have helped us out so that the
Kansas City and
balance is on the right side of the ledger.
The institution as a
gain of $991.36.
whole shows a net
AS soon as we get into our new build
ig the departments can be so arranged
and reorganized as to save materially in
the operating expenses,
“Signs of the Times”
Statisties have demonstrated that the
Nigns of the Times 1s one of the most
elective agencies we have for bringing
people into the truth. During the past
few weeks we have been studying to see
how we could make it still more efficient
work, At the
close of this meeting we desire to place
for general missionary
im vour hands a little booklet showing