The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-04-17
OUR DENOMINAe
TIONAL PRINTING.
(From the Sunday School Monitor.)
CHAPTER III.
BY D. A. Hart.

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CHAPTER III.
BY D. A. Hart.
| want to engage your attention
for the present to a discussion of
our publications that are issued from
the five departments in our church
that we must class as printing houses,
namely the Book Concern, which pub
fishes the Christian Recorder, week
ly; the Review, quarterly, and is sup.
posed to publish the Hymnal, Hymn
Book, the Discipline, and other text
books for the enlightenment of the
A. NJ e. preachers and the laity as
well. 1t requires to run this plant ali
the machinery necessary to operate
regular manufacturing plant, such
as steam boilers, engines, betting and
shafting, or if electricity is used, in
dividual motors, heating either by
steam or stoves, elevators, etc. A
regular force must be employed; in
short, almost every expense that is
attached to any well-regulated print
ing Office is attached to our Book
Concern. The Foreign Mission De-
POI ILlCuI WnlCn L u0 NOlCG
of Missions" has its printing done by
contract, but an Office must be
maintained, the rent for which could
be saved to the Church. And so on
we take the other three departments
and we have a like condition of af-
fairs. Five concerns in different
parts of the country, costing the
Church fully three times what they
ought to cost!
Now we will estimate another item
of expense that could be greatly re-
duced by merging these three depart
ments into one, namely, white print
ing paper. You will readily agree
with me that you can get a better
price on barrel of potatoes than
you can if you buy them one peck at
a time; the same is true of printing
paper. If these five departments
were merged into one, enough could
be saved in the cost of paper each
year if properly handled, to pay the
salaries of two general officers.
Let us stop long enough to sum up
the magazines and newspapers pub
lished by these five departments; in
Philadelphia we publish the Christian
Recorder, weekly, and the Review
quarterly; in New York we publish
by contract the Voice of Missions,
monthly; in Jacksonville, Fla, we
publish the literature for the Endeav-
or Department, such as Topic Cards,
Constitutions, Tracts, etc; in Colum-
bus, Ca, we publish the Southern
Christian Recorder; in Nashville,
Tenn, we publish the Teacher and
Scholars Quarterlies, the Gem and Ju-
venile Lesson Papers and the Sunday
School Monitor. Suppose then, just
for the sake of argument we estimate
The number of copies of each of these
periodicals printed each issue as fol-
lows: the Christian Recorder, 10000
weekly: the Review 5000 quarterly;
the Voice of Missions, $4,000 monthly;
the Southern Christian Recorder, s..
900 weekly; the Sunday School Mon
itor, 5000 semi-monthly; The Teach
er's Quarterly, $4,000 quarterly; the
Scholars Quarterly, 10000 quarterly;
tie Juvenile and Gem. $4,000 monthly
The Endeavor literature we will class
rs stock work or matter not issued
periodically, BY Jumping all the above
periodicals we get an annual number
If impressions of over 100000, re-
curing a consumption of more than
5000 reams of paper. When you
talk to a paper dealer about 5000
reams Of paper he is going to listen to
you very attentively, and he is going
to make you prices that will mean the
saving of a neat sum of money an
nually. Suppose we average this pa
per at 70 pounds to the ream: we
get a total of 100000 pounds of paper
Suppose then we estimate that this
paper as it is bought now costs on an
average of 5 cents per pound; we
have a total of $4,000, Suppose by
merging all this business we would
be able to strike an average Of four
cents per pound for this same pa
per, the 100000 pounds would cost us
S16,S00, a difference of $4,000 saved
on the paper item or nearly enough
to pay the salary of two Bishops.
More than that amount of paper is