Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-03
PLANS TO PUSH OUTPUT
MADE AT CONFERENCE
Publishing Business Of Denomination
Attained Large Volume-Delegat ion
From MarshalItown Club Entertain
ed at Dinner at Camp-Dr. Truman
and Bishop Thompson Speakers.


the year indicate that this goal will be
easily reached. With the view of en-
couraging gospel workers to take up
the work of spreading this literature,
a meeting was conducted at II O'Clock
this forenoon in the pavilion at the
camp in the city park under the direc-
ton Of E. NJ. Oberg, of Minneapolis,
| field missionary secretary of the
Northern Union Conference. Those
taking part in the symposium meeting
We're C. l.. Gulbranson. of st. Paul,
manager of the Pacific Press Publish
ing Association branch house of that
city. and L. L. Grand Pre-. of Neva da,
field missionary secretary of the Iowa
Conference.
During 191SS the total sales of Ad-
ventist literature amounted to $3.50
| 900. There has been q very marked in
crease in the sales of their publications
in recent years. During the first forty
years after this work OF publishing
Christian literature was organized in
the denomination. the total sales
amounted to ss,65O,77S, but during the
| past llllbtn years, liC SdltS IttNt az
proximated 2.309, 900, a single total
of s2s,959.77S.
Publishing Business Grows.
| At the beginning of last year there
were forty-one publishing houses and
! branches engaged in the production
| and circulation of UNCONVENTIONAL lit
| erature, having assets amounting. to
| S2.393,24s Eight hundred two persons
were engaged in the production of this
| literature and 1862 in the circulation
of the same. a total OF 1854 persons
| in this branch of UNCONVENTIONAL work.
This publishing work is carried on
| turnout the world. literature being put
out in ninety Eight languages in all.
| Of the 1913 countries in which work Is
operated, seventy-four are non-Chris-
tan and non Protestant.
| At the beginning of 1918, the num-
Der of periodicals issued by these peo-
pie was 1874, containing annually 3O,O3S
pages, the combined subscription price
of which was 1851. There has been
printed 5G2 books, having 1924 pages,
a full set of which-on copy of each
was valued at s55S.4S. A set of 1854
phamphlets issued would cost s43.49,
and a set of the 1,64S tracts would
| cost 1852. .
Prominent Visitors at Camp.
Among the other visitors at the
! camp from the city yesterday was
delegation- from the Marshalltown
! Club. The delegation was entertained
by President A. R. ogden and other
leading men of the conference at 6
| o'clock dinner. sr
| Two more men Of UNCONVENTIONAL
! standing have arrived upon the
grounds. One of these is L. III. Christ
ian, of Chicago, secretary of the bureau
of home missions of the World General
Conference. He has charge of the
work being conducted among the for
eign speaking people in this country,
and will be able to assist greatly in
the Scandinavian meetings which are
being held at the camp. The other
| gentleman is DR.. A. ". Truman, OF
Los Angeles, instructor in the clinic
| department of the White Memorial
hospital. This hospital Is operated in
connection with the College of Medical
Evangelists. Iona Linda, Calf, the
UNCONVENTIONAL school of medicine.
Dr.. Truman Speaks.
The hospital has nine buildings,
erected at cost Of $4,000. One
| hundred patients can be cared for each
| day in the hospital proper as well as
100 patients a day in the out station
and dispensary. During the influenza
| epidemic 400 cases were cared for
with a loss by death of only per cent
as compared with a loss of % per cent
| in the city of Los Angeles.
Doctor Truman gave very inter-
esting address Tuesday afternoon,
i placing before his audience the
| dangers of eating flesh meats, stating
| that meat is largely responsible for
such diseases as tuberculosis and
| cancer. In connection with his lecture
the doctor gave a number Of startling
statistics on this subject.
! The II o'clock meeting Thursday
morning will be given over to the IN
| terests Of the Sabbath school work,
and in the evening at s o'clock Evan :
gelst V. B. Watts, of Waterloo, will
speak on the subject, THE Judgment.
| Bishop Thompson's Address.
Tuesday night Bishop Charles
Thompson, Of Minneapolis. president OF
the Northern Union Conference, lee
tured on the subject, Gods Eternal
Purpose, or Where Will the Righteous
Spend Eternity?
|. He declared, God did not create
this world to become a great hospital
and grave yard, and it is not going to
be in such a condition very long. he
made an Eden Of this earth, and put
nan iEit. and it is Gods purpose that
man should live forever. When man
1 disobeyed, he lost his home.
THAT which is Gods purpose in the
| beginning is his purpose tonight The
| universe of God is destined to see the
| very theory carried out which GOD
proposed in the beginning" As to how
Gods aim will be finally meet it's full
/ fillment, the speaker read from Isaiah
65:17, For behold, / Great new heavens
and a new earth: and the former shall
/ not be remembered. nor come Into
mind" Iti
il He also called attention to the re-
H naming verses Of the chapter, noting
i especially that the inhabitants OF the
world made new are to build houses
and inhabit them and plant vineyards
4 and eat the fruit which grows, ano
also to the fact that the animals which
now snow no diispossi.t...ss:.. &c live peace
fully together will dwell in perfect
peace. Mr.. Thompson said that death
which Has cansed SO much sorrow
II will be no more.