Seite 9 - The Publishing Ministry (1983)

Contents
Information about this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Section 1—Early History of the Publishing Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 1—Dorchester Vision of 1848 and Our First
Publishing Ventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2—Established in Sacrifice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 3—The January 3, 1875, Vision and World Expansion 25
Chapter 4—God’s Purpose in the Publishing Work . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Section 2—Establishment and Operation of Publishing Houses . . 45
Chapter 5—A Sacred Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 6—High Spiritual Standards for God’s Workmen . . . . . 52
Chapter 7—Work Qualifications and Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 8—Training of Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Chapter 9—Quality Message Literature Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 10—Importance of Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Chapter 11—Relationship Between the Publishing House and
the Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Section 3—Perils Facing Publishing-House Leaders . . . . . . . . . . 107
Chapter 12—Not Kingly, but Christlike Leadership . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 13—Evils Resulting from Centralization and
Colonization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Chapter 14—Commercial Versus Denominational Printing . . . 137
Chapter 15—Divine Rebuke for Ignoring Counsel . . . . . . . . . . 143
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 16—Relocating and Rebuilding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Chapter 17—Establishing Publishing Houses in New Locations159
Section 4—The Output of the Publishing House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Chapter 18—The Publication of Books by Ellen G. White . . . 177
Chapter 19—Book Sales and Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 20—Periodicals and their Circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Chapter 21—Writers and Royalties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Chapter 22—Wages for Publishing-House Workers . . . . . . . . . 208
Section 5—Successful Field Publishing Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . 218
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