Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerByers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
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Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner
Byers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) -- History; Warner, D. S. (Daniel Sidney), 1842-1895
Early in the autumn of 1882 the publishing office was moved to
Cardington, Ohio. Here was a congregation of saints among whom the
publishing work could be better supported. A very pleasant office,
warm and well lighted, was rented for thirty dollars a year. Brother
Warner acknowledges his enjoyment of the great kindness, love, and
cooperation of the true saints there. It seems, however, that even
there the work did not make much progress. The old press had by this
time become very unsatisfactory. Brother Warner sought to hire his
printing work done elsewhere, but his effort resulted in his having
to print the first issue of 1883 on a job-press, with the paper
reduced in size to a four-column 11 by 15. The price was dropped to
seventy-five cents, then to fifty cents. The following editorial will
give an insight to his situation:
THIS LITTLE TRUMPET
Having had our last issue printed on our neighbor's steam-press, we
concluded it would pay us to trade our old press on a jobber and
have them print the paper regularly.
Our chief reason for so doing was this: in the time that it would
take us to print them on the slow old press, we could make more
on job-work than would pay the printing. But, behold, when our
neighbors learned that we were getting a job-press, they seemed
to think we were intruding on their territory, and not having the
utmost confidence in their typographical ability they thought
to make us pay a sort of royalty for the privilege of doing
job-work here, by raising the price of printing the trumpet from
four dollars to eight dollars an issue; and while we conceded
the perfect right to charge that price, we were happy for the
privilege of saving that amount and printing on our job-press.
Of course, we can print but one page at a time, which makes four
impressions for a folio; and if we print as large as the Trumpet
has been, it will take eight times running through the press,
which, after all, can be done in about the same time it took to
print it in two impressions on the old press, and takes one to run
instead of three.
When the paper comes to you only half the old size we will call it
but a half number, so we will not defraud our subscribers in the
least. But we desire to send you eight pages every two weeks if we
possibly can. When we can not, please bear with us until the kind
providence of God and the liberality of the saints help us to get a
paper-press.
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