The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Printing Begun in Foreign Lands

Indicating the spread of the truth, we note that from 1875 to 1878 the printing work was begun in Basel, Switzerland, and in Christiana, Norway. GSAM 293.2

In the autumn of 1875 a report was given in the Review of book sales at the Review and Herald office alone, for seven years, from 1868 to 1875, amounting to $85,644.54, nearly six-fold increase over the seven preceding years, and the sales for all four of the offices (Michigan, California, Switzerland, and Norway), for three years, from 1875 to 1878, was $98,163.73. GSAM 293.3

A statement was made in the Review of October 17, 1878, that all the books, pamphlets, and tracts printed by the Review office previous to 1864 amounted to 50,058,000 pages. From 1864 to 1878 the number of pages was 158,130,951, or a total of 208,188,951 pages. GSAM 293.4