Publishing Pioneers Practiced Self-denial—The work of God is to be carried on by us as a people. We know how it started. My husband said, “Wife, let us take only sixteen shillings a week. We shall live very plainly and dress very plainly, and take the means that otherwise would come to us, and invest it in the publishing work.” The publishing house then was a plain, square building, 24 by 36 [first publishing house in Battle Creek, established in 1855]. Some narrow-minded men who wanted the money for themselves said, “This is altogether too large a building.” They brought such heavy pressure to bear regarding this question that a meeting was called. (PM 27.1) MC VC