In communications written a few months later on the necessity of planning wisely for the conduct of the publishing work in the South, it was plainly pointed out that the brethren in responsibility in that field would find rich blessing in preparing and publishing a line of literature specially adapted to the peculiar needs of the various classes living within their borders. (LS 382.1) MC VC

In May, 1901, the Southern Publishing Association was organized, and plans were laid for the strengthening of the colporteur work throughout the Southern Union Conference. But the issuance and circulation of specially prepared literature would not alone meet the demands of the field. “We need schools in the South,” declared Mrs. White. “They must be established away from the city, in the country. There must be industrial and educational schools, where the colored people can teach colored people, and schools where the white people can teach the white people. Missions must be established.” —The General Conference Bulletin, 1901. p. 483. The medical missionary work also was to be undertaken, and many small centers for the carrying forward of this line of endeavor were to be established at strategic points. (LS 382.2) MC VC

Institutional Training in Many Lands VC

Not only in the South were institutions called for, for the education of workers; centers of training were to be established in many lands,—in “England, Australia, Germany, and Scandinavia, and other Continental countries as the work advances.” (LS 382.3) MC VC