One Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 4, 1916

One Hundred and Forty-Four Thousand

THE above heading announces the largest single periodical order ever made by one individual in the history of our periodical work. It was sent in through the Northern Illinois Tract Society, under date of April 22, and requires 6,000 copies of each issue of the Present Truth Series from 1 to 24,—6,000 copies to be mailed on Thursday each week until all printed numbers are mailed, and then 6,000 of each forthcoming issue as early as it is ready to mail.

These 144,000 Present Truth Series are to be sent out in separate wrappers to a selected list of names, by one of our sisters in Chicago. If, on an average, five persons read every paper sent out, this sister will thus deliver each week for seventeen weeks a strong lecture or sermon to 30,000 persons, or at the expiration of the seventeen weeks, to a total of 510,000 persons. After that the delivery will be 30,000 each month, the grand total being 720,000 persons reached with the message through the effort of one lay member in less than a year's time.

If one can do as much, what might 100,000 do in one year? They could deliver a strong message to 7,200,000,000 people within that short period of time. Think of it! Is it really within the power of our lay members to do such a work? It is; and they are just beginning to realize it. They are beginning to recognize the Present Truth Series as their most effective means with which to work, a means that is easily within their reach, and are beginning to work.

In a little over a year, while they were getting acquainted with the material offered them for a great work, they have put out 3,000,000 copies of the series, and now this large order marks the beginning of many large orders sure to follow, and the real work some have been praying for and expecting will be launched. The good day is dawning, the day when the churches will take hold of this work with great earnestness.

We suggest that all church officers study the plan adopted in the circulation of the above-mentioned 144,000 papers, and arrange for their churches to do a similar work with the number of papers adapted to the possibilities of the churches.