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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 21, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 29.

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Notes of Progress

By A. J. S. B.

OF last year's May edition of the Signs Monthly 23,858 copies were sold, as compared with 29,038 copies this year,—a gain of 5,188 copies.
FIVE of the magazines show a decided increase in their circulation over last month. One of them, the Watchman, records its highest circulation thus far in its history.
UP to July 12, orders were received for 65,000 copies of the July Life and Health. At the rate orders are being received, the total edition of 70,000 copies should soon be disposed of.
ELDER A. J. BREED, religious liberty secretary of the North Pacific Union Conference, recently sent in an order containing 700 yearly subscriptions for Liberty. If all our people realized the true significance of the great questions discussed in this quarterly magazine, its circulation would be increased a hundredfold within a month.
IN addition to the regular Signs of the Times Monthly cover design for July, the publishers have issued a special cover for their Canadian edition, appealing especially to Canadian and British citizens. On this cover appear pictures of the late King Edward VII and the present King George V. This number will certainly prove a good seller in the Dominion.
THE manager of the Review and Herald periodical department informs us that orders have been received for 190,000 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor. The total number printed thus far is 210,000 copies.
UP to July 3 the publishers of the Signs Monthly received orders for over 40,000 copies of the July issue. This did not include the orders in two days' mail which they had been unable to fill up to that time. This indicates that the July number will have a much larger sale than the June issue.
A YOUNG woman in Baltimore, Md., sold 47 copies of the Temperance Instructor in one and one-half hours on June 12, making a net profit of $2.82. Incidentally, she delivered 47 strong temperance lectures to that many or more persons. Are there not others who will thus successfully agitate the temperance question?
ABOUT a year ago a sister in Ohio ordered five copies of Life and Health. The next month she ordered six copies, the next month seven, and kept on increasing her orders month by month. She is still selling the magazine, and has now increased her order to sixteen copies. This illustrates how one who has but little time can yet accomplish something in this work during odd moments.
ONE of our Bible readers associated with a city tent effort, recently sold twenty-two copies of the Temperance Instructor in one hour. Since then the other Bible workers connected with that work have been circulating Life and Health and our other periodicals as a means of arousing an interest in the tent-meetings. As a result of these efforts, the minister in charge now reports a good interest in the services.
MISS BERTHA LOFSTAD, secretary of the British Columbia Tract Society, writes that some of the periodical agents in that territory are having good success. She says: “Yesterday two of our girls sold 99 copies of the Temperance Instructor in just a few hours. They are selling the Dominion Sentinel to-day. I am trying to get them to take a club of the papers, and sell them regularly at least once each week during the summer.”
As a result of efforts put forth during a recent camp-meeting in the Western Oregon Conference, 117 yearly subscriptions were secured to the Protestant Magazine. Seventh-day Adventists have been pointed out repeatedly by leaders in the Catholic Church as the only body of consistent Protestants. If your neighbors and friends have not seen the latest number of this quarterly, try in some way to bring it to their attention.
DURING five days of the last week in June, one brother sold 1,250 copies of the Watchman, thus averaging 250 copies a day. On a recent Sunday this same brother sold 500 copies of the Watchman to people going to and from a Catholic church. The priest met him, and told him that he would denounce him and the Watchman if he did not stop selling the magazine, which he declared maligned his church. The brother explained that it contained nothing but the truth.
A. J. S. B.