THE WORK - AND - THE WORKERS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 8, 1909

THE WORK — AND — THE WORKERS

THE April issue of Life and Health sells well. This magazine appeals to all classes of people.

THERE are three reasons for buying the “R. & H.” clear-type Bible,—clear print, light weight, serviceable and attractive bindings. Ask for the new booklet, “Three Reasons.” It tells how to select a good Bible.

ONE good brother proposes to walk all the way from Alabama to Washington, D. C., to attend the General Conference, selling Life and Health as he goes. Evidently Thoreau was not the only person who believed in discarding railway fares.

THE new, artistic, two-color cover design of Liberty magazine for the second quarter has elicited one or more exclamations of pleased surprise from every agent who has seen this number. Without exception, all predict that it will sell the best of any number yet produced.

THE revised edition of “Story of Daniel” is now ready. The new illustrations which have been added make the work very attractive. It will prove an excellent companion volume to “Seer of Patmos.” Styles and prices uniform. Plain, $1; half cloth, marbled, $1.25; full cloth, $1.50.

EVERY boy and girl will be interested in “Elo, the Eagle.” The stories of “Elo, the Eagle;” “Dick, the Bear;” “Sobersides, the Toad;” and many other animal heroes are of thrilling interest. The book sells so readily that even boys and girls may act as agents, with good success. There are over two hundred pages in the complete book. The text is attractively illustrated with original drawings. Price, $1.

NEARLY twenty thousand copies of the new “Christ in Song” have already been sold. Has your Sabbath-school adopted the new book? Think of its advantages: nine hundred fifty of the very best gospel songs, three hundred of which were not included in the old edition; a topically arranged index covering one hundred subjects; eleven pages of Scripture readings. In fact, the new “Christ in Song” is the best song-book published. Prices: cloth, 60 cents; half morocco, $1; Turkey morocco, $2.50; flexible levant morocco, $3.

ELDER M. C. ISRAEL, of California, though seventy-five years of age, still desires to be counted among our active periodical agents. He writes: “Enclosed find draft for $2.75, in payment of fifty copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor and a club of five copies of the Protestant Magazine.” And, speaking of Liberty and Life and Health, he remarks: “We can do more with these than with the doctrinal literature. Shall be glad to do all I can. When agents get to be seventy-five years old, you do not expect so much of them.” How encouraging it is that the aged, as well as the young, may have a successful part in the great work of distributing our periodicals.

UP to last Tuesday 67,460 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor had been ordered.

BROTHER D. D. FITCH, of California, holds the record for the largest number of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor ordered by one individual. Thus far, he has ordered and paid for 3,380 copies.

A LETTER just recently received from Mrs. S. N. Haskell contains an order for one thousand copies of the April Life and Health. She says: “The five hundred March copies are all sold out. I have not a copy left, and if I had two or three hundred more, I could sell them. With best wishes.”

ONE agent recently ordered six “R. & H.” clear-type Bibles at one time, at a retail value of $25. You might be able to sell one of these Bibles to your next-door neighbor—if you tried. The profit on the sale would help pay for that new Bible you expect to buy for yourself. A postal will bring the agent’s price-list.

ONE of our college students has already left school to earn his next year’s scholarship by selling Life and Health to the miners in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. His first order is for two hundred fifty copies. He is the only Seventh-day Adventist in his family, his father being a Methodist minister. Let us pray that he may succeed.

“ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH” is a practical book on the study of the English language. It will be found especially helpful to those who are studying at home, and who have not had the advantage of a higher English course than the grammar school affords. The work is divided into five parts, as follows: Part I, “Applied Grammar;” Part II, “Punctuation;” Part III, “Letter-Writing;” Part IV, “Principles of Effective Composition;” Part V, “Accuracy in the Use of Words.” 308 pages, cloth, $1.

PRESIDENTS U. S. GRANT AND JAMES A. GARFIELD, and other great leaders among men, earned their college scholarships by selling the printed page from door to door. Are you planning to earn your scholarship for next year? If so, write us for our leaflet, “How to Earn a Scholarship.” Usually the profits on the sale of, say, twenty-five hundred copies of Life and Health, Liberty, or the Protestant Magazine, will be sufficient to pay for a year’s tuition in any of our academies or colleges. A few weeks’ earnest labor should ordinarily suffice for the sale of this number of ten-cent magazines.

“I’M not strong, and can not work long each day,” writes one of our Life and Health sales-ladies. “However, in twenty-three full hours’ work since I left home (a week ago), I sold six hundred thirty-one magazines and took three subscriptions. I kept strict account of my time.” Her profit on these six hundred thirty-one periodicals was $44.17. She generally orders five hundred to one thousand copies at one time. Send $1 for twenty-five copies of the April number, and sell them to your neighbors and townspeople. Or, send 50 cents for ten copies, or 25 cents for five. Always sell them at ten cents a copy. Address Life and Health, Washington, D. C.

THE first 456 orders for the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor called for 50,177 copies, an average of 110 copies an order.

“PUT my name down as one of the 24,999 charter subscribers to the Protestant Magazine,” says one of our ministers who writes enthusiastically concerning the future of this new publication.

ONE of the Foreign Mission Seminary students, a native of Finland, sold fifty-one copies of Life and Health and Signs of the Times Monthly in the city of Washington one afternoon last week. He sold half of them in one of the large apartment houses.

THE best help in the study of the Sabbath-school lessons for the next quarter, is “Desire of Ages.” We can supply the trade edition in cloth for $1.50; in leather, for $2. The regular subscription edition is furnished in cloth, $3; half morocco, $4.50; in full morocco, $6.

COLDS are receiving more or less individual attention, just now. A large per cent of the trouble can easily be eliminated by use of the helpful suggestions found in “Colds; Their Cause, Prevention, and Cure,” by Dr. G. H. Heald. The author not only tells how to cure a cold, but, better still, how to prevent taking cold. Twenty-five cents will bring the book by return mail.

FOUR hundred thousand Religious Liberty Leaflets have already been printed. This seems like a large number, yet it would supply leaflets to only one twentieth of the people in the United States. Nine cents will supply you with one set (15 numbers) of these leaflets. Why not see that at least your nearest neighbors know the principles involved in this great question of religious liberty?

AT last accounts, the following twelve States were in the lead in the sale of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor, in the order named: California, with 7,746 copies to its credit; Michigan, with 7,632 copies; Washington, with 6,273; Colorado, with 5,537; Indiana, with 3,780; Nebraska, with 2,478; Iowa, with 2,453; Oregon, with 2,357; New York, with 1,901; Illinois, with 1,626; Missouri, with 1,556; Pennsylvania, with 1,491 copies received. Information concerning the other States will be gladly furnished on application.

“AFTER reading the advertisement of the new quarterly, the Protestant Magazine,” writes the president of our Young People’s Society in Baltimore, Md., “and bringing the matter before our society, we felt so aroused that we have decided to place this new magazine in the hands of every judge in this State, and as many other prominent men as our means will justify. Shall start with a club of eighty subscriptions. We feel that it is just the publication for this time.” Why should not all our Missionary Volunteers take a like interest in this new quarterly? Remember that from now until May 1, yearly subscriptions will be received as follows: Five or more copies, one year, to one address, or to separate addresses, cash with order, only fifteen cents each. Ten copies, one year, would thus cost only $1.50. Address the Protestant Magazine, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.