THE WORK - AND - THE WORKERS by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 27, 1909

THE WORK — AND — THE WORKERS

By Editor

THE Minnesota Tract Society has just sent in 31 more yearly subscriptions for the Protestant Magazine.

An attractive exhibit of denominational publications in which the publishing houses have united, is made in the gymnasium of the Seminary, the headquarters of the Publishing Department of the General Conference.

A letter from Lincoln, Neb., written by a lady not of our faith, says: “Enclosed find post-office money-order for $1, for which I wish you to send me Life and Health for one year, beginning with the May number. I recently saw the April number, and found much of interest in it.”

After sending in several lists of yearly subscriptions for Liberty, our Philadelphia agent says: “You see from these annual subscriptions that I meet a few who are interested in the magazine. I do not solicit these subscriptions. I simply take their order when they express a desire to get the magazine for a year. This shows that some are really interested in the cause of religious freedom.”

Mr. Charles Scanlon, secretary of the temperance committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, expresses himself thus regarding the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor: “I am in receipt of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor, and congratulate you heartily upon the wealth of material which it contains, as well as the attractive form in which it is prepared. Trusting that your efforts may be appreciated, as they richly deserve, I am, yours cordially.” We believe that the sale of this magazine has only begun. It will be a good seller for months to come. Prices: 5 to 24 copies, 5 cents a copy; 25 to 99 copies, 4 cents; 100 to 499 copies, 3¾ cents; 500 to 999 copies, 3½ cents; 1,000 or more copies, 3 cents. Address the Youth’s Instructor, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

Seventh-day Adventists are not the only people who are awakening to the fact that the world needs just such a publication as our new quarterly, the Protestant Magazine. For instance, Rev. John H. Eager, financial secretary of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Baltimore, Md.), fourteen years a missionary to Italy, and author of “Romanism in Its Home,” writes as follows: “I am very deeply interested in what you say about the new publication, the Protestant Magazine. I am fully persuaded that there is not only a place for such a magazine, but a real need for it, and that much can be accomplished if it is properly edited and managed.” Yearly subscription, 25 cents; single copy, 10 cents. Remember our special offer, good April 1 to July 1, during which yearly subscriptions will be received as follows: 5 or more copies, one year, to one address, or to separate addresses (cash with order), only 15 cents each. Address the Protestant Magazine, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.

ALL of our schools have now been supplied with full information regarding our magazine scholarship plan. Supplies of circulars have also been sent to our State tract societies, Missionary Volunteer officers, and other leaders.

It is not impossible to make Sunday sales of our magazines even in conservative Massachusetts. One of the South Lancaster Academy students, a young man, recently sold over 100 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor in six and one-half hours. Half of these were Sunday sales.

Your public library should receive regularly not less than two copies each of Liberty, Life and Health, the Protestant Magazine, and the Youth’s Instructor. Get your church interested in the matter. Speak to your librarian. Agitate the question until some action is taken.

Elder A. J. Breed, secretary of the Religious Liberty Department of the North Pacific Union Conference, writes, in renewing his REVIEW subscription: “I would not be without the weekly visits of the REVIEW for many times its cost. I have now taken it for more than thirty-five years, and can say that it grows better each year, as the truth reaches out into new fields.”

An eminent New York gentleman who figured prominently in the recent controversy between the late President Roosevelt and the Lutheran Synod regarding the possibility of a Catholic president, writes us as follows regarding Liberty: “I received your letter and Liberty. As much as my time permitted me to read of it anent the Romish question, it is good, especially the article on Cardinal Gibbons’s ‘The Church and the Republic.’” He refers to Liberty, No. 2—for the second quarter, 1909.

“The publication of the Protestant Magazine is another step in the right direction,” writes Brother John S. Wightman, secretary of the Central States Religious Liberty Association. This new publication is eliciting a hearty response from our people in all quarters. Remember that the first thing needed is a good large subscription list in order to launch it. You can help by forwarding five to twenty-five names of your neighbors, friends, or acquaintances, accompanied by fifteen cents to pay for each of their yearly subscriptions. Let us hear from you promptly.

Every home in the city of Boulder, Colo., was recently supplied with a copy of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. The occasion, we are informed, was “a hotly contested city election,” in which the question was whether the city should be “wet” or “dry,” with no side issues. “One of the dailies of the city gave the work and the paper a fine write-up.” The city was districted, and 1,750 copies of the Instructor were distributed, about fifty of our brethren and sisters engaging in the work. “The workers had many interesting experiences,” continues the writer, “and our people there are gaining an enviable reputation as a temperance people.” To date, Colorado has circulated the fourth highest number of copies of the Temperance Instructor.

We have just taken from our files twenty-four orders (just as they came), for the Protestant Magazine. Most of them were received in one day. They call for 316 copies, an average of thirteen copies to each order.

Arrangements have just been made with the George Washington University, Washington, D. C., whereby our periodical agents may earn a scholarship in the medical department, through the sale of our ten-cent magazines. For full information address this Office.

“The magazine is fine,” writes Mrs. Josephine Hale, one of our Wisconsin Life and Health agents. “It is a good education for the people. I like to work with it, and wish I could sell our magazines all of the time. Have been successful when I could get out, having sold 1,100 copies thus far.” Send $1 for 25 copies to sell to your townspeople.

One of our college students uses this simple canvass in selling the magazines: “Good morning. I am a student attending the —— college, located at ——, and am earning my scholarship for next year by selling this magazine (giving title). The price is only ten cents. I am not soliciting for yearly subscriptions. Thank you.” This canvass would not answer, of course, for others than student magazine agents who intend to go to one of our schools next year.

Two of our lady agents for Life and Health have just sold 1,000 copies in five days. Writing from Virginia, one of them says: “We sent you a telegram yesterday morning, for we were afraid we would not have enough magazines for to-day’s work. We go to —— next, and work in —— to-day. Please send 300 magazines there as soon as you can, and 200 more here. We are still enjoying the work very much, enjoying the presence and blessing of the Lord.”

“Please do not take my name from your subscription list,” writes a subscriber for our magazine Liberty. “I will send the money soon. I appreciate and enjoy the magazines, and give them away after I have finished reading them.” Are you on the Liberty list? The yearly subscription price is only 25 cents. Or we will mail you one copy and nine other copies to nine of your friends in the United States or Canada, one year, for only $1.50. Send in your order to-day.

“While I am not in harmony with you in regard to religion,” writes a gentleman from Arkansas, “I gladly renew my subscription for your magazine, Liberty. I am entirely in harmony with your views on religious liberty, and will at all times be ready to render any assistance I can to any movement that tends toward the complete separation of church and state. Have been acquainted with the Seventh-day Adventists for more than twenty years, and have always admired their honesty and fairness in wanting all people to have perfect civil and religious freedom. I am frank to say that this country is sadly in need of more publications like yours.” We little realize the influence this magazine is having upon those not of our faith.