THE WORK by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1909

THE WORK

By Editor

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THE WORKERS

Brother R. G. Spohr, of Indiana, has just telegraphed a rush order for 2,000 July Life and Health for his periodical scholarship company.

Miss Hattie Hamer, one of our church-school teachers in Michigan, sends us an order for 1,875 copies of Life and Health, Liberty, and the Protestant Magazine,—625 copies of each to be sold in three of Michigan’s largest cities.

There is no better teacher than nature. Man can learn many good things from animals and insects. “Elo the Eagle” and “My Garden Neighbors” are two good books for children to read. “My Garden Neighbors” sent, post-paid, $1. “Elo the Eagle,” $1.

“Surely the July Life and Health is the best yet,” writes Brother Milton K. Dymot, of California. “Everybody says so. Please send 100 copies to —, post haste. I will delay an urgent trip till they arrive. So please rush! Enclosed find check for $4.” We are receiving nothing but praise for the July number. Have you ordered your supply? The edition of 80,000 copies is fast melting away. Send $1 for 25 copies, or $4 for 100 copies.

We again call attention to that excellent, rare book entitled “The Struggle for Religious Liberty in Virginia,” by Charles F. James; 272 pages; $1.25. This book traces the history of religious liberty through three periods: Before the Revolution; during the Revolution, and after the Revolution. It cites the important part taken in this great movement by such men as George Washington, as against those favoring church and state union. Every reader of the Review should study this book on the struggles for religious liberty in Virginia. Only $1.25, post-paid.

A prominent attorney in New York City sends us $1.10 for four yearly subscriptions to the Protestant Magazine. He wishes the magazine sent to his friends, one of whom is an ex-presidential candidate. He writes: “It has taken me some time to complete a study of the Protestant Magazine. Every article was well worth the time and energy spent upon it. To my mind ‘Our Theses’ is a masterpiece. I think your magazine has sufficient field to be issued monthly instead of quarterly. Its title should cause a considerable sale. To —, you may write a letter, stating that I am having it sent to him, and that I intended sending him a marked copy, but decided I would have to mark the entire copy, and therefore asked that he read the entire magazine.” This magazine presents to our people a virgin field in which to do self-supporting work.

“I received the 25 copies of Life and Health yesterday,” writes a lady from Montana, “and sold ten after supper. Please send 50 more. Find enclosed $2. Will want 100 of the July number.”

“We have just finished selling our first thousand magazines,” write Miss Augusta Blosser and Miss Randall, of Missouri. “We have certainly had some good experiences while selling them.” These ladies are selling Life and Health and the Protestant Magazine, and are doing good work.

No Sabbath-school is complete without a kindergarten department and a kindergarten outfit. A little money invested in a few essentials for entertaining, interesting, and impressively instructing “the babes of the flock,” will bring rich returns in a devoted youth of the church. Our kindergarten outfit consists of an instruction book, “Bible Object Lessons and Songs for Little Ones,” three boxes of illustrating materials, seven small chairs, a small folding table, and a copy of Blackboard Sketches—a complete set for only $12.50 plus freight. About 24 cents a week for one year will pay for a set that will last the Sabbath-school indefinitely. It will hold the children’s attention, impress the lesson, reduce the worry and trouble of the teacher, and add much in making the Sabbath-school the children’s delight. Orders may be sent to any State tract society.

Brother H. B. Tucker, secretary-treasurer of the Central New England Tract Society, has just sent us an order for 1,000 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. He writes: “We have a young man here on the camp-ground working in the interest of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. Very soon you will receive an order for 500 copies from Mrs. —. She is the president of the W. C. T. U. of —. This order comes through the effort of this young brother.” This special issue of the Youth’s Instructor is still being sold in large quantities by our agents.

One of our Montana sisters has just ordered 1,000 copies of the July Life and Health. She says: “I go to the houses, and my daughter sells on the street. Wednesday she sold 156 copies; and yesterday, 146 copies.”

“Mrs. Hunt sold 120 copies of Life and Health in seven hours,” writes Brother C. C. Hunt, “and my sister sold 121 magazines. We are doing well, and are of good courage. Enclosed please find money-order for $45, for the magazines we have had.”

The new edition of “Christ in Song” is giving good satisfaction wherever introduced. Its 300 new songs, together with the 650 good songs of the old edition, make it the best selection of choice songs published. “It can not be beat,” taking all things into consideration; for while the songs are the very best that can be secured, its mechanical construction renders it almost indestructible. Flexible cloth, 45 cents; art canvas, stiff back, 60 cents; half morocco, $1.

The Life and Health Leaflets are being used more and more as they become known. A new edition of all the numbers of this health series is being printed. Only a short time ago a large edition was printed. They certainly serve as small “entering wedges” for the great truths of the third angel’s message. There are 10 tracts in the series at the present time. The number and name of the tracts are as follows: No. 1, “Alcohol and Disease;” No. 2, “Alcohol and Poverty;” No. 3, “Counting the Cost of Alcohol;” No. 4, “Is Alcohol a Food?” No. 5, “The Cure for National Intemperance;” No. 6, “Patent Medicines;” No. 7, “Simple Treatments for a Cold;” No. 8, “Some Effects of Tobacco Using;” No. 9, “Pointed Facts About Tobacco;” No. 10, “Pure Air in the Home.” All these tracts are ½ cent each, excepting Nos. 6 and 9, which are ¾ cent each.

The Religious Liberty Series consists of small, yet effective tracts. There are now fifteen numbers completed, names of which are as follows:— No. 1, “Principles Too Little Understood,” 50 cents a 100; No. 2, “Sunday Laws,” 50 cents a 100; No. 3, “Logic of Sabbath Legislation,” 50 cents a 100; No. 4, “The Civil Sabbath,” 75 cents a 100; No. 5, “Civil Government and the Church,” 25 cents a 100; No. 6, “Religious Liberty—What Eminent Authorities Say,” 75 cents a 100; No. 7, “The Church’s Greatest Need To-day,” 25 cents a 100; No. 8, “Church Federation,” 75 cents a 100; No. 9, “Limits of Civil Authority,” 25 cents a 100; No. 10, “A Vital Question—Is the Sabbath a Civil Institution?” 50 cents a 100; No. 11, “What Are Works of Charity and Necessity?” 50 cents a 100; No. 12, “Backward States,” 50 cents a 100; No. 13, “Alexander Campbell on Moral Societies,” $1.50 a 100; No. 14, “William Lloyd Garrison on Sunday Laws,” 50 cents a 100; No. 15, “Sunday Mail Reports,” 75 cents a 100.