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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 12, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 32.

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THE WORK

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THE WORKERS

Have you seen the August Life and Health? In contents and appearance it is ahead of all previous numbers.
Elder T. H. Jeys, president of the South Carolina Conference, orders 1,000 of our various magazines, to sell during their camp-meeting.
Elder Morris Lukens, president of the Indiana Conference, reports that their magazine scholarship company sold 2,000 magazines the first week and 3,000 the second.
The Northern Illinois Tract Society orders 3,000 copies of the August Life and Health. Elder Wm. Covert says that they are determined to raise their monthly order to 5,000 copies soon.
“Simple Treatments for Common Ailments,” by Dr. Maria Edwards, is a tract of twenty pages, which is probably the simplest and most condensed treatise on the treatment of common diseases ever published. Price, 2 cents.
“Bible Nature Series,” No. 1, is the title of an excellent book on elementary science, by Prof. M. E. Cady. It includes the study of elementary geography. The price of No. 1 of this series is $1.20. No. 2 of the series will be brought out some time between now and the first of the new year.
“Please send me 100 copies of Life and Health at once,” writes one of our lady agents in New Orleans. “I sold one man 50 copies. He said he wanted them to use in his business. He is a cottonseed-oil dealer, and may want more copies.” This agent did well in suiting her canvass to her customer. She read his need, and canvassed him accordingly.
A Methodist Sunday-school superintendent in St. Louis, Mo., has just bought 300 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor for use in his Sunday-school. Why not introduce this excellent number to Sunday-school officers in your town? Prices: 25 to 99 copies, 4 cents each; 100 to 499 copies, 3¾; 500 to 800 copies, 3½ cents; 1,000 or more, 3 cents each. Send $3.75 for 100 copies to sell among your neighbors.
Brother D. W. Percy, of the West Virginia Conference, writes: “We are planning to take a few hours off every day during our camp-meeting, in order that our people who are willing may take part in a systematic campaign of house-to-house and street work with our ten-cent magazines.” A portion of the profits will be turned in to help defray the camp-meeting expenses. If churches in Pennsylvania and other States can pay off their church debts (as they have done), and if individuals can pay off their private debts (as many have done), through the sale of our ten-cent magazines for a few weeks, why should this remunerative, self-supporting missionary work not be utilized to defray other necessary expenses?
Mrs. S. N. Haskell, of the Northern California Conference, sends an order for 1,000 copies of the August Life and Health.
How many copies of the July Life and Health were circulated in your State? See article “Where the July Life and Health Went,” on page 22.
We can now supply the Review and Herald new illustrated Scholarship booklet, which gives full instructions in regard to earning a scholarship in our leading schools, also a medical scholarship in the George Washington University, of Washington, D. C. Sent free on application to Book Department.
“Enclosed find post-office money-order for $1, to pay for the 25 copies of Life and Health received,” writes a sister from Missouri. “I have had very good success. Working twelve hours in Farmington this week, I sold twenty copies of Life and Health, and also ten copies of the Signs Monthly magazine.
“I enclose check for $11.25, for which please send the Protestant Magazine one year to the 75 names and addresses on the enclosed list,” writes Mrs. Catherine D. Elford, of Alabama. We are glad to note that most of these names are those of ministers residing in one of Alabama’s largest cities. Will not others take up this good work? The Protestant Magazine presents the great underlying principles of Protestantism and of Seventh-day Adventism in a drawing manner.
“At our camp-meeting in the eastern part of the province, we had a temperance meeting,” writes Miss Bertha Lofstad, secretary of the Sabbath-school and young people’s department of the British Columbia Conference, “and after the meeting we sold 500 copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor in just a few minutes. I think this was good for a small meeting, the attendance being only seventy.” The little meetings are ofttimes the best. The writer recalls, for instance, a California camp-meeting where 5,000 copies of Life and Health and Liberty were sold to our people for them to take home and sell. Yet there were only about thirty family tents on the ground. It took a large dray to bring the magazines from the post-office.
Brother Frank Hiner, secretary of the East Michigan Tract Society, has just ordered 4,000 of our ten-cent magazines (1,000 copies each of Life and Health, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, and the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor), to be used in their camp-meeting periodical campaign. They plan to hold a good, old-fashioned workers’ meeting, the workers to visit the townspeople, selling the magazines, and inviting the people to the services. At the close of the camp-meeting the workers from the various churches will carry home supplies of the magazines, and sell them in their home communities. Several other conferences are also sending in large orders for magazines to be used in a similar manner. The California Conference brethren have just disposed of several thousand copies of our ten-cent magazines in this way. The plan is no longer an experiment.
We advise all Liberty agents to acquire additional selling points by a careful perusal of Religious Liberty Leaflets Nos. 1-15. Price of the set (136 pages), 10 cents, post-paid. Our most successful lady agent for Liberty ascribes her success to the reading of these leaflets and three or four numbers of the magazine itself.
“We were in St. Paul and Minneapolis sixteen days,” write a brother and sister, “and sold 1,050 copies of Liberty and 350 Life and Health, besides attending nearly all of the services at the camp-meeting. Other workers sold about 1,500 magazines. We sold 1,440 copies in all. So you see this is a field that should be looked after.”
Have not all experienced the embarrassment of not being able to turn immediately to the text desired when in conversation upon Scriptural topics? At such times, the “Bible Text-Book” would be very helpful; for its arrangement renders it valuable as a text-book for study. It contains a large amount of valuable information in a very compact form. While it is only 3½ x 6¾ inches in size, it treats of forty-nine of the most important Biblical topics. As a reference book, it will help all to readily refer to the texts appertaining to these forty-nine topics. Cloth, 30 cents; leather, 50 cents.
“The Liquor Traffic and Prohibition”—an unusually strong four-page temperance tract, by Mrs. E. G. White, dealing forcibly and practically with “The Vital Question of the Nations,” “Must the Evil Continue,” “Universal Peril,” “Inconsistency of Licensing the Liquor Traffic,” “No Revenue Can Compensate for the Evil Entailed,” “An Earnest Appeal.” The tract is condensed, and cheap in price, but is one of the strongest presentations of the evils of intemperance and the responsibility and inconsistency of the government in permitting the sale of liquor through the license law that has ever been written. It ought to be in every home in the world. Price, 25 cents a hundred, post-paid. Order of your tract society.
“Bible Lessons in Old and New Testament History” is the title of a series of four books being published by the Pacific Press. The purpose of the series is to aid the teacher and the parent in solving the problem of teaching the children the sacred Word of God. The history given in the Bible is the child’s true field of Bible study, and his effort in this, as in all else, should be systematic and thorough. In nothing that man has written, can there be found anything that has such a hold upon the heart of the little ones as the stories of the Bible. In these simple stories the great principle of the law of God may be made plain. “Bible Lessons” is not intended merely to make the children familiar with Bible stories, but to cause them, by means of these stories, to understand the principles of the law of God, which is the true end of all Bible study and teaching. The first book of this series is now completed. Price, 90 cents, post-paid. Remaining copies of the books will be issued later.