Our Literature at Work by E. R. PALMER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 18, 1915

Our Literature at Work

By E. R. PALMER

At the farewell meeting of the publishers’ convention, recently held in Takoma Park, one of the field agents who had visited Washington City during the day, passed to the writer a note which reads as follows: “When we entered the House of Representatives at the Capitol today, one of the doorkeepers was reading a copy of ‘Coming King.’ Soon after, I called at a barber shop, and the barber was reading a copy of the Protestant Magazine Extra.”

As we see our literature going from this office at the rate of about two tons a day, we often look at the wagonloads of mail sacks, and ask the question, Where do all these tracts and papers and books go? The answer must be, They are going to the people who love the third angel’s message, and are being placed in the hands of those who are anxious to know the truth of God for the times in which we live.

All over the world people are reading our literature, and especially so just now; for the time has come when they will take down the books from their shelves, brush off the dust, and read the truths which, in the providence of God through his servants, have been placed in their hands.

The copy of “Coming King” referred to in the note is described as being extremely worn and almost out of its cover, indicating that it had been passed round for a long time by some one who appreciates its contents.

E. R. PALMER.