Untitled article by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 10

BOOKS! BOOKS!!

By James White

WE are glad to say that, as far as our experience is concerned, the plan entered upon to circulate among the destitute such publications as Spiritual Gifts, How to Live, Sabbath Readings, Appeal to Mothers, Appeal to the Youth, and the Charts on cloth, works admirably.

We offer them for sale to all who can and will purchase, and urge that all should have a full set of these works. Those who have a part of these publications we urge to make up a full set. Then we give them to those who manifest a desire for them, and state that they are unable to pay for them. If they are strangers we sometimes ask the following questions:

Do you keep the Sabbath? Are you in fellowship with the church? Will you read and faithfully study these books? If these questions are answered in the affirmative we take the person's name and leave the books.

During the last four weeks we have disposed of about $130 worth of these books, and have received $75, have trusted some to responsible persons, and have given in all only $27 worth. With a little pushing this enterprise will move off beyond all expectation, and call for a second edition of most of these works.

Spiritual Gifts must be read by all our people. See to it, brethren, that you have a full set of them. Spend your long evenings in reading these books to your children. Let their sentiments and spirit find way to your own and your children's minds and hearts. Read five or ten chapters each evening. After you have read these, and other works of the kind, then we have two precious books for your families. We have heard them read, and know what they are. If you and your children can hear them without shedding tears, you and they can do what we could not do.

“The Old Red House” is the title of one, and delineates not only the virtues but the failings of a family living in a red farm house, where faith, a sweet spirit, and firm religious principles, had a sanctifying influence on the entire family.

The other is a most interesting story of a Bible which is allowed to give its own history, how it was neglected, or ill-treated by ungodly hands. Then read with delight, and loved by the virtuous. How it appealed to infidels, sinners, and apostates, reaching the hearts of some, and feeling the wrath of others. And how its words of instruction, consolation and hope cheered true Christian hearts.

We have had a copy of both these works—not in our library, but going from house to house, from town to town, among our people till they are nearly worn out, and seeing the interest manifested in them, decided to obtain them, and furnish all who wish them.

Price of the Red House, $1.50, postage 24 cents. Pocket Bible, $1.25, postage 20 cents.

Address Eld. James White, Greenville, Montcalm Co., Mich. We can furnish all where we travel.

JAMES WHITE.