p. 22 | Notes of Progress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 24, 1908

Notes of Progress

The month of August has proved to be the banner month in the matter of book sales for the Review and Herald home office thus far the present year. During the twenty-six working days of the month, shipments of books to the value of $23,546.17 were made from that office, or an average of over nine hundred dollars' worth of our truth-filled silent messengers were sent out each day. The sales for this month show an increase of twenty-five hundred dollars over the preceding month (July, 1908), and an increase of about eighty-five per cent over the totals for the month of August, 1907. This large amount of business has tested the organization of their bindery and shipping-room,—the bindery working four nights a week,—but the workers in those departments have faithfully stood by the task in hand, and as a result our field men have had their orders filled promptly, shipments being made, as a rule, the same day the orders have been received.

Tabulated reports of sales show that, for the month of August, 1908, no less than five of the conferences in the Lake, Atlantic, and Columbia union conferences, have trebled their sales, as compared with the corresponding month of 1907.

From a report received from Brother Max Trummer, who has charge of the German canvassing work west of the Mississippi River, we learn that sixteen of the canvassers under his direction in twelve hundred eighty-six hours took orders to the value of fourteen hundred twenty-six dollars (an average of $1.10 an hour). These workers are located in German-speaking districts of the Central, Northern, and Southwestern union conferences, the majority being in North Dakota. It is cheering to note that many of these laborers intend to stay right by the work throughout the fall and winter, carrying the truth for these times to their fellow countrymen.

Early in September the general agent of the Northern Union Conference, Brother W. L. Manful, reported that there were already about twenty-five young people in that union conference who had taken orders enough to assure their scholarships. The sales of these students range all the way from two hundred dollars to over nine hundred dollars for the summer season. Why should not the first of September, 1909, show at least double the number of young people from that union conference ready to enter our schools as the result of a summer spent in circulating our literature? There is certainly no other line of work where the returns are greater for the effort put forth, and where the blessing of God is so strikingly manifested toward the consecrated worker.