Newspaper Work in Kansas by E. R. ALLEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 30, 1915

Newspaper Work in Kansas

By E. R. ALLEN

FROM time to time we learn of the interest taken by the reading public in the reports of our work that are published in the newspapers. Last summer I was visiting about thirty miles from where a tent meeting was being held. I had reported some of the meetings myself, and here learned that a farmer out in the country had become interested in the second coming of Christ through reading the short reports in the daily paper, and desired reading matter on the subject. Another time I reported a sermon, and the next day a business man, an infidel, called one of our brethren to him and asked many questions in regard to our faith, and accepted reading matter though previously he had seemed unapproachable.

One day I walked into the bank in Wichita, and the cashier said they were just talking about Seventh-day Adventists. He went on to say that he understood from the papers that we give more per capita to missions than any other denomination. I assured him that this is so, but that I felt that we should do much more than we are doing. One day while I was soliciting for the Harvest Ingathering, a business man remarked that he knew of the way our people give. He said he learned it through his own church paper. While soliciting for one of our journals, in the Wichita Masonic Temple, the man in charge volunteered his opinion that the Adventist people are absolutely to be depended on in figures and statistics. Thus, while we may seem a small people, and obscure, we are often in the public eye, and in many places we are very favorably known.

In connection with our last camp meeting we were asked to obtain five hundred subscribers for two weeks for the Topeka Capital. In consideration for this, we were to receive considerable space in the paper. We doubled the number required, giving over one thousand subscriptions. Much valuable matter was thus placed before the public relative to our work and faith. A recent report of this incident in the REVIEW erroneously stated that the number of subscriptions obtained was two thousand, and that the conference received one half of the subscription price for the two weeks. The full subscription price went to the publishers, but we were favored in the liberal space allowed us for reports of our meetings. E. R. ALLEN.