p. 22 | Our Special Literature by D. W. REAVIS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 3, 1914

Our Special Literature

By D. W. REAVIS

Meeting “The Prediction” and Having “an Attentive and Even Anxious Hearing”

THE accompanying facsimile copy, taken from the Literary Digest soon after the beginning of the European war, announces the presence of the time when the public mind is prepared for literature giving light on the great fundamental problems of the race, and dealing with the destiny of nations.

This prediction of the Springfield Republican is proving to be true. The editors of the REVIEW, sensing the need of the hour, got out the first War Extra of the REVIEW, and within a few weeks a million and a half copies were ordered. Soon a second Extra was issued, on the Eastern Question, and in ten days over one-half million copies were ordered, and orders for from 50,000 to 90,000 copies a day were coming in when this report was made.

The demand for this special literature is not confined to the English language, for all nationalities want it. The following facsimile telegram reveals the intense desire, and the spirit of haste in getting the contents of the REVIEW Extra No. 2 translated into other languages:—

The president of the New Jersey Conference, from whom this message was originally received, sent telegrams to his churches announcing the second Extra, and they immediately sent in orders for 65,000 copies, and are still ordering.

The general spirit and sentiments of those ordering the REVIEW Extra are expressed in the following quotation:—

“We received the sample copy of the REVIEW Extra No. 2 in time for our Sabbath meeting. We are ordering 20,000 copies for distribution in Reading, Pa. Our plan is to put a copy in every house. I believe that if the publishers continue to supply good, cheap literature on subjects which are up-to-date, our missionary societies and churches will use it in large quantities.”

REVIEW Extra No. 2 has been translated and printed in the Bohemian language and can be secured of the Review and Herald, 32 Union Square East, New York City, N. Y., at 75 cents a hundred.

D. W. REAVIS.