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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 17, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 33.

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The Publishers’ Forum

By Editor

Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review & Herald Publishing Association
ONE brother writes that he is going to act on the suggestion made in the “Forum” of August 3 in regard to preparing for work with “Desire of Ages.” A six-months’ study of the “Words and Works of Jesus,” by the Sunday-schools, in 1906, offers an excellent opportunity to introduce this most helpful book to Sunday-school workers and students. Who else will enlist?
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As this number of the REVIEW begins the third year of its publication in Washington, D. C., the thousands of its devoted friends will be gratified, encouraged to continue their personal support, and to increase their energies in further extending its circulation, when they learn that during these two years the list reveals an increase of 5,000 subscriptions, and that the universal testimony of the oldest readers declares, “The REVIEW is growing better and better.”
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A GENTLEMAN called at our office one day last summer and asked for a copy of the REVIEW AND HERALD. In the course of a short conversation, he said he was laid up with a broken limb for several weeks in a native hut some fifteen miles from Bulawayo, in South Africa, and the only reading-matter he had was a copy of the REVIEW he found there. He said he read it through and through, until he almost committed it to memory. Since that time he had made it a point to get a copy whenever he could, for he thought it such a good paper. Is there not some one of your acquaintances, Sabbath-keeper or not, who might be helped and encouraged by the weekly visits of this paper?
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“In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.”
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It’s a “far cry” to California to secure supplies, and this is especially true of the small leaflets which are in such demand during the tent season and the missionary campaign. So we have purchased from the Pacific Press a set of plates of the series of Signs of the Times Leaflets, and are printing an edition to supply our territory—the Atlantic and Lake Union Conferences. The series covers the most important phases of present truth, and the cost is so low that all the people can use large quantities. Prices: 100, of each (1,600 in all), $1.95; one pound, about 20 of each leaflet, 50 cents; 100 of any one kind, 15 cents; 1,000, $1.30. All prices are post-paid. Leaflets are put up in packages of 100 each; and we can not fill orders for broken packages, except in pound packages as provided above.
When you want the address of your paper changed, be sure to give both old and new address.
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THIRTEEN camp-meetings are in progress this week, and we trust at every one of these definite work is being done, in harmony with the recommendation of the last General Conference, “to place the REVIEW AND HERALD in every Sabbath-keeping home.” This is the special work to be carried on in every conference “through the camp-meeting season and early fall.”
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OUR friends will be pleased to know that extracts from Vol. VIII of “Testimonies for the Church” have been compiled in pamphlet form, and printed in the German, Danish, and Swedish languages. The German translation contains 144 pages; the Danish, 128 pages; and the Swedish, 136 pages. The low price of only 25 cents each brings this very important publication within the reach of all.
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FOR the benefit of those who frequently desire a small book or a tract in the Japanese language we announce the literature we have in that language which can be secured from any of our publishing houses: “Glorious Appearing,” 20 cents; “The Marshaling of the Nations,” 10 cents; “New Testament Sabbath,” 2 cents; “Second Coming of Christ,” 3 cents; “The True God and His Sabbath,” 1½ cents; “The Way of Salvation,” 2 cents.
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ONE of the conference presidents has just sent to the Review and Herald notice that it is his purpose to literally sow his conference with the forthcoming revised tract entitled “The Celestial Railroad,” by Nathanael Hawthorne, mention of which was made in a recent issue of the REVIEW. This will be a tract that will interest and instruct the general public. It is being printed, and advance orders may be sent in now. Thirty-two pages; price, 2 cents, post-paid.
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WE have made a selection of tracts covering the principal points of present truth, and have placed them in a large envelope with an appropriate letter to the receiver from the publishers. This letter contains no names of individuals, does not reveal the source of the literature other than that of the publishers. It solicits the careful reading of the contents of the envelope. These packages may be sent to any friend who may be prejudiced against receiving literature directly from an acquaintance. They are good also to send out to individuals in whom any one may be interested. The packages will be sent, post-paid, to any address for 10 cents. Orders for these tracts sent out in this way should be forwarded directly to the Review and Herald Publishing Association, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.