With the Publications and the Workers
“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.” “SENT broadcast over the country,” is what a Catholic priest said of the little tract “Appeal to Clergy.” Nearly half a million copies of this leaflet have been circulated, but there are other places where it should be sown “broadcast” even as the “leaves of autumn.” It can be secured at the low rate of 40 cents a hundred, $3.75 a thousand. It will be an encouragement to workers with our publications to read in the report of the Manitoba camp-meeting that “two churches were admitted to the conference, one of eighteen members being largely the result of two books sold by one of our faithful canvassers.” Not every worker will see such early and definite results from his work, but every one who faithfully sows the seed has the assurance from the Master that “my word shall not return unto me void.” “It is not opportunity, but time that I lack,” said one young person not long ago, in speaking of missionary work. How true this is! The avenues for reaching the people are innumerable, and our time so limited that at best we can do but little. How much time can you spend in giving the world the saving truth? “DANIEL IN CAPTIVITY (Temperance Lesson),” is the title of the Sunday-school lesson for September 17. The “Story of Daniel the Prophet” with its complete references, furnishes the best help that can be had on this topic, and also fully portrays the results of a life that is really temperate. Are there not some Sunday-school workers near you who would be glad of the opportunity to purchase this invaluable help? This may be your opportunity to reach them. Try it. “I wish to express the most unqualified appreciation of the ‘Publishers’ Forum,’” says one of our best known book men. “I am delighted with the idea, and hope it will be followed every week. I think it would add greatly to the page if occasional paragraphs were dropped in indicating the success of agents, churches, and home workers in selling literature.” We agree with the brother, and request him and all others who have interesting items for this page to send them in. “THE FATHER’S presence encircled Christ, and nothing befell him but that which Infinite Love permitted for the blessing of the world. Here was his source of comfort, and it is for us. He who is imbued with the Spirit of Christ abides in Christ. The blow that is aimed at him falls upon the Saviour, who surrounds him with his presence. Whatever comes to him, comes from Christ. He has no need to resist evil; for Christ is his defense. Nothing can touch him except by our Lord’s permission; and ‘all things’ that are permitted, ‘work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.’”—Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 110. A wonderful book full of messages of hope and comfort. Mark some of these passages and loan your copy to some discouraged brother, sister, or neighbor. THE secretary of the Manitoba Tract Society recently sent in a batch of subscriptions for the Sabbath School Worker, which contained orders for 53 copies for one year. These 53 copies go to 35 different addresses, so it would appear that one or more persons in a large number of the Sabbath-schools of the Manitoba Conference have the benefit of the monthly visits of this valuable journal. Do the officers and teachers in your school take the Worker? “MY GARDEN NEIGHBORS,” by Dr. L. A. Reed, is an excellent book for the home and the church-school. Church-school teachers will find it of especial value either as a book for supplementary reading, as a guide to nature study work (several chapters being devoted to this), or as a book from which to read to the pupils. The last chapter gives minute instruction in bird study, and the whole book will throw a light upon nature that is bound to make the work of the teacher more effective than ever. “THERE is no branch of legitimate business for which the Bible does not afford an essential preparation. Its principles of diligence, honesty, thrift, temperance, and purity are the secret of true success. . . . The accounts of every business, the details of every transaction, pass the scrutiny of unseen auditors, agents of Him who never compromises with injustice, never overlooks evil, never palliates wrong.”—Education, pages 135, 144. Another most helpful book which the world needs. Our “home workers” ought to circulate it by the thousand. IN several conferences during the campaign in behalf of the circulation of the REVIEW last fall, a “Roll of Honor” was started, and in it was enrolled the name of every church in which the REVIEW was taken in every family of Sabbath-keepers. We would be pleased to start a Roll of Honor in this column which shall contain the name of every conference in which every Seventh-day Adventist family takes the REVIEW. Is this too much to expect? Do you not think that the members of such a conference would be in touch with the development of the work in all its phases, and imbued with missionary zeal? A book of special interest to our young people is “My Garden Neighbors,” now in press. It is difficult to know just what literature to put into the hands of our young people. This book contains stories which give us an insight into nature, and make us acquainted with some of her creatures, leaving us to pick up some very useful lessons as we read. The stories are exceedingly interesting, some of them being almost tragic, and all of them true to the facts. It is a safe book to put into the hands of anybody, old or young. It is well illustrated, a number of the pictures being in the natural colors. The last pages of the book show how to tell one bird from another, and introduce us to nearly one hundred of the most common ones in America. The price is one dollar. Advance orders may be sent to your tract society, or to the Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C.