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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 9, 1905

Publishers’ Page

By Editor

Conducted by the Department of Circulation of the Review and Herald Publishing Association

Important Missionary Work

If there is one work more important than another, it is that of getting our publications before the people, thus leading them to search the Scriptures. Missionary work—introducing our publications into families, conversing, and praying with and for them—is a good work, and one which will educate men and women to do pastoral labor. Churches in every place should feel the deepest interest in the tract and missionary work.

Few have any adequate idea of what the distribution of tracts and papers is doing. The missionary work, in circulating the publications upon present truth, is opening doors everywhere, and preparing minds to receive the truth when the living preacher shall come among them. The success which attends the efforts of ministers in the field is not due alone to their efforts, but in a great degree to the influence of the reading-matter which has enlightened the minds of the people and removed prejudice. — “Gospel Workers.”

The people are now greatly assisting the ministers in their work in the liberal circulation of—

An Appeal to Clergy

On the nineteenth of January an announcement was made in the REVIEW of the printing in tract form of “An Appeal to Clergy,” containing an Open Letter sent to the Protestant ministers of Washington, D. C., and on February 1 orders had been received for 150,000 copies, and every mail still brings liberal orders. By the time this issue of the REVIEW is out, the orders will doubtless amount to over 200,000.

This hearty response demonstrates a willingness on the part of the people to use favorable opportunities for the proclaiming of the message due the world at this time. With the orders received come words of hearty appreciation of the letter itself, and approval of printing it in tract form for general distribution.

“An Appeal to Clergy” contains the best presentation of the Sabbath question ever issued. Only those who are wilfully blind can possibly fail to see the truth it contains relative to the Sabbath question. The spirit of this tract will command the attention and respect of the general public; and the circumstances associated with its appearance clothe it with a special and general interest. It will be a good tract to circulate for all time; but while it is fresh, and the circumstances are favorable, a million copies ought to be placed in circulation. No church ought to be satisfied unless a large number have been purchased and distributed in its community. A few dollars expended for the circulation of this tract will accomplish more for the work than much more expended along other lines. Every person ought to realize that no more effectual work can be done at the present time in advancing the work than to place “An Appeal to Clergy” in the homes of the people. It will be sent, post-paid, for $3.75 a thousand, or 40 cents a hundred.

Life and Health

THE mission of Life and Health is to apply the fundamental principles of life and health in a simple, practical manner, and to render helpful service in encouraging all classes to follow the plain pathway to true happiness.

The February issue is full of the instruction the people need at this time. The talk to mothers and daughters, by Margaret Evans, M. D., in the article under the title “The Girl of Fourteen,” contains important information every mother in the land ought to have; and when this one article is properly explained, there are but few mothers who will not want it, with all the other good matter contained in the February number.

The illustrated article on “The Healing of the Soul,” by Mrs. E. G. White, contains a message of the love and compassion of the Great Physician for the world to-day as illustrated in the physical and moral healing of the paralytic. The world is not only sick physically, but morally, and greatly needs the lessons impressed in this article as well as in all those articles on the ministry of healing by the same author. These two articles alone in the February issue of Life and Health render this number very attractive and important to the people, and when explained, the journal is readily purchased.

Agents are reporting excellent success with the February issue. They say it is the best of all. We want to secure an agent in every community to sell single copies and to solicit subscriptions.

The subscription price of the journal is 50 cents a year, with the November and December issues for 1904 given as a premium as long as these editions last. In clubs of ten or more copies to one address for one year, 30 cents a copy. Copies to sell can be secured for 2½ cents in orders of twenty-five or more. Liberal discount is given to the agent on annual subscriptions.

We solicit correspondence from those who would like to work with the journal. Address 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C., or State Tract Societies.