THE WORK AND THE WORKERS by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Feb 12, 1914

THE WORK AND THE WORKERS

By Editor

“S. O. S.” WIRELESS signal of distress, to all agents and agencies: Have you any unsold January Protestant? If so, will you exchange for the great February number or for cash? Notify A. J. S. Bourdeau, manager Protestant Magazine, Washington, D. C., before sending.

Some of the Washington Missionary College students and others who took the city of Washington, D. C., by storm, January 20, in the "Protestant Magazine" campaign.

“SEND one thousand Protestant Magazines for February to the Upper Columbia Tract Society, College Place, Wash.,” wires Brother T. G. Johnson, the secretary. Could spare him only 500, and then held up orders for several hundred more. By February 4, 6,200 copies of the second edition of 10,000 of the February number had been ordered.

FOR several weeks we have been obliged to substitute the February for the January Protestant Magazine, on SUBSCRIPTIONS as well as AGENTS’ ORDERS. Two editions and the 1914 reserve supply for new subscriptions, ALL GONE! Requests to “Please begin my subscription with the January number” are numerous and appealing. Every 1914 subscription MUST BEGIN with the great February or “Protestant Mass Meeting” and “Roman Mask Put On Again” number. If our “S. O. S.” call brings relief, we will let you know promptly.

ONE order blank slipped into a sample copy of the Protestant Magazine has just returned accompanied by $4.50 and 15 six-month subscriptions. And, as we write this, two others have turned up in this morning’s mail, each with a $6.00 check, to pay for ten yearly subscriptions each; another with $3.00 for five yearly subscriptions, and another with $1.50 for five six-month subscriptions.

Send $2.00 for 50 or $1.00 for 20 “loaded” sample copies of the February number, and turn them loose among your friends. Put your name and address across the lower corner of the order blank, and we will notify you as the people subscribe.

ELDER H. C. HARTWELL, president of the Massachusetts Conference, writes from the Fitchburg, Mass., depot: “Shall do all I can to encourage the circulation of this epoch-making number of the Protestant Magazine [February]. I feel impressed to make an effort to place it in the hands of every Protestant minister in Massachusetts. It would probably take several thousand copies. Think we should be willing to invest liberally in this proposition. We would furnish you with their names and addresses, and have the magazines mailed direct from your office. Then I thought of getting out a letter from our office to each of these ministers, urging his subscription. How does this plan appeal to you?” An excellent idea! Let other States write for special rates on a similar basis.

ENTIRE February edition of Life and Health sold out by February 4. All orders must now be filled with the beautiful and practical March number, just off the press. Niagara Falls cover design. Symposium on “What I Know About Rearing the Baby,”—seven articles,—and much other matter equally as good. Order early.

SHIPPED 1,881 February Protestants January 30, 1,176 copies February 1, 491 February 2, and 1,060 copies February 3. Subscriptions not counted—231 received in one mail, besides 157 subscriptions for Liberty and 133 for Life and Health, all on February 2.

MR. ARTHUR WALSH, editor of the Protestant Observer, London, England: writes: “I take this opportunity of saying how much I appreciate the Protestant Magazine. Please tell the editors that I look forward to its reception each month with great pleasure. I only wish that we had sufficient funds in hand to publish our monthly in so creditable a form. With all good wishes for your noble work.”