Another Forward Move by Ole Andres Olsen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 17, 1910

Another Forward Move

By Ole Andres Olsen

IT is a matter of interest to note with what rapidity one forward move follows another in the advance of the message. This time it is three new quarterly magazines that are being launched by the International Publishing Association, of College View, Neb.,—one in the German language, Die Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Times), another, the Tidens Tecken (The Signs of the Times), in the Swedish language, the subscription price of each being, singly, thirty cents a year. These two magazines will occupy the same position among the vast population of Germans and Swedes in this country that the Signs of the Times and The Watchman do among the English-speaking people. A magazine is also being launched in the Danish-Norwegian, Lys Over Landet (Light over the Land), a health and temperance quarterly, at thirty-five cents a year, single subscription.

Any of these magazines may be obtained in quantities of five to forty at five cents a copy, and fifty or more at four cents a copy; and they sell at

ten cents each, the same as the Signs of the Times and The Watchman magazines.

We truly feel that this is an important move, and one that should prove a great blessing to the work; and this will be so if all will take hold and give them a wide circulation. First of all, we may rightly expect that our German and Scandinavian brethren and sisters will take a lively interest in the circulation of these publications. We have all noted with much interest the success that has attended the sale of the magazines in the English, and there can be no reason why there should not be the same success in these foreign languages. We urge our people of the foreign nationalities to take a hearty interest in this move, and to improve the opportunity here afforded to bring the message to thousands of our fellow foreigners through the circulation of these magazines.

This opportunity is not confined to our German and Scandinavian people, but is equally open and available to all our people. Those engaged in selling our magazines in the English language will find it to their great advantage also to carry these in the German and Scandinavian. By this means, they will not only advance their own sales, but will also have the satisfaction of bringing the truth to the people of these nationalities.

Neither is this good work confined to those who devote all their time to selling our magazines, but an opportunity is thus opened to all our people to engage in a missionary work that will be productive of great good, by bringing the truth in these magazines to thousands of souls that have not heard it as yet.

In many a community where our English-speaking people live will be found Germans, Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, that are easily accessible, and here is an excellent opportunity to do good missionary work. Even though you can not speak any of these foreign languages, you can bring them the truth in these magazines in their own language, and not only in these magazines, but we have also other publications in these same languages presenting the various lines of truth, and these should be freely circulated among all who can read.

Has not the time fully come when we should enter upon a campaign for the circulation of literature bearing this last message in advance of anything that we have done heretofore? The whole situation certainly calls for a decisive forward move, and when all take hold with a whole-hearted zeal and interest, we shall see much accomplished. Holy angels stand ready to co-operate with human agencies to make the work effectual, and in a little from this will be the glorious harvest ingathering.

O. A. OLSEN.