Magazine Sales in Japan
By A. J. S. B.
MANY of our readers have seen the new Japanese magazine, Owari no Fukuin. Our brethren in Japan are finding out that it is possible to sell a large number of ten-cent magazines in that country. Under date of April 6, 1910, Brother H. Kuniya writes from the city of Hiroshima: “I am now working in Hiroshima with the students. When we came here, some told us that we would never succeed in selling Christian papers in this city, which is the central place of the Buddhists. But trusting in the Lord, who gave us victory before, we started to sell. It is our duty to warn the one hundred fifty thousand inhabitants of this place in the best way. Unless we sell papers and tracts, they will not read; so we determined to sell, and after explaining our work, many bought our literature. In two weeks (though it rained several days), we sold 1,622 copies of our magazine, Owari no Fukuin, and 686 books and tracts. Besides this, we got a number of subscriptions for Owari no Fukuin. Our force is made up of eight persons, including myself. We have now canvassed all over the city once. Beginning with next week, we will try to canvass it again. We must visit from house to house again and again until they realize what our object is, and why we call on them so often. There are many interested families, who invite us to give Bible readings at their homes.” Surely the sale of our periodicals is one of the most effective means of carrying the message to the millions in all of the large cities of the world.