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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 29, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 9.

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Providences in Our Magazine Work

By A. J. S. Bourdeau

The influence exerted by our ten-cent magazines is marvelous. Our correspondence shows that even the giving out of one single copy often results in many subscriptions returned, and the development of agents among clergymen, attorneys, business men, and other professional classes. The city clerk of Milwaukee, Wis., who is a contributor to Life and Health, says: “I have been interested in reading your magazine Liberty, and appreciate very much the numbers of Life and Health. Best wishes for the future of your work.”
The religious liberty secretary of the North Pacific Union Conference, sends this encouraging item: “Within less than one month, Elder F. S. Bunch and myself have secured more than 975 yearly subscriptions for the Protestant. I secured in two churches 410 subscriptions for Liberty.”
One of our lady agents in Philadelphia reports a sale of 28,633 ten-cent magazines during 1911, in 2,974 hours; an average sale of nearly ten copies an hour, a profit for each hour of over 57 cents. During this time she also distributed 40,575 pages of tracts.
One of our new subscribers says: “A copy of the Protestant Magazine for the fourth quarter, 1911, accidentally fell into my hands while unpacking furniture at the — house-furnishing store, at —, Pa. I am interested, and have decided to subscribe. Enclosed find 25 cents, also postage-stamp for reply.” G. G. S.
Another, W. H. W., of N. Brookfield, Mass., says: “I have just read Liberty for the first quarter, 1912, which is in our public library in this town. If you will mail me sample copies, I will try to interest others, and secure subscriptions to your valuable magazine.”
What are you doing to get these truth-filled magazines before the people in your community and elsewhere? Send 20 cents to your tract society for sample copy of Life and Health, Liberty, and the Protestant Magazine, asking for agency, territory, terms, etc.
A. J. S. BOURDEAU, Manager Magazine Department.