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Good News Concerning the Earthquake Special Literature

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 14, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 24.

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Good News Concerning the Earthquake Special Literature

By E. R. Palmer

A BRIEF note has just come to hand from Brother H. H. Hall, manager of the Circulating Department of the Pacific Press, which reads as follows:—
“To-day, May 29, orders for the Earthquake Number of the Signs of the Times amount to nearly six hundred thousand copies. This is the greatest circulation ever given a single number of the Signs of the Times. More than thirty-five tons of paper have been used on this edition alone. Orders are still being received at the rate of about ten thousand a day. Price 3 cents each in less than a thousand lots, 2½ cents each for a thousand or more copies to one name and address.”
This will be good news to our people who love to see the dear old message go as never before. Somehow there is a ring of strength and assurance in the statement, “going as never before.” Long before this paragraph is read by our people throughout the field the same will have reached one or two hundred thousand more. What a blessed thing it is to see the record climbing so rapidly toward one million copies.
Another car-load of paper has just arrived, and orders have been given to the pressroom for another hundred thousand copies which will bring the total up to seven hundred thousand. Two more car-loads of paper are on the way, and it seems evident that the Pacific Press will now be able to supply these specials as rapidly as they are needed.
Brother Hall has also reported to me that thousands of copies of the illustrated booklet are being ordered. The news stands are selling these booklets at the rate of fifty to one hundred copies a day. There was never such an opportunity before for our people to sell the truth in popular form. The tract which was promised will soon be ready.
The price of the booklet is twenty-five cents a copy with special discounts to agents. The price of the tract “The Earthquake: Its Lessons,” is 1 cent each, 80 cents per hundred, $7.50 per thousand.
E. R. PALMER, Sec. Gen. Conf. Pub. Dept.