The “Review” War Extra Used to Advertise a Camp Meeting

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 15, 1915

The “Review” War Extra Used to Advertise a Camp Meeting

At a home missionary meeting held one morning at the beginning of the Chesapeake Conference camp meeting, the utility of circulating the Review War Extra as an advertisement for the meeting was presented; and when the people present saw that this little paper would be a splendid answer to the query in the minds of the people, “What do these things mean?” and that it would in addition give those who received it a desire to attend the meeting, they ordered 10,000 copies, and arrangements were made to leave a paper in every home in the community, so far as the 10,000 copies would make this possible.

Between thirty and forty of the laborers responded to the call for volunteers in the distribution, and these went out in companies. The papers were handed to the people, and an invitation was given all to attend the evening services at the camp. This effort not only accomplished its purpose in advertising the meeting, but it brought a missionary spirit into the meeting at the very beginning, and all the members returned from their work happy and strengthened in having had the privilege and the blessing resulting from handing out the literature.

Other camp meetings might profitably follow the example of the Chesapeake meeting. It will take only a half day for the people, while the committees are preparing to report.