The Summary

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 18, 1913

WHILE we regret that our summaries this month are somewhat smaller than for the corresponding month last year, we are glad to report that the totals for the first seven months of 1913 show a substantial gain, in both the home and foreign fields in both book and periodical sales, over the same period last year. We naturally rejoice over the exceptionally large reports which we get, especially from the home field, during this portion of the year, but we rejoice more to see the steady growth that is being made from month to month.

In a letter received from Brother R. L. Pierce, manager of the Fort Worth Branch of the Southern Publishing Association, we read: “The sales of the Fort Worth Branch for the first six months of this year show an increase of sixty-one per cent over the corresponding period of 1912. Every month thus far during 1913 has shown a substantial gain over the corresponding month of last year.” It is this steady, constant increase which counts most for the permanent growth in our colporteur work. The earnest efforts of the leaders in this branch of the work, to bring about this permanent growth, are being richly rewarded.