p. 21 | News and Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

News and Notes

WE are indebted to Brother A. J. S. Bourdeau, manager of the magazine department of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, for the following notes and experiences:—

The rapidity with which the last three large editions of Life and Health have sold, is shown by the following: The June edition of 50,000 copies was sold by June 7; the July edition of 65,000 copies was disposed of by July 8; and the August edition of 72,000 copies was sold by August 13.

ONE of our successful magazine agents is a deaf mute. In a recent letter she writes:—

“Last winter I sold 350 copies of Life and Health in several small towns. They sold readily, although I could not give a canvass, not being able to read aloud or to talk. With the money I earned, I helped to pay my sister’s expenses while she was attending —— Academy.”

Her last order was for fifty copies of the August number.

AT the recent camp-meeting held in Montana, the tract society of that conference made provision for sending Liberty to four hundred of the leading attorneys of that State. We are pleased to report other large orders of this kind for both Liberty and the Protestant Magazine.

AN aged brother in California makes the following request:—

“Please remember me at your noon prayer season. Ask the Lord, if it is his will, to heal me so that I can carry the printed pages to the people who are hungering for the message of truth for this time. I am almost seventy years old, and a cripple, suffering with rheumatism. I have a standing order for 100 copies of Life and Health each month. I am also selling the Signs of the Times and the Watchman.”

Let us not forget to pray for this aged brother, as well as for the other faithful workers who are going from door to door with our publications.

ONE of our brethren in New Jersey, a successful worker with Life and Health, relates the following interesting experience:—

“One lady who gave me her subscription, said that she took her daughter last year to a sanitarium to be operated upon. She spoke in a very friendly way of the kind treatment she had received, saying that what she had seen and learned there had proved a great help to herself and family. She realized that there is something more to sanitarium work than the commercial side, and told me of the spiritual help she received while there. She said, ‘It would not take me long to become converted to their faith.’”

ONE of our successful scholarship workers writes as follows, from Wisconsin:—

“We have been enjoying the magazine work this summer. Since June 1, 1911, my sister and I have succeeded in disposing of 3,825 magazines, our largest sale being 400 copies in six hours.”

Since this time we received another order from this young woman for 1,575 copies of the August number of Life and Health, making a grand total of 5,400 copies sold by her and her sister since June 1, or 2,700 copies a month.

“PLEASE grant me 79 copies of the current issue,” writes the superintendent of the largest Sunday Bible School (1,000 members) in Buffalo, N. Y. “This valuable publication [Life and Health], gotten up with such exceeding beauty and merit, should be in the homes of many of our families. Will see that you have as fine a notice from the platform next Sunday one week, as you would care to receive.” This gentleman is a railway ticket agent.