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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 26, 1911

The Magazine Summary

By A. J. S. B.

THE accompanying summary of magazine sales for the month of December, 1910, closes last year's record. We are unable to give a column showing the corresponding sales in each conference, as is usually done; for our summary for December, 1909, did not give a complete report for each conference. However, in the comparative summary, the reader will be able to compare the grand total of sales for each month of 1909 with the corresponding months of 1910. The gain has not been phenomenal, but it has been steady and healthy, and we trust that a good foundation is being laid for a steady growth, and a large, permanent distribution of our ten-cent magazines.

The sale of ten-cent magazines is a comparatively new work in our Publishing Department; but the faithful efforts and good success of our agents during 1910 give added confidence that this work is taking a permanent, steady place, and will become a great factor in carrying the third angel's message, especially in the large cities. We trust that all our conferences, as they organize their city work, will lay broad, progressive plans, and make satisfactory arrangements for selecting and training agents, and for giving the necessary help to the membership in our churches, so that our missionary periodicals may do the work which God designs for them in our church tract and missionary societies and in the hands of an army of well-trained, faithful canvassers.

A. J. S. B.