A. J. S. B by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Dec 29, 1910

A. J. S. B

By A. J. S. B.

From the Field

BROTHER CHARLES LAKE, of the Signs of the Times office, reports most encouraging success with the Present Truth series of the Signs weekly. He says: “Every mail continues to bring subscriptions to this series. Our mailing-list has been increased by ten thousand. Many of those ordering clubs assure us of confidence in the Signs, and of support.” This series means an assured circulation of 250,000 more copies of the Signs than it would otherwise have enjoyed.

REPLYING to our General Letter No. 2, giving the experiences of one of our field missionary secretaries, Brother F. F. Byington, manager of the International Publishing Association, says: “We were much interested in reading the experiences of the field missionary secretary which you sent us. What a blessing it would be to our work if we had more such workers as he! We sincerely hope that more such workers may be developed in the future, particularly among our foreign churches.”

MANY of our readers often express a desire to do some practical missionary work, but say they do not know just what to do. To all such we offer the suggestion of taking the January Life and Health to all mothers in their community. Mothers will not only buy it, but will ever feel grateful to the one who brings it to them. The January issue of Life and Health is a mother’s number, a large part of it being devoted to answering the question, “Can we save the babies?” You can save life, and bless many homes, by the simple service of placing the January number of Life and Health in the hands of mothers. Order a few copies, and distribute them in your neighborhood.

BROTHER J. R. FERREN, the missionary secretary of the Pacific Union Conference, recently inaugurated a campaign in behalf of the REVIEW in connection with the week of prayer services. Personal correspondence has been taken up with church elders and librarians, urging the importance of placing “the REVIEW in every Sabbath-keeping home.” As he says, the success of this campaign “will be one of the greatest means of spiritual help which can come to our people.” Church elders and librarians desiring to know who are, and who are not, taking the REVIEW in their church should apply to their conference tract society office for this information, which will enable them to work intelligently.

“A FEW weeks ago, when the National Canadian Apple Show was held here” (Vancouver, British Columbia), writes Miss Bertha Lofstad, secretary of the British Columbia Tract Society, “the young people of one of our churches purchased fifteen hundred tracts, and pasted on the front of each tract a little slip, on which were printed the following words: ‘Apples of Gold. Preserve and Eat in Spare Moments. Address Apples of Gold Library, 1708 Maple St., Vancouver, British Columbia, for catalogue.’ These were given out at the entrance of the building, and also inside. One man who received one of the tracts sent in to-day for fifty cents’ worth of ‘Apples of Gold. Perserve and Eat’ (his exact words). We do not know how much good these little tracts may do.” There are many other ways in which these “silent messengers” may be used with telling effect. They are now put up in practical, assorted packages, costing fifty cents, one dollar, and five dollars. Order from your conference tract society.