Sanitarium Relief Campaign by L. A. Hansen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 14, 1910

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. Hansen

Further Details of the Campaign

THE recommendations for the sanitarium relief campaign advise that each member shall sell two copies of “Ministry of Healing” and five copies of Life and Health each year for the next three years. It requires some planning and effort to carry out this apparently easy task. The details are left to the various conferences for arrangement.

The success of this undertaking rests in co-operation.

The author of “Ministry of Healing,” Mrs. E. G. White, has given the book, without royalty, to this relief work.

The Review and Herald Publishing Association is publishing the book at cost of manufacture.

The distributing centers, union and local, will handle the book without profit.

Those who sell the book and the journals will give their time without remuneration.

The funds will be sent to the union conference treasuries, to be applied on the indebtedness of our sanitariums as may be arranged by union conferences.

It is expected to realize at least one dollar on each copy of the book, above the cost of publishing and expense of handling it.

The cost of publishing an edition of the book is considerable—for paper, printing, and binding. Inasmuch as the publishers do not make a profit on this work, they are not in position to carry the expense of it.

There is no fund on hand to meet the outlay.

It will be necessary to conduct the enterprise on a cash basis as nearly as possible.

The book “Ministry of Healing” sells for one dollar and a half. The journal Life and Health sells at ten cents a copy. These may be secured through the local tract and missionary society. They will be billed to the purchaser at the full retail price.

If you can pay cash for your books and journals, do so. If this is not possible, then make satisfactory arrangement with the office for settlement. In some cases this may be done by agreeing to sell the books and journals at once and turn in the proceeds. The office can then settle with the publishers for the wholesale price, and the rest of the proceeds can be applied to the object of the campaign.

It is desirable to make the expense of handling the book as small as possible. In many instances they may be shipped from the office with other books. When shipments of “Ministry of Healing” or Life and Health are made alone, they should be prepaid by the office, so that the expense fund may be kept track of easily. The office will then take out the expenses before remitting to the union conference treasury.

There is not much complication in the plan, and there should not be much difficulty in carrying it out.

L. A. HANSEN.