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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 10, 1910

THE WORK — AND — THE WORKERS

A TRAVELING salesman sends in a list of thirteen Protestant Magazine subscriptions, and writes as follows: “After receiving the Protestant Magazine you sent me, I felt impressed to take a copy with me on the road and introduce it among the people in the stores, to whom I sell goods; so I did, and the enclosed list is the result of my short effort.”

If all our members possessed the zeal and earnestness of the sister we quote below, our periodical workers would be greatly increased, and we believe the members themselves would be materially benefited: “Enclosed please find post-office money-order to pay for the 25 copies of Life and Health you sent me. I want 25 copies of the next number. I received the sample number you sent me, and thank you for it. I wish I could handle more each month, but I have my hands so full of home cares that I feel I can not do more now. I take my two children, one four years of age, and the other fifteen months, with me. Some people look as if they could not understand why I do it, but our dear Lord knows, and I believe he is pleased to have me do what little I can.”

WRITES one of our workers: “I can assure you I do fully realize that your magazine supplies a long-felt need and has forcibly taken hold of the minds of the solid business men who do their own thinking. I have sent it out in various States where I have business friends, and 39 subscribed for one year. A friend at Rochester, N. Y., sold ten copies to one woman for her individual use. One copy I sold to a business man, a class-leader in the M. E. Church. The next time I saw him, he said it was amazing the amount of information the Protestant Magazine contained. A member of his church afterward told me the class-leader gave them one of the most pointed talks at their prayer-meeting that she ever heard. He told them they were all asleep, but would get a ‘jar some day that would make them sit up and think.’”

MRS. L. M. RUSSELL, who is 76 years of age, and who has been a regular worker with Life and Health during the years 1907 and 1908, has recently partially recovered from a severe attack of the la grippe, following a severe attack of pleuratic neuralgia, yet she orders a supply of Life and Health with which to continue the work which she very much enjoys, and which she says needs to be done. In connection with her order she writes: “My health did not improve very much during the past summer, but I am now much better than I was in the spring, and as I want very much to have a part in the work with the special REVIEW, I will have to work in Warren, a few miles from home. I think I can also sell some copies of Life and Health and Liberty, and so have sent in an order to our tract society for the same.” With that kind of spirit in any work none need fear of its success. There are a large number just like this faithful sister engaged in the periodical work.

It pays to send the Protestant Magazine to others. Here is one of the many proofs we might give: “Dear Sir: Some friend has been sending me the magazine. I am interested in it to the extent that I would like to know that it was in every house in the land. Enclosed you will find seventy-five cents to pay for the three enclosed subscriptions for one year. Send me such matter as will assist in getting subscribers for the magazine. I will do all I can to assist you in the good work you have undertaken.”

THOSE who have been connected with the message for years fully appreciate the value of the REVIEW. No greater temporal misfortune could come to them than to be deprived of its faithful visits and constant messages of the progress of the Lord’s work, and the inspiration, courage, and faith it always brings. The following attests to this statement: “Enclosed find post-office money-order for $2 to apply on my REVIEW, which I love dearly. I can not think of keeping house without it, having read it since 1859. I pray that God will bless you abundantly in your good work. I also wish to thank you for making the REVIEW better and better as we draw nearer to the close of this world’s history.”

OUR periodical workers are rapidly learning how to turn their hands to anything that comes along, especially in the way of periodical distribution. The following from Sister J. L. Pettis illustrates the point: “I received your letter stating that you had filled my order for 100 copies of the Instructor, but when I went to St. Peters, where I expected to sell them, I opened them, and behold, they were the special REVIEW! To say I was disappointed puts it mildly. However, as I could not get away, I concluded that the Lord wanted me to distribute the REVIEW in St. Peters, which I did in a day and a half. I have $6.40 in donations, and three papers left. When I dispose of these, I will send the money to our conference secretary. I had an experience I would not have had if the mistake had not been made, and I am thankful for it.”