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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 3, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 5.

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The Work — and — The Workers

SHOW it to others, as this brother did: “After having ordered your magazine as per your special offer, I showed the September number sent as a sample copy, to two fellow workers in my office, and they both have asked me to order one each for them as subscribers for one year. Enclosed find $2 to cover the subscriptions.”
WRITES W. H. Covell: “I have read the last number of the Protestant Magazine quite carefully, and have received some excellent help from it in relation to other work I have in hand. I have an inward conviction that the Protestant Magazine will give new life to the message we all represent, and we earnestly wish you Heaven’s choicest blessings, and a circulation of a million copies at no distant day.”
MANY people in all parts of the country are beginning to realize the practical value of Life and Health. The following quotation illustrates the way many are expressing themselves in regard to this health journal: “I have been reading your magazine for several months, and appreciate it very much, and think it worthy of high praise. Your directions are very helpful; and, altogether, I would miss a great deal of sunshine without it.”
AN isolated member, Mrs. I. T. Reynolds, who has recently learned of some of the many benefits of circulating Life and Health, writes as follows: “I wish all isolated members would order a few copies of Life and Health each month. They could use them in their immediate neighborhoods, and would find joy in the service associated with their circulation, and would also assist in spreading the good tidings to those about them. I can leave my home for only a little while, and then must hurry back to my ‘shut-in.’ But I find that Life and Health is a great introduction, which admits me into the most exclusive homes of this old Southern city, and very often I sell other and larger publications in the same families afterward. It is a good work, and I trust all who can do so will soon have a part in it.”
“ENCLOSED you will please find money-order for $6, in payment for 150 magazines. I sold them all in eight hours. I wish I might devote more time to selling this valuable paper, but I have the whole care of three small grandchildren, which takes nearly all my time.” Besides doing the very best kind of missionary work, and receiving herself a rich blessing, this sister cleared $1.12½ an hour while selling the 150 copies of Life and Health. Eight hours is the standard for a day’s work in ordinary vocations. The usual wages for the eight-hours’ service range from $1.50 to $2.50. Note the fact that this sister, who is old enough to be a grandmother, and has the complete charge of three small grandchildren, cleared $9 a day in her work with Life and Health. Let all mothers and grandmothers consider this effective and remunerative missionary work.
ONE of our regular Life and Health workers, in ordering more copies of the journal, favors us with the following statement: “Yesterday afternoon, between one and two o’clock, I went out and sold 35 copies of Life and Health alone.” This worker cleared $2.45 in one hour’s time.
ALL our people who have children should profit by the following testimonial: “I am 66 years old, and have been married 50 years. We celebrated our golden wedding the second of August. I have taken the REVIEW since 1882, and the Signs of the Times since 1881. I have seven children grown. One is a minister, one a doctor, two are trained nurses, one a canvassing agent, two are farmers, and all but one are in the truth, for which I thank the Lord; and I believe the papers have had a great deal to do with keeping the children in the truth. I can not afford to do without the REVIEW.”
At least 10,000 of our people ought to follow the example of Elder Watson Zeigler, who writes as follows: “A few days ago I saw a copy of the Protestant Magazine for the first time. It surely fills a long-felt want so far as Romanism is concerned. To my mind it ought to be helpful to us as a people in pointing others to God and his Word, rather than ecclesiastical effort. I realize that we are all doing all together too little to enlighten the people concerning this all-important theme. I herewith send you $1.50 for 10 copies of this magazine, which please send to my address. I believe I can place that many copies where they will do good.”
SAYS A. E. Everett: “Christian Education fills a long-felt want in the homes of our people, as well as in our schools. The true methods of Christian education are plainly set forth in such a manner as to be of the greatest value to our faithful mothers who feel burdened that their children shall receive a Christian education, yet do not know how to give the necessary instruction. The teachers in our schools can not afford to be without this educational journal. In make-up, the appearance of Christian Education will compare favorably with any educational journal printed. The type is large and clear, and altogether the journal makes a pleasing impression. We recommend it to our teachers and people in general.”
WE are constantly impressed with the results obtained by the aged in work with Life and Health. Those having good success are in every instance constant readers of the REVIEW. They seem to gather their inspiration from our leading church paper. Note the following: “Enclosed find post-office order for $9, for which please send Life and Health to the following 15 addresses. I also wish to renew my subscription for the REVIEW. I am a widow nearly 70 years of age, with little to do with; but I feel that I can not afford to do without the dear old REVIEW, which I have been taking over 40 years.” When a sister 70 years of age can turn in an order for 15 subscriptions, with the cash, it is about time for those in the prime of life to be considering their personal responsibility in connection with the circulation of our message-filled literature.
MANY of our workers are finding people outside of the denomination who are much interested in the “good old REVIEW.” We have just received a subscription sent in by one for a professor in a prominent business college. This worker was soliciting for donations for missions, and the professor became interested in the paper itself, as well as in the missions, and gave the worker one dollar to apply on his subscription.
ONE of our Life and Health workers who has taught his family the science of soliciting for our magazines, writes as follows: “My children alone have made as high as $10 in one day, and never fall below $5 or $6 a day. They work only about half the time when the weather is so warm. Their mother has made as high as $18 in a day and a half. My little boy is 13 years old, and my little girl is 11.”
NEVER too old to sell Life and Health. When an aged person, bright and spry, presents Life and Health, it gives one the impression that doubtless the agent has something that has helped him to live so long and so well, and one buys whatever he offers, through confidence in the worker. The following is the testimonial from one of our aged successful workers: “Please find $1.50 as the renewal price of my paper. I have sold Life and Health for the past two years. I am 81 years old, and well. I put in all the time I can canvassing for our periodicals.”
THE following letter has just been received: “I picked up a copy of your magazine in the road, read it, liked it very much, and herewith enclose 25 cents, for which please send me the Protestant Magazine for one year, and oblige.” This is still another proof that the Protestant Magazine recommends itself. In the first place, its name is sufficient to arrest the attention of either Protestant or Catholic, and its contents being the plain third angel’s message, and that message being sent of God for this special time, all the powers and hindrances of earth can not keep it from sincere, truth-loving people. Let not our people, through the cares of life or the lack of a keen conception, fail to discharge their obligations in so plain a duty as generously circulating the Protestant Magazine.
IN the Saviour’s command to cast your bread upon the waters that it may be gathered after many days, is given the promise of fulfilment. Oftentimes our circulators of literature become discouraged because they do not see immediate results of their labor. For the benefit of such, we quote the following, which comes as the result of the sale of the Youth’s Instructor: “Please find enclosed $1. I wish a half-year’s subscription for your Youth’s Instructor, beginning with the December number, and I desire you to send our Sunday-school superintendent as many copies of the Temperance number as you can for the other 50 cents. That is the only copy of the paper I have seen, and I think it will do much good in our neighborhood. I have read it with great interest, every word of it, and with decided approval; hence, my subscription.”