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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1909

The Summary

By A. J. S. B.

A GLANCE at this our sixth monthly summary of magazine sales shows the great possibilities that are wrapped up in home missionary work.

All will be glad to note the encouraging gain in the sales of the Watchman magazine, amounting to 7,186 copies.

The sale of our new magazine, Christian Education (published every other month), shows an increase of 885 over the previous month.

During the past six months 905,536 copies of our seven ten-cent magazines have been sold,— an average of 150,922 copies or $15,092.20 a month.

Substantial gains are shown in the sales report of the following union conferences: The Western Canadian, Lake, Pacific, and Southwestern. The other eight unions show a slight loss.

With the appointing of strong men as missionary secretaries of our union and local conferences, we may confidently expect a steady, healthy growth of the sale and distribution of all literature handled by our faithful home workers. This includes all our periodicals, magazines, tracts, leaflets, pamphlets, trade books, and forty-per-cent books.

This report shows a slight falling off in the number of magazines sold during November. This decrease of 4,717 copies, is largely accounted for by the fluctuations in the mailing lists and sales of Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, and the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor, the two former publications being quarterlies. A. J. S. B.