THE WORK - AND - THE WORKERS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 2, 1909

THE WORK — AND — THE WORKERS

THE Upper Columbia Tract Society recently sent in a list of 102 yearly subscriptions for Liberty.

THE Southern California Tract Society sends in an order for 1,000 copies of the September Life and Health.

THE missionary secretary of the Indiana Conference, R. C. Spohr, sends in a rush order for 1,000 copies of Liberty.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS sends its first order for 2,000 copies of the September number of Life and Health. This conference purposes to use 5,000 of the September issue.

B. C. HAAK, missionary secretary of North Dakota, says: “Heretofore our people had nothing prepared for them to do. Now we have work, and are learning how to do it, and the Lord is truly blessing us in our missionary efforts, and we feel thankful for a part in giving the message.”

A WORKER in New Zealand, in ordering the Protestant Magazine, has the following to say about the Sabbath School Worker: “I prize the Sabbath School Worker more and more each month. Its articles on general Sabbath-school work are helpful in conducting Sabbath-school, and are also useful in instructing our young people who are just beginning to assume responsibilities of offices in our Sabbath-schools. The thoughts expressed on the lessons from week to week are also much appreciated.” Thousands of others are expressing as strongly their appreciation of the Worker. All Sabbath-school workers and teachers should have it. It is a valuable help.

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T. D. GIBSON, missionary secretary of the Northern Union Conference, writes that the missionary work in his field is going away beyond the bounds of anything they have seen for some time.

A SISTER in Minnesota, who had never attempted to sell any of our papers, a few days ago went into the country. She called at sixteen houses, and sold ten copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. This is a splendid beginning—it is only a beginning for this sister, she having thus early and promptly decided to make paper selling a part of her regular business.

A LADY student attending the University of California sends two yearly subscriptions for the Protestant Magazine, and requests that she be allowed to act as agent for the same. She says: “A copy of your magazine came to me last week. I read every word of it, and know from my studies that its history is right, and its conclusions in regard to the present intentions of the Jesuit church are true. I am so much in accord with your work that I should like to be a worker. I enclose two subscriptions.” As a class, university students are quite generally opposed to the dogmatic claims and theology of the Roman Catholic Church. Wyclif, Huss, Jerome, Luther, and the other leading Protestant Reformers were all strongly supported by the student bodies of the English, Bohemian, and German universities. We suggest that our conference tract societies lay plans to enlist the co-operation of their churches in mailing a sample copy of this excellent magazine to every college and university student within their territory. The magazines may be ordered in quantities at the following rates: 5 to 20 copies, 5 cents each; 25 to 400 copies, 4 cents; 500 to 800 copies, 3½ cents; 1,000 or more, 3 cents. The postage will cost our missionary societies two cents a copy in addition to the above rates. If preferred, however, we will address and mail the magazine from this Office, to five or more separate addresses, at the rate of five cents a copy. The names and home addresses of the students will generally be found in the college or university calendars. The faculty of each institution should also be supplied with copies.

ALL are pleased with the beautiful photo-effect produced on our September cover. Have you seen the September Life and Health? In contents and appearance it is ahead of all previous numbers.

NUMEROUS pastors of Lutheran and other Protestant churches have hastened to send us their congratulations on the excellent appearance and timely contents of the Protestant Magazine.

Two lady agents visited the periodical department recently to secure a few “pointers” for selling Liberty. They will visit a number of the great cities of the East, selling the magazines. They ordered fifteen hundred copies of Liberty and Life and Health.

THE following letter is just received. We give it as a sample of many that come to us: “Find enclosed $1, for which please send me copies of the Protestant Magazine. I find that this magazine sells readily, is read with interest, and is greatly appreciated by the people.”

DAISY M. BUTKA, of Omaha, Neb., began work with Life and Health last May. She sold 500 of the May number, and 1,000 each of June, July, and August. Of her work, she says: “I have ordered of you, 3,500 copies of Life and Health since May 15. Of this number, 2,500 have been placed in the residences of Omaha, and the remainder in the business portion of the city. I believe much more good can be accomplished by placing them in the homes of the people than in any other way. I average about 60 sales a day in resident work, and 100 a day in the business portion of the city. The work from house to house is harder than work in the business portion of a town, but God has given me strength to work every day during this long, hot summer.” The sale of this large amount of good literature, with the average of $4.20 profit a day in selling our periodicals from door to door, is large enough to cause many of our people to think seriously of their privileges and opportunities to do a similar work.

IRA S. JONES, of Toronto, Canada, in sending in seventy-one subscriptions for the Protestant, says he finds that people in Canada subscribe readily for the Protestant Magazine; that the same dangers threaten true Protestantism there as in the United States; that not only does open opposition attack from without, but Higher Criticism in many places is insidiously honeycombing the structure of Protestantism. Its baneful seed has taken root, and a less sharper instrument than the Protestant Magazine would fail in uprooting the evil planted in the hearts of honest people. It is being steadily demonstrated that the Protestant Magazine is as much in demand in other countries as it is in the United States.