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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 26, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 34.

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By A. J. S. B.

ELDER WILLIAM COVERT, president of the Northern Illinois Conference, states that one lady worker in Chicago sells from 300 to 400 copies of the Signs Monthly a week. He says: ‘I wish we had fifty agents for it in this conference. Several of our people are selling 200 copies of the weekly Signs each week. There seems to be no limit to the amount of good that might be done if our people would arouse to the importance of circulating these papers.’ They used 3,100 copies of the Signs Monthly in one month, besides a large number of Life and Health and Liberty.
Brother R. C. Spohr, missionary secretary of the Indiana Conference, sends us the following interesting news: ‘From June 21, when our company assembled in Cincinnati, until August 10, the day we had the privilege of telling of our work before the large congregation at the Indiana camp-meeting, our magazine scholarship company of twelve workers sold 15,183 copies of our ten-cent magazines, divided, approximately, as follows: 10,000 Life and Health (1,000 June, 6,000 July, 3,000 August); 1,000 Watchman (July); 2,000 Signs Monthly (1,000 July, 1,000 August); 300 Temperance Youth’s Instructor; and the remainder, nearly 2,000 copies, of Liberty. We had a most enthusiastic periodical workers’ meeting yesterday afternoon, when our president, Elder Morris Lukens, assigned to our scholarship company the regular service in the large pavilion.’ Think of the many benefits derived by the public, the conference, and the agents, from this sale of $1,518.30 worth of magazines!
It is but fair to state that our June and July summaries do not, in one sense, do justice to Indiana, which sent its magazine scholarship company into adjoining States. The high standing of a number of these States is due almost entirely to the sales made by the Indiana workers, while Indiana itself, being temporarily deserted by its own force, appears at a disadvantage. However, we do not see how it is possible to tell our people “where” the magazines actually “go” in any other way than as in the past.
A. J. S. B.