p. 19 | Notes on the Summary by E. R. P.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 4, 1909

Notes on the Summary

By E. R. P.

THE monthly summary for 1909 begins its record promptly on time.

A new feature has been added to this January report. The column showing the total sales in each conference during January, 1909, is followed by a column showing the totals during the corresponding month last year. This feature will be continued if desired.

By looking up the summaries for November and December of last year, and placing them beside this one, it will be observed that several union conferences have won a great victory on the question of winter canvassing by holding their records strong and steady through the winter months.

We feel to congratulate most cordially both canvassers and leaders in the union conferences included in the territories of the Review and Herald and Southern publishing associations on the substantial gain they have made in book sales, and in the progress attained in perfecting the reporting system.

We are also greatly pleased with the addition to our list of reports from foreign fields. Our brethren far out on the frontier, where the work is not so fully organized, have co-operated very actively in the effort to make our summary complete. We cordially invite our brethren in this service to give this summary careful study. It will bear study, for many valuable lessons may be learned from it.

The gain for January, 1909, over January, 1908, is the largest gain we have made during January for the past five years, as shown by the comparative summary.

We invite the earnest co-operation of all the workers in this department in an effort to strengthen the weak places in our summary, and make it as perfect as lies within our power during each month of the present year.

E. R. P.