Ministry of Healing by E. R. Palmer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 25, 1907

“Ministry of Healing”

By E. R. Palmer

IN response to many requests and suggestions from the field, the officers of the Relief Bureau have conferred with the officers of the General Conference and have secured more favorable terms for the handling of “Ministry of Healing.” The revised plan, which went into effect April 1, 1907, is as follows:—

1. “Ministry of Healing” will in future be furnished by publishing houses and their branches to the State tract societies at 55 cents a copy, freight prepaid.

2. Publishing houses will collect this selling price from State tract societies according to their established arrangement on other accounts.

3. Tract societies will furnish these books to the people at $1.50 a copy, postpaid, and will collect for the same according to their usual custom, or as may be satisfactorily arranged in their territory.

4. State tract societies will receive five cents a copy for handling the business, and will turn over ninety cents a copy for sanitarium work, either to the union conference treasury, the State conference treasury, or direct to the sanitarium being benefited, according to the arrangements and wishes of the union conference.

5. State tract societies will prepay postage on such books as must be sent by post, and will charge this expense up to the “Ministry of Healing” fund already mentioned, of which they are custodians.

6. Wherever it seems desirable to either the union conference or State conference officers having any enterprise in charge to have the books handled in any given territory by the sanitarium receiving the benefits from sales in that territory, the publishing houses will furnish “Ministry of Healing” directly to the sanitariums in such cases at fifty-five cents a copy, and the sanitarium will distribute the books and handle its own expenses and funds.

7. Any conference, tract society, or sanitarium having a section of this relief work in charge can obtain “Ministry of Healing” from the publishing houses at fifty cents a copy by ordering five hundred copies in one shipment, paying two hundred and fifty dollars, cash with the order, for the same.

The above plan will not affect any features of the work with the “Ministry of Healing” not mentioned among these items. The division of territory will remain the same. The same institutions will be benefited by the sale of the books, the union conferences will still have charge of the work and decide how the funds shall be appropriated and handled within its territory. It has been our object in making this arrangement to simplify the work and make it a greater source of revenue for the sanitariums.

We trust that our union and State conference presidents and sanitarium managers will take up the work upon this new basis with renewed interest and make it a gratifying success.

E. R. PALMER, Sec. Relief Bureau.