p. 24 | The Proposed Campaign for the “Signs of the Times”

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

The Proposed Campaign for the “Signs of the Times”

By Arthur G. Daniells

I HAVE read with great interest the plans set on foot for a large circulation of the Signs of the Times during the coming summer. These plans appeal to me as being timely, practical, and effective. Those who have inaugurated the plans announce the following:—

Beginning May 1, we will issue a series of twenty-six special numbers in which the truth will be taken up in about the same general order as is followed by our ministers in tent-meetings. These subjects will be well illustrated, supplemented by Bible readings, and presented in such a thorough, systematic, progressive way that they can not fail to interest and convince the honest in heart, and bring them to a saving knowledge of the truth. We are asking our people everywhere—every one of them, from the Atlantic to the Pacific—to subscribe for two, five, ten, fifty, or one hundred copies each, of this series, and in a systematic way, sell, give away, loan, or mail these papers to their friends and neighbors. Thus we hope to introduce a national movement which will mean the placing of at least one hundred thousand copies of the Signs of the Times each week in the homes of the people.

They then point out how some can devote the whole, or at least a large part, of their time to the sale of the paper; how our busy brethren and sisters can sell or give away, at least a few each week; how those tied at home can send copies to their friends in home and foreign fields; and how even invalids and aged people can join in this great campaign.

These plans must surely appeal to every lover of this cause who reads them. Why should not conference presidents and church elders take hold of this campaign with great earnestness?

In the early days of camp-meeting work in Australia our brethren and sisters used to sell from ten to thirty thousand copies of the Bible Echo in connection with the meeting. The whole camp would be organized for service, and the city would be divided and assigned to companies. A few hours each day were set apart for missionary service, when nearly the whole camp would go out with the paper. If this plan were carried out in all our State camp-meetings this summer, a great work would be done, and great blessings would come to both the workers and those for whom the work would be done.

Our time and message call for great zeal in the distribution of our literature. Its pages are to fall like the leaves of autumn, and the Signs campaign is one of the agencies for this wide distribution.

A. G. DANIELLS.