Our Publishing Work by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 15, 1906

Our Publishing Work

By Editor

The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. Psalm 68:11.

To the Readers of the Review

Dear Friends:

The year 1906 is fast passing, but it has recorded many developments in our work, especially here in Washington. Where was recently wooded land, now stand our new office buildings, and those who have passed by at night have seen in the place of darkness, light shining from many windows, indicating that work is going on night and day. We are glad this has been so. We appreciate the great demand for our publications, and our great regret is that we have not been able to supply these demands without delay.

The holiday season, the best of the year for the sale of our publications, is now just before us, and we must plan for it at once. At this time of the year the people will buy books for their children and friends. What a grand opportunity, which comes but once a year, to place in their hands publications containing present truth! We might cite many instances to show that success has crowned the efforts of our workers during October, but space forbids; yet, taken collectively, we have sold from this office alone during October 10,130 subscription books, 64,123 tracts and pamphlets, and 1,186 trade books, with a total retail value of $15,286.94.

Our periodicals have also been generously patronized during the past year; but now is the time of the year when many subscriptions expire, and people are making up their periodical orders for the coming year. Such papers as “Life and Health,” “Liberty,” “The Watchman,” and “The Signs of the Times” can be successfully placed in many homes just now if attention is called to them. The good old “Review” ought to be in many more homes, and all “Review” readers should provide themselves with good clubs of the denominational missionary papers, “The Signs of the Times,” “The Watchman,” “Life and Health,” and “Liberty.” These papers can be sold by a little effort for five cents a copy. The commission on them will return a fair remuneration for the time spent. The average profits on “Life and Health” and “Liberty” during the past year were 25 cents an hour. The results for good in the circulation of these important journals represent an incalculable value. It would require the entire space of this issue of the “Review” to record even the results reported, and all know that only a few are ever reported. We trust the Lord will inspire his people with a zeal in keeping with the importance of this line of work, and that through their efforts the present winter months may be the most prosperous of the year.

We expect November and December to far exceed the previous months of the present year, and we appeal to our “Review” readers to make arrangements at once to join in the distribution of our publications. While some can engage in this work wholly for the good to be realized, others must keep in mind the supplying of the necessities of life. To both classes, this season of the year affords exceptional spiritual and temporal remuneration.

Write to your nearest publishing house or State tract society, or to us, suggesting your preference for any particular line of work, and your communication will receive prompt attention.

Trusting the remaining weeks of the year 1906 may be a climax to the good work which has been accomplished in the sale of our publications during the preceding months, and that a great army of workers will respond to this call, we are,

Yours for the advancement of the message,

Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.