Like Autumn Leaves by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 6, 1906

Like Autumn Leaves

By W. A. S.

THE literature of the message is to fall like autumn leaves, as the final warning is carried to the world.

One is reminded of this as he reads of thirty-five or forty tons of paper being used in one issue of one of our papers in the United States.

In the over-sea fields, also, the volume of literature is pouring forth in an ever-widening and deepening stream of blessing.

It is cheering to drop into our European publishing centers on any working day, and to see and hear the whirring presses producing the silent messengers of the Lord's soon coming.

In London I saw the printed sheets dropping from the delivery frames of the various presses like leaves dropping from the trees in autumn. The London periodicals alone have a circulation of about one hundred and twenty-five thousand copies a month.

The same encouraging scene is presented in the Hamburg House. Their periodicals in various languages have a circulation of over one hundred thousand monthly.

In all Europe our periodicals are falling from the presses at the rate of over a quarter of a million monthly. And besides this, we thank God for the shower of tracts and large literature falling like autumn leaves among these millions of Europeans.

It is a polyglot staff that one greets in the overcrowded composing-room of the Hamburg House, and they are turning out a truly polyglot (many-tongued) product. This office prints in German, Hollandish (Dutch), Russian, Slavonian, and Slavakish (of the Balkan States), Esthonian and Lettish (Baltic Russia), Polish, Hungarian, Servian, and Rumanian.

The Spirit of God is working among the millions of Europe. He is doing a wonderful work before our eyes, and that by simple means and agencies. A glorious harvest is being reaped from the sowing of past years.

W. A. S.