Our Publishing Work by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 12, 1906

Our Publishing Work

By Editor

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

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WITHIN the past few weeks, the Review and Herald has received orders for 1,235 copies of “Christ in Song,” 2,100 of “Bible Readings,” 1,108 of “Daniel and the Revelation.” We have also received orders for 65 prospectuses for “Bible Readings,” 18 for “Daniel and the Revelation,” and 47 for “Great Controversy.” We are especially pleased with the recent demands for prospectuses. It looks as if somebody was going to work.

EVERY person professing faith in the second coming of Christ, and through the inspiration of that faith desiring to do something for humanity, should secure a copy of “Pointers to Success.” This booklet of 72 pages is the fruit of long experience and observation in several countries, amid varying circumstances, and is therefore filled with excellent suggestions for all who are seeking to know how to render better personal service in saving souls. It will do any one good to read it. It is rich in thought and sound in practise. Price, only ten cents, post-paid.

IN South Dakota, during the month ending May 31, nine agents for our subscription books have worked 1,389 hours, and secured 429 orders valued at $1,206.25. Counting twenty days to the month, this would mean $6.70 for the average day’s work of 7½ hours. In addition to the subscription books sold, $84.15 worth of helps was sold, which would bring the average total sales per week to over $35. These figures are only the average taken from the total. Some agents did not report full time, so the returns of those putting in the most time are, of course, the largest. The Lord is good pay. It is a mistake to imagine that an active, consecrated man or woman can not make a living selling the books containing the message for this time.

WONDERFUL achievements have been made in the perfecting of the fountain pen. Fountain pens have now become a practical and useful article among all classes and professions. The Waterman Company offer to duplicate in their fountain pens the writing qualities of any steel pen manufactured. A recent invention added to the Waterman fountain pen, known as the “spoon feed,” removes all possibility of blots. These little spoons hold the ink in check until the action of the pen requires it, and flow the ink promptly and evenly the instant the pen touches the paper, removing the possibility of spilling the ink by the common thrusting of the pen against the hand or otherwise to start the flow of the ink. Another invention added to the Waterman pen is the “clip cap,” joined to the cap of the pen to securely hold it in the pocket. The price of the standard pen, having all the latest improvements, is $2.75. Without the “clip cap,” $2.50. We also handle other styles, guaranteed by their makers, with a greater capacity for ink, decorated holders, larger pens, etc., at higher prices. Address Review and Herald Publishing Association.

A STRANGER recently wrote to Liberty to thank its editors for “the glorious principles set forth in the April issue.” He wished the magazine “Godspeed,” and pledged his hearty support in the promulgation of the principles it advocated. This man said he just happened to buy a copy of a boy who was selling it, and that he felt more thankful than he could express for the knowledge of the fact that there were those who felt the importance and value of liberty enough to put forth such a sound, clean-cut magazine. There are thousands just like this man, and thousands more who could be made to realize the importance of the fundamental principles of religious liberty as he does. Who will, therefore, help to sell Liberty, that others may have its benefits?

THE second number of Liberty will bear date of July, and will be ready for mailing when this issue of the REVIEW reaches our readers. The magazine is published quarterly, the first number being issued in April. Though an announcement of the publication of Liberty was not made until March, when the busy season was just beginning, 45,000 copies of the first number were circulated during April, May, and June, and the publishers have received frequent requests to keep this first number in print, so it can be secured when desired to give a clear statement of the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty. In the second number of Liberty the important question, Are Sunday laws essential to good government? is prominently considered. The titles of some of the articles are as follows: Sunday Laws and Good Government; Does the Sabbath Need Protection? State Sabbath Versus the Divine Sabbath; Recent Sunday Crusade Developments in Pennsylvania; Do Working Men Need Sunday Laws? The Lesson of the California Earthquake; A Rejoinder; A Modern Christian City; The Question of “Whose Ox?” Things Move; Christian Liberty; Notes on Current Religious Legislation; Man in the Place of God; The Railway Rate Bill and the Sabbath; Sunday Legislation in Louisiana; The Present Church Federation Movement—What Does it Mean? What Will Save the Nation?

Single copy per annum, including extras, 25 cents; single copy of regular issues, 5 cents; single copy of an extra, according to size; five or more copies a year to different addresses, one order, 15 cents a copy; ten or more copies a year to one address, one order, 15 cents a copy; twenty-five or more copies of any one issue, one order, one address, two and one-half cents a copy.

Orders for any publication mentioned on this page may be sent to any conference tract society or to Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C., or Battle Creek, Mich.

Also Pacific Press Publishing Company, Mountain View, Cal.; Portland, Ore.; Kansas City, Mo.; Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Worth, Tex.