p. 20 | The March Advocate by M. Bessie De Graw

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1903

The March Advocate

By M. Bessie De Graw

THIS is not to urge you to send in subscriptions for the March Advocate, but to tell you that forty thousand copies of this issue will be placed in the hands of the secular teachers of the United States.

This does not by any means supply all our teachers, but it is a good beginning. If we could have the assurance that each month for at least a year, forty thousand teachers had their attention called to vital truths of the third angel’s message, we might look for great results.

It now becomes a serious problem. Shall we, as a people to whom God has given truth, withhold the light, or shall we let it shine? There are, right about us, within a stone’s throw of our houses, coming almost daily within the circle of our influence, an army of workers who are molding the destiny of the nation. Shall we organize a definite campaign to bring the truth to these people? Shall we go forward? If so, answer these questions: How much are you willing to do? Will you visit the teachers in your public schools each month, hand them reading-matter, and talk with them?

At least one State, Wisconsin, undertook to place a copy of the March Advocate

in the hands of every public school teacher: 16,650 copies were ordered by that State.

If this movement appeals to you, let us hear what you are willing to do in the future. God stirred your heart to assist in this virgin effort to reach the hearts of teachers with the truths of Christian education. He will bless the effort. Are you ready for more work?

M. BESSIE DE GRAW.