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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 44.

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Now Is the Time

By D. W. Reavis

THE long evenings have returned, and many of the people spend them in reading. This is the time of the year when books for the winter’s reading are generally selected. It is the best time to sell all kinds of books. Book agents are not unwelcome to a large class of people at this season of the year. They are rather a convenience in the selection of books.
We have an excellent list of books from which to select suitable reading for all classes in all places. All these books contain vital truths for this time, and they can be placed in the homes of the people with a little effort, and at the same time afford a fair remuneration for the services of the solicitor. The Lord has promised to supply the qualifications necessary to success in the sale of the books containing the message for this time, and has clearly stated that the placing of these books rapidly before the public is the very work that he would have his people do at this time.
We suggest that every member in every church in every conference arrange for immediate missionary book work. If we can spend only one hour a day on the smallest and cheapest book, let us plan definitely to do that now. Let the people—the whole people—begin now to do the very work the Lord would have them do, and there will spring up a great and mighty revival of the work in all its departments. The greatest need the cause has to-day is for a people with a mind to work for the dissemination of the printed message. It has ever been the experience in the work of our people that whenever the book work was prosperous, all branches of the work were in good condition, but when there was a lack in the circulation of literature, there was a corresponding depression in all departments. Let the people feel a personal responsibility in the general prosperity of the special message for this time, and let them go forth as individual workers for the printed message. D. W. REAVIS.