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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Apr 1, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 13.

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The Work and the Workers

By Editor

A SECOND edition of the “1909 Year Book” is on the press. Place your order at once. Price, 25 cents.
“CHRIST’S SECOND COMING” is one of the best tracts which we publish on the signs of Christ’s soon coming, from a Bible view-point. Price, $2 a hundred; 24 cents a dozen; post-paid.
THE retail value of our periodical sales during the year 1908 amounted to over one hundred forty-three thousand dollars, an amount nearly equal to the value of our subscription and trade book sales.
EARLY in April the Young People’s Missionary Volunteer Reading Course enters upon the study of “Daybreak in the Dark Continent.” Have you purchased your copy? Cloth, 50 cents; paper, 40 cents.
ONE thing we know! you will be delighted with the Liberty magazine for the second quarter, in its new, two-color dress. And its contents are better than ever. After reading it, you will want to give it a wide circulation.
CONFERENCE laborers will find “a place for everything,” in the “Conference Laborer’s Record.” Space is given for a daily record of the work done, cash account, addresses, etc. Neatly and strongly bound. Price 50 cents, post-paid.
JUST before going to press, we received a telegram from one of our general agents, ordering twenty-two hundred fifty copies of the Liberty magazine for the first quarter, to be sent ahead of him to ten different cities. This brother has contracted to sell fifteen thousand copies of every issue of this magazine.
Two hundred seven pages is a good deal for 19 cents. Yet this is precisely what is given in the “Health Library,” a set of fifteen tracts, consisting of ten “Life and Health Leaflets” and five “Life and Health Series.” Remember, only 19 cents. Why not send a few sets to your friends?
FROM far-off California we have just received an order for one thousand copies of Liberty magazine and five hundred copies of the April Life and Health, to be sold during their first camp-meeting, soon to be held at Chico, California. Michigan, Colorado, and Iowa at present lead all other States in the number of agents selling our periodicals.
HEREAFTER please do not send less than 50 cents when subscribing for the Review, the Youth’s Instructor, or Life and Health. According to a recent action of the Review and Herald Board, subscriptions for these three periodicals must be accompanied by not less than 50 cents. This, of course, does not apply to subscriptions sent in for Liberty magazine, the Protestant Magazine, or the Sabbath School Worker, the yearly subscription prices of these being less than 50 cents.
THE “Millennial Dawn Theory” is well handled in the tract, “False Hope of a Second Probation,” W. T. S. 48. Price, 2 cents each; $2 a hundred.
THE new paper-covered edition of “The Great Second Advent Movement” is now ready. Price, 50 cents, post-paid. Order of your tract society.
THE book department has just received a new style of Bible called the “Open Flat.” A post-card will bring a full description of all the special features contained in this excellent style.
THE Review and Herald book department shows a gain for the first two months of 1909 of 36 per cent over the same period last year. We praise the Lord for the prosperity he is giving.
ALTHOUGH it is only the twenty-fourth of March, our orders for the April issue of Life and Health amount to several thousand. The Northern Illinois Tract Society has just telegraphed for three thousand copies.
“THY love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women,” said David in speaking of Jonathan. You will appreciate the Old Testament record of David and Jonathan doubly, after reading “A Man of Valor.” Order to-day. Cloth, 75 cents, post-paid.
“ENCLOSED find draft for $31.50,” writes a brother in Indiana, “for which please send at once one thousand copies of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor, and renew my Review subscription for one year. Awaiting your earliest reply.” This recent order is but an indication of the popular demand for this excellent number of the Instructor.
NEARLY two thousand people have availed themselves of the opportunity offered in “The Speaker’s Manual of Pronunciation.” Have you? No one need to pronounce incorrectly who devotes a little time to a study of the list of words found in “The Speaker’s Manual.” The book lists over two thousand words commonly mispronounced. Cloth, 25 cents; leather, 50 cents.
“PLEASE send twenty-five copies of the April Life and Health,” writes a sister in Kansas. “Enclosed find post-office money-order for $1 for the twenty-five February numbers. They sell on sight. I think I will secure a few yearly subscriptions. Twenty-five copies of the April issue are about all that I can handle, with my two little children to take with me.” Would that thousands of others, with less burdens, took such an interest in the work of spreading the principles of true health reform!
THE first edition of fifty-five thousand copies all gone. A second edition of forty-five thousand now on the press. Enough paper ordered for a third edition of seventy-five thousand copies. The second edition disappearing very rapidly. Large orders coming in daily. Such is the up-to-date history of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor. Those who ordered once are ordering a second time. You will have to “step lively” if you wish to secure a supply from the second edition. Send $3.75 for one hundred copies, or $1 for twenty-five copies.
MOODY said that there were two books every Christian should have,—a good Bible and a concordance. We can supply the former, in a large variety of styles, ranging in price from 50 cents to $17. For the latter, we suggest Cruden’s Concordance; price, post-paid, $1.
HOW do you like the name of our new quarterly,—the Protestant Magazine? In a letter just received from Prof. Percy T. Magan, he says: “I think you have chosen a great name for the new magazine. It can not be beat. I sincerely trust that it may prove a great blessing in the work.”
“I WORKED only three hours and thirty minutes, and sold one hundred six copies of the March Life and Health,” writes M. V. M., from a Southern State. “The president of the Georgia Northern Railway bought one, and through his influence I sold a copy to every one in the office.” Nearly every mail brings us just such good reports as this one, which arrived last week.
THERE is scarcely a class of people that can not be reached through our health literature. Note the following interesting news from one of our agents in Vermont: “I had good success. The twenty-five copies of March Life and Health are all sold out to-day. Find enclosed one dollar to pay for the same. I prayed for success, and the Lord answered my prayer. The inhabitants here are mostly Roman Catholics, but they buy the magazine just the same, and think it is all right. Could also sell some of the Temperance number of the Youth’s Instructor though the snow is deep here now, and it is pretty hard to get around.”
SOME very startling statements are found in Liberty magazine for the first quarter. Have you read them? Have you called the attention of your friends to the present situation in religious liberty matters? Note the following partial contents of this splendid number, copies of which we can still supply:—
Illustrations: Frontispiece cartoon, “Temptation of the Church.” Also twenty-five other illustrations.
Editorials: Our Position Defined — The Federal Council of Churches — Religion by Edict in England — The Truth About Magna Charta, a reply to Hon. Bourke Cockran — American Church and American Sabbath — Opening of Parliament in Turkey — Possibility of a Roman Catholic President.
Contributed Articles: The Lutheran Reply to President Roosevelt’s Letter — Labor Unions and Free Speech — First Catholic Missionary Congress — National Lord’s Day Alliance — The Famous Sunday Mail Reports of Congress — Sunday Law Movement in California.
Public Opinion: An Impending Peril — Religion in Politics — The True Protestant Position.
Religion and Science: The Unsettled Controversy — God in Nature — After the Higher Criticism, What?
Temperance: Alcohol a Chief Cause of Crime — Alcohol and Public Health. Send 50 cents for ten copies of this exceptionally good number, to sell or hand to your townspeople; or send 25 cents for five copies. They sell at 10 cents a copy. Address Liberty Magazine, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. Order to-day.