An Experience by S. C. COLTRIN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1900

An Experience.

By S. C. COLTRIN

WHILE laboring in Astoria, I used seventy-five copies of the Signs of the Times every week for about four months; and during that time three persons took their stand for the truth. My next experience was with the Quarter-Centennial Number; and in disposing of one hundred copies of that issue of the Signs of the Times, I secured fifty-five regular subscriptions, none of them for less than six months. I used my special issue of the Signs as a lever to secure subscriptions, and it proved a good one. When the World's Harvest Number was issued,—and it seems to me the very best of all,—I used three hundred and fifty-five copies, and also took advantage of this opportunity to again secure regular subscriptions.

I do not think we should be satisfied in simply selling these special numbers, but we should use them to aid us in securing subscriptions for this grand pioneer paper, which contains the glorious gospel of the Third Angel's Message. Now, brother workfellow, do we have the gospel? If so, let us show our love for this glorious truth by giving it to others. We can do this by placing the Signs of the Times in their hands for six months or a year, and it will preach the full and complete gospel to them every week. We can place this silent preacher in thousands of homes that the living preacher may never reach. Let us each do all we can; for the little that each one does will make much in the grand total. S. C. COLTRIN.