IT IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED
By S. H. Lane
Much has been said about the sale of the book, “Christ’s Object Lessons,” to liquidate the debts of the schools throughout the country, and we are glad to report that this is actually being done. Forty thousand of these books have been printed by the Review and Herald Office, and nearly all of them have been shipped out to the different States. The Pacific Press Pub. Co. has shipped ten thousand. Our brethren and sisters are taking hold wherever these books have been sent, and are selling them. Some have sold as high as two hundred copies. The Battle Creek church has voted to take twelve thousand, and many are the feet that are now conveying them to friends, neighbors, and strangers, and money is being brought in from their sale every week-day.
The Review Office employees have **recently started a colporteur wagon, which is selling not only12“Christ’s Object Lessons,” but “Best Stories” and “Easy Steps,”** to supply the holiday trade. Many copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons” are sold for Christmas presents. Some are selling them in near-by towns, and they are constantly being sold to those who come to solicit the patronage of the Review Office or the Sanitarium. Several hundred books have been thus disposed of. Others are selling to merchants and tradesmen. We have shipped several thousand to the State of Iowa, which so far seems to be the banner State to which shipments have been made. They are endeavoring to dispose of twenty-five thousand copies in that State. Many are writing letters to their friends, asking them to purchase. Business firms have been written to, and some have replied by ordering from ten to thirty copies for Christmas presents for their employees. The colleges are receiving money from these sales. The Battle Creek College paid one thousand dollars a few days ago on its debt. The business manager of Union College has just reported that he has twenty-seven hundred dollars to send out immediately on the debt of that institution. Since the sale began, nearly four thousand dollars has been paid on the debts, and yet the work is only well begun. If you have not already engaged in this work, will you not take right hold with us, and push it to a finish? The Lord will bless; and when the books are sold by the thousands, and our schools are all out of debt, then the note of jubilee will sound throughout all the borders of our land. “Glide swiftly round, ye wheels of time, and bring the welcome day.” S. H. LANE.