THE SALE OF “CHRIST’S OBJECT LESSONS.”
By S. H. Lane
WE are glad to report that the good work of selling “Christ’s Object Lessons” is progressing quite rapidly in some parts of the field, but there is not that general taking hold of the work that we desire to see; however, we are thankful that something is all the time being done. Some States have done, and are doing, nobly, and our colleges and schools are beginning to pay some on their debts. Fully twenty-five thousand dollars has already been paid on the denominational school debt; this certainly is well for the few months that the book has been on the market, but the work should not be left to wane. All appreciate the fact that the summer is not so good a time to sell books as the fall and early winter, yet books can be sold during the summer. Some Conferences are making quite a vigorous campaign this summer, and as a result many books are being forwarded to the field. The sale of this book will bring inestimable good to two classes: First, the class that sells the book. It gives them an opportunity to do missionary work, also an experience which they cannot obtain better through any other source. Second, the book will do the class that purchase an amount of good which eternity alone can develop; for it will bring to them a knowledge of the truth, for the lack of which many are perishing. So both those who sell and those who buy will be benefited; and only time can reveal which class will derive the greatest good. There is ample ground for deep gratitude to God for the manner in which our brethren and sisters everywhere have responded to the call for money to buy the material with which to make the books. The committee having charge of the book thought fit to raise fifty thousand dollars to pay for the material used in its manufacture. Fully one-half of this amount has been paid, and several thousand dollars has been pledged. The book is being brought out in the German, Danish-Norwegian, and Swedish, and in a few months can be placed upon the market. We trust this will result in bringing in many thousands of dollars to aid the work in these languages. Reader, have you donated to the Material fund? If not, will you not send in a liberal offering to aid in the work? Now is the time to work. All our institutions, as well as the State Conferences and the tract societies, should be working out of debt. Times are prosperous; there is an abundance of money in the land; and now while kind Providence thus favors our country, and peace is quite universal in all lands, we trust every servant of God who fully loves the truth for this time will do everything he can to place our books and literature before the people, and thus spread abroad the truth.