A Grand Rally

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1907

The plan for a grand rally, to increase the circulation of the Signs of the Times is no longer an uncertain or untried plan. It has already begun to work, and in this initial working gives evidence of a vigor which we trust will abide with it till the end sought has been accomplished. On Sabbath, March 16, the matter was taken up in the San Francisco and San Jose churches with encouraging results. It was a very disagreeable day in both places, and only a small portion of the membership at either place was in attendance. The sixty present at the San Francisco service subscribed for 809 sets of the Signs special series. This was an average of more than thirteen sets a member. At the San Jose church, only about fifty of the one hundred members being present, over three hundred sets of the twenty-six special issues were taken. But this is only the beginning, and it is expected that many more sets will be taken by both these churches. Fifty-eight workers at the Pacific Press have taken seven hundred and fifty sets, an average of a little less than thirteen each.

Now these sets of special Signs are taken for business, the greatest business in the world just now, the business of giving to the people of this generation God’s last warning message. As a people we are united upon the importance of that business. As a people we must rise, then, and do the work for this time. As a people let us ask ourselves this question face to face, “Have I so faithfully warned my neighbors and friends and relatives that I shall feel safe to meet the record of my work in the day of judgment?” If not, here is the most effective opportunity of doing that work that has ever come to us. You can send a preacher twenty-six consecutive weeks into the home of that neighbor or friend or relative at a cost that is insignificant when compared with the services rendered. Let us take hold of the work with both hands — not leaning on it, but lifting. God will bless the effort and the lifters. He has already done so. The campaign has already begun to show what it can accomplish by the unifying and vivifying results that have followed its introduction.