Our Publishing Work by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 8, 1906

Our Publishing Work

By Editor

The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. Psalm 68:11.

See last paragraph on this page for instructions where to order.

Keep a supply of Signs, Religious Liberty, and Words of Truth leaflets on hand to pass out to neighbors, friends, or chance inquirers. Full lists of the various leaflets in each of these series, together with prices, will be found in our catalogue. Send for a copy, if you haven't one.

A vigorous campaign on “Christ’s Object Lessons” is soon to be entered upon by some of the conferences in the Atlantic Union. It is hoped that in every conference this special work for our educational institutions may be completed this year. A good work has already been done, but a strong, hearty pull is necessary to finish the various conference quotas.

The report of our Battle Creek Office for the year 1905 shows that the retail value of books sold in the Lake Union Conference was $30,911.84. Of this amount, $23,052.24 was subscription books, $1,975.75 trade books, $3,883.08 tracts, and the remainder was for relief books and miscellaneous sales. The retail value of all the publications shipped out from Battle Creek during the year was $103,830.81.

The new magazine, Liberty, will be appreciated by all readers of the Review. In some respects, it will assume the mission of the American Sentinel, modified to meet the demands of the present time, in the promulgation of the principles of religious liberty, and defense of the rights of conscience. It will be within the reach of all, as is revealed by the following very low rates: Single copy, per annum, including extras, 25 cents; single copy of regular issues, 5 cents; single copy of any extra, according to size; 5 or more copies per annum, different addresses, one order, 15 cents a copy; 10 or more copies a year, one address, one order, 15 cents a copy; 25 or more copies of one issue, one order, one address, 2½ cents a copy.

The following recipe for good manners we copy from “Talks with My Students,” by Frederick Griggs: “Oil of Common Sense, three drams; Essence of Good-will, two drams; Extract of the Rose of Sharon, four ounces; Tact, two drams; Heart’s Ease, three drams, and no scruples. All these put together, well mixed, and often used, will cure any case of ill manners.” For a number of years it has been the custom in the South Lancaster Academy for Prof. Frederick Griggs to use a portion of time at the morning chapel exercises in talking to the students upon some practical subject. In these talks the professor has endeavored to place before the young people principles essential to success in life. These talks have been reported and printed in a little volume entitled “Talks with My Students.” Every young person will find them very practical and beneficial. The book will be sent, post-paid, in cloth covers, for 40 cents; pamphlet, 25 cents.

The “Year-Book” for 1906, with official directories, and a brief historical summary for 1905, is now ready. Price, 25 cents.

Of our larger books, “Great Controversy” and “Desire of Ages” will undoubtedly be the ones which will be sold most extensively this season. Their importance certainly merits the attention of our best canvassing evangelists, and “Great Controversy” has, perhaps, exerted a greater influence in bringing people into the truth than any other one book.

A neat pamphlet of 152 pages is the “Proceedings of the Medical Missionary Convention,” just off the press. It contains a full report of the convention, together with some of the papers and Testimonies read. A nominal charge of 10 cents a copy is made for this pamphlet, and orders should be addressed to General Conference, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

A German brother who has been selling books among the Germans in Pennsylvania has found large numbers of Poles, Hungarians, and Rumanians, and feeling a great burden for these people, is making special preparation to work among them. He expects to introduce “Steps to Christ” in these various languages, and hopes to use more than a thousand copies.

Our factory in Battle Creek has been busily filling orders for “Christ in Song,” and before this paper reaches its readers, all orders ought to have been filled. All our publishing houses and branches will again have a supply of this most excellent book. Its large sale in the past, and the continuous demand for it when for a time it was out of stock, testify to its popularity. It is undoubtedly the largest and best collection of good songs now on the market, and the prices are very low: Flexible cloth, 35 cents; board, 40 cents; cloth, 50 cents; half morocco, $1.

The secretary of the California Conference has been collecting statistics concerning the means which were chiefly instrumental in bringing individuals into the truth. Out of 1,080 replies received, it seems that 320, or nearly one third of this number, were largely influenced by some publication, while about two thirds of the number were directly or indirectly influenced by some publication. We doubt not that this average will hold good in many other conferences. If one out of every three persons who accepts the truth is directly influenced to do so by reading, what a mighty army of believers might be added if we had one hundred engaged in the circulation of our literature where now there is one.

Orders for any publication mentioned on this page may be sent to any conference tract society or to Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, D. C., or Battle Creek, Mich. Also Pacific Press Publishing Company, Mountain View, Cal.; Portland, Ore.; Kansas City, Mo.; Southern Publishing Association, Nashville, Tenn., and Fort Worth, Tex.