Our Publishing Work

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 1, 1906

Our Publishing Work

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

Any publication mentioned on this page may be ordered through your conference tract society or from any of our publishing houses or their branch offices. See last paragraph on this page for addresses of our publishing houses.

A CONCORDANCE of the Bible is a very necessary book for every Bible student. “Cruden’s Concordance” is an excellent one, and is furnished in cloth binding for $1 a copy.

IMPORTANT instruction in regard to sending our young people to Battle Creek to secure their education is contained in a little pamphlet entitled “Testimonies to the Church, Series B, No. 6.” It contains sixty-four pages, and the price is 5 cents. Every parent should have a copy. Order as usual.

ARE your little folks learning to make the pretty things Mrs. Long describes and illustrates in the Youth’s Instructor? These lessons will train their hands and eyes, and teach them to do their work accurately and neatly. If you do not have the Instructor’s weekly visits, order it now. Seventy-five cents a year, 40 cents for six months. Address Youth’s Instructor, Washington, D. C.

IN a conversation with a lady recently, reference was made to the near coming of Christ, and the speaker said he expected to live to see him coming. The lady exclaimed, “O! I should be scared to death if I believed that.” Reader, what are you doing to carry God’s message of love to those who know it not, so that they may not flee from him at his coming, but knowing and loving him here, may say then, “Lo, this is our God”?

MANY of your neighbors who attend Sunday-school are studying lessons on the life of Christ. Have you tried to interest them in “Desire of Ages”? It is the best book published as a “help” on these lessons. A little booklet has been prepared which refers to the passages in “The Desire of Ages” treating on the lesson topics. This booklet is furnished free with each copy of “The Desire of Ages” when so requested. Single copy will be sent to any one for 5 cents.

HAVE you a good supply of “Signs Leaflets” on hand? They should be scattered now as never before. Sixteen different two-page leaflets on the various points of faith are in this series, as follows: The Sure Word of Prophecy, Prophetic History of the World, Second Coming of Christ, Signs of Our Times, The Sanctuary, The 2300 Days, The Law of God, The Sabbath of the Bible, The First Day in the Bible, Who Changed the Sabbath? The Great Threefold Message, The Seal of God and Mark of the Beast, Church and State, Life and Immortality, The Great Judgment Day, The Home of the Saved. You can get a pound (18 of each leaflet) for 50 cents, or 100 of any single leaflet for 15 cents. No less than 100 of any single tract will be sold.

“MINISTRY OF HEALING,” Sister White’s latest book, is most helpful and encouraging. The example of Christ in relieving suffering and pointing the way to a better life is made so practical and helpful that the reader is led to understand more fully the divine love for fallen humanity, and to trust in the mighty Healer for physical and spiritual relief. Price, post-paid, $1.65.

IN a paper read at the bookmen’s convention recently held in Kansas City, Mo., a successful canvasser said, “We take orders or excuses.” This states a truth very plainly. Most people can afford to buy books if they really desire them, but many canvassers are willing to take “excuses” instead of “orders.” This they need not do if they will thoroughly master their book, and thus be able truthfully and attractively to present its real merits to their customer. This work is worthy of our highest endeavor, and no one should be satisfied to take a large proportion of “excuses” instead of “orders.”

FOUR canvassers in the Pacific Union Conference took orders for our large subscription books to the value of $5,223.75 during 1905. The total number of hours devoted to this work was 1,943, and the number of orders taken was 1,656. The brother who put in the greatest number of hours worked a total of 755 hours, from March to October inclusive. None of them used any so-called “helps,” but depended entirely on one book for their orders. This shows that those who are competent to handle our larger and more important publications can succeed with them alone, and do not need any crutches, or “helps,” in order to get along.

OF Life and Health it was recently said by one who had been greatly benefited through its teaching: “Any one who wants to live and be happy should not be without Life and Health. The January number was like life to me.” Our readers will find much practical matter in the February number. Over 300 names have been added to the list of agents since last October, and the great majority of these have met with excellent success in their work with the journal. The average sales for adult agents have been twenty copies an hour; children, ten copies an hour. As agents make two cents and a half profit on each copy sold, the average sales reported represent a good wage for the workers. Who else would like to try this line of work? Write to the publishers for suggestions on methods of work, suggestive canvass for current issues, prices, etc.

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