Traveling Libraries

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1903

Traveling Libraries

THE Battle Creek Tract Society has inaugurated systematic traveling libraries, and this plan bids fair to be one that will accomplish much good in the dissemination of the truth for this time.

A collection of our principal books, together with tracts, pamphlets, and periodicals, sufficient to cover the cardinal principles of the message, is sent to a locality where suitable arrangements can be made for their careful, systematic distribution. These are to be loaned to the people until the community has been thoroughly worked. Then they are shipped to another place, where they are put into circulation again, and so continued from place to place.

As books are lost or worn out, new copies are supplied, or the old ones repaired. Those directing these free traveling libraries often make sales of books, and take subscriptions for our papers. All money thus received is used in the purchase of new publications for other libraries of the same nature. All interested readers are placed in touch with the general secretary by personal correspondence, and their cases followed up by different members of the society. By a little effort many of our church tract societies could establish at least one of these libraries, and accomplish much good in many localities.