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A WONDERFUL MOVEMENT

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 48.

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A WONDERFUL MOVEMENT.

By P. T. Magan

And now at last it looks as if the day of small things in the RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS were past, and the grand march toward freedom fairly begun.
During the last few days, almost every laborer in the States of Iowa and Nebraska has gone forth to rouse the churches to scatter “Christ’s Object Lessons” and pay the debts. “I think they are all with you in this move,” said an honest, simple-hearted boy in Iowa the other day, “for every Adventist in this part of the country is praying for God to bless this work; and they are praying as they have never prayed before.”
Iowa has gone forth to sell twenty-five thousand copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” An order for ten thousand has already been placed with the REVIEW AND HERALD. We pause a moment to breathe a prayer that this “going forth” may be ended by the Finisher of our faith as happily as that of Abram and Sarai, of whom it is written: “And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.”
The word comes from Michigan that almost every laborer in the State is engaging in the work of scattering “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Those having charge of the enterprise expect to sell forty-two thousand copies at the full retail price of $1.25 a copy, and return all the money to the debt fund.
God willing, the good old publishing house, the REVIEW AND HERALD, will issue fifty thousand copies of the “Object Lessons” before the sun rises on Christmas day. Those in the Office are praising God that the people are selling so much of the truth, that the Office presses, folders, and binding machines must run day and night, rolling out the glorious message, without being compelled to take work from the world.
Amen. So let the work go on; and may our God-fearing brethren and sisters all over the land let their prayers go up like sweet incense to God, that his Spirit may breathe upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with money, that they may give liberally to purchase material for this precious book. And thus the work will not be hindered, and no one will lose the blessing by withholding that which is meet.
P. T. MAGAN.