Will It Sell? by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

Will It Sell?

By Editor

WILL what sell? “Great Controversy.” Of course it will sell, and with as little urging as any religious publication that we ever saw. We have never had a doubt of it, and the following facts ought to remove the last doubt from every mind. An aged brother in Illinois, a farmer, felt a desire to help circulate the book. He had never canvassed, so he procured a prospectus and started out without letting his family know anything of it. In two hours he came back perfectly willing to let his family know what he had been doing, for he had five orders. In seven and one-half days he took one hundred orders, and in one day he took twenty. The most prominent men in the community subscribed for the book. It is safe to say that he earned more than he possibly could in the same time at anything else; and the amount of good done is incalculable. The book is just what the people need, and they are ready to receive it. Who will have a share in the good work?