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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 21, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 34.

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Successful Tract Selling

By N. Z. T.

THE Pacific Press Publishing Association has been making special efforts to dispose of tracts in packages. They first prepared a five-dollar package, which they sold very successfully at camp-meetings. Next they prepared a dollar package, which met with equal success. For the camp-meeting season this year, they added to these three twenty-five-cent packages, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The following item taken from a letter written by Brother H. H. Hall, July 31, shows how readily these tracts are taken by our people:
"Since the first of the year, we have sold 1,623 of the twenty-five-cent packages No. 1, 1,450 of package No. 2, 1,426 of package No. 3, 1,115 dollar packages, and 318 five-dollar packages."
This makes a total number of tracts sold as follows:—
TRACTS PAGES
In the twenty-five-cent packages 113,632 1,179,600
In dollar packages 109,270 1,784,000
In five-dollar packages 246,450 3,307,200
Total 469,352 6,270,800
Concerning this tract work Brother Hall says: "You will be interested to know that tract sales are becoming very, very heavy with us. The packages which we now manufacture, a circular of which I enclose, seem to be generally appreciated by the people. Yesterday at a missionary meeting at the San Jose camp-ground, 47 of the five-dollar packages were taken in a few minutes. Our Kansas City House has been ordering tracts for its camp-meetings to an extent that has greatly surprised us. In addition to a stock which we supposed was sufficient, they wired yesterday for 100 of the dollar packages, 30 of the five-dollar packages, and 100 each of the twenty-five-cent packages."
These are indeed cheering figures, and are an indication of what our people may do in circulating tracts when they become thoroughly interested in this work. Now that special efforts are being made by the General Conference missionary secretary to reorganize the home missionary work in our churches, we believe that we shall hear of a still greater increase in the sale of our message-filled tracts, not only from the Pacific Press, but from all the other publishing houses among us. N. Z. T.