Publishing Department by W. W. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 11, 1914

Publishing Department

By W. W. E.

N. Z. Town - - - General Secretary

W. W. Eastman - - - N. Am. Div. Secretary

Our Summary

WE hope the readers of the REVIEW are carefully studying from month to month our colporteurs' summary. These figures become very interesting with a little study. It will be noted that our gain for April over April of last year for the whole field is $12,164.90, while the North American Division has made a gain of $14,559.11. There has also been a gain in North America of a thousand dollars in the sale of our magazines.

For the first four months of 1914 we have made a gain of $21,257.76, while the gain for last year, the same period of time, was only $13,397.41, and the gain in 1912 over 1911 only $8,856.37. Thus we have made the largest gain for the first four months of 1914 of any period of the same length of time since 1911, when our gain for the same period was $31,706.58.

It is encouraging to note that every union in the North American Division shows a reasonable gain in April over the same month of last year, with the exception of the Atlantic, Southwestern, Pacific, and Western Canadian, and we have every reason to believe that these unions will soon make a different showing in their reports.

While there has been a slight falling off in the foreign field as a whole, yet some fields show excellent gains, as, for instance, the British and Scandinavian Union Conferences.

It is interesting to note the gains being made by some of the local conferences, as Northern New England, Ohio, Chesapeake, Southern Illinois, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Texas, South Missouri, Minnesota, Northern California, and Upper Columbia.

It is evident from the rapid developments being made in the world that our work will soon be restricted as far as is possible for man to restrict it. Times now are very prosperous compared to what they will be in a few years. Let us throw into our effort all the consecration, tact, and earnestness possible for man to draw from divine sources. Let us work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work.

W. W. E.