p. 22 | Notes From the "Signs" Office by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 14, 1914

Notes From the "Signs" Office

By Editor

THE list continues to grow, and is now 20,060. It has been a steady climb for the past six months. It indicates somewhat the real missionary spirit that is coming in among our people; for as they plan their work, they naturally look to our good pioneer missionary paper for something to use. The Signs is our missionary, our servant for reaching our friends with the truth. How ably it is demonstrating its ability to help us! It is worthy of more of our confidence.

Back numbers of the Signs weekly are no more obtainable. The rapidly increasing list exhausts every edition, with the exception of a few copies. This is as it should be. In planning your missionary work with the Signs, count on using the very latest and most up-to-date copies.

If we only had the room to tell you of the many splendid articles already in the hands of the editors, and the many, many others coming,—a steady stream of the very best there is, going out each week in our pioneer missionary paper! A real treasure! The leaders in this great movement are the ones who are making the Signs. Notice their articles. What could be better to send to your friends?

Now comes the call again to sell the Signs weekly at five cents a copy. Thousands of copies were sold in this way before our magazines were started. Since then the magazines have had the field, and have become well established, and now our people are inquiring for a five-cent journal. A good plan is to establish a regular route, collecting a month's subscription at twenty cents, or a three months' subscription at fifty cents, and deliver the paper each week, always endeavoring, of course, to secure renewals for a longer period. The paper costs you two and one-half cents a copy. This is a splendid opportunity for the boys and girls, and also older people.

The Portland (Oregon) church holds the record. They are setting a lively pace for missionary work; and it is no spasmodic effort, but is setting in for a good, long, hard, steady pull for the finishing of the work in that large city. At the present time they are using over six hundred copies of the Signs, and the best part of it is that over half of them are going to individuals in clubs of five. This means that about sixty members of this church are using five copies of the Signs in personal work. This is the kind of effort that counts, and while they have seen some splendid results there, we are confident that this means bigger things for them.

The new series begins in two weeks. This is the time to study your list of acquaintances and have five or ten of them placed on the list for six months or a year. What do you think of it?

Five or more copies to your own address for six months, 60 cents each. Five or more to separate addresses, 65 cents each. Order through your tract society.