Review and Herald Daily Mail by D. W. Reavis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1914

Review and Herald Daily Mail

By D. W. Reavis

THIS picture shows the Review and Herald truck with the third load of mail, October 6, and the mail car which has been placed on the sidetrack daily at Takoma Park during the past month.

Each day during this time this car has been well filled with REVIEW Extras, Ingathering REVIEWS, and the regular house mail, and it will be required for some time to come; for the daily mail is yet so large that a train cannot make a stop on its regular schedule long enough to load our mail from the regular mail shed, though it stands close to the track, and on a level with the car door.

Our publishing houses have made marked advances in printing and circulating literature during recent years. At first our periodicals could be carried to the post office in a carpetbag. Later only a few mail bags were required, and still later light carts could handle it. Only a short time ago we reported outgoing books by the tons, later by the carload at long intervals. But now, even our periodicals are sent out daily for more than a month at a time by the carload — a car a day of periodicals from Washington has been the average since August 15. Greater things are yet in store for our literature. There will be more and more of it as time passes; for every believer will some day be an active worker in the circulation of the printed gospel. D. W. Reavis.