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Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 6.

THE WORK
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Maryland

By Gustavus P. Rodgers

BALTIMORE.—The first convention of the colored churches of the Chesapeake Conference was held in the new church at Baltimore, Wednesday night, January 14. The meeting was opened with an address by the president of the conference, Elder R. T. Baer. Services were held all day during the convention, beginning at 7:30 each morning. Elder T. H. Branch, of Philadelphia; Elder F. H. Senney, of our own conference; Elder J. M. Campbell, of Washington; and the writer constituted the help for the daily services. All the convention sessions were presided over by Elder Baer, and the resolutions passed will appear in the Union Visitor and the Gospel Herald. There are four churches in this conference, and three of them had delegates present. The good reports of the work in their localities brought from all words of praise to the Lord for his blessings.
The colored churches in this conference are not large, but their liberality to the cause of God shows that they have the work at heart. With a total membership of about one hundred, these believers have given in the past twelve months about seventeen hundred dollars. The money raised for home work added to this makes a total of about twenty-five hundred dollars. Although the church at Dover, Del., was not represented by any delegate, yet the members there are working faithfully to do their best to send the gospel to all the world in this generation. The needs of the colored people are great and urgent. In this large field of 275,000 of these people, with only two workers to labor for them, it is quite a problem to know how to reach them all.
During the convention Dr. H. N.Sisco and Dr. Bourdeau-Sisco, with a trained nurse, gave a splendid medical lecture and demonstration, which all greatly enjoyed. Excellent services were conducted by Elder Campbell on Friday night. Elder Branch preached the sermon Sabbath morning. At the last service Sunday night the church was filled, and the Spirit of the Lord came very near as Elder Seeney gave a stirring talk on the seven last plagues.
A Sabbath school convention was held Sabbath morning, and a young people's convention in the afternoon. The members of the first church visited these meetings, and greatly enjoyed them. Good papers were read and discussed, and with solos, duets, quartets, and speeches, a profitable afternoon was spent. As the result of all the meetings, we expect to see souls brought to Christ. At the close of the convention, those attending said it was the best meeting they had ever attended, and all were sorry when it was over.
We believe that we shall have an encouraging report to give to the readers of this paper at the close of this year's work among the colored people in this conference; for all present pledged themselves to a deeper consecration in the service of God. We expect great things from the Lord.
Gustavus P. Rodgers.

Let Us Do Our Part

By Mrs. C. C. Circle

TRULY the fields are white' for harvest, and the laborers are few; but how thankful we are for the few willing hearts that are sacrificing home comforts to answer the call in the far-off fields!
While some are returning to the field to resume their labor, others are making their first trip abroad. Let us pray for them all, but especially for those who are going for the first time to undertake the special work to which the Master has called them.
There is something else our workers need, and that is money. We must pray for means. Let us give generously of what the Lord has intrusted to our care: and if we do not have money laid up in earthly banks, let us go to our heavenly Banker, who owns all the gold and silver and whose workmanship we are, for God says in his Word, "Ask, and ye shall receive." He certainly will answer our prayer by giving us what is needed.
Let us not disappoint the faithful workers who stand ready to go, but who must wait for means to come into the treasury before they can reach their respective fields. Let us not stop with providing their transportation, but let us give to supply their needs in the field. I am sure we all want a part in this work. Let us claim the blessing which God wants us to have. Let us make ourselves acquainted with these missionaries, and correspond with them. It will cheer their hearts and lighten their burdens. May God bless this work, is my prayer. MRS. C. C. CIRCLE.

What One Church Did

By G. R. Hawkins; E. Flo Hawkins

SOME twenty years ago we enlisted in the work of the Lord, and during this time our splendid church paper, the REVIEW AND HERALD, has never missed its weekly visit to our home, bringing to us comfort and cheer. We read it from cover to cover, and should surely miss the encouraging reports from our workers throughout the world-wide field.
A little over two years ago we left the Iowa Conference, where we had labored for eighteen years, and crossed the Missouri River, settling in Omaha, Nebr. We have enjoyed our labors here, and through the blessing of the Lord about seventy persons have united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in this place, and a number are now waiting for baptism.
In addition to our church and field work, we have conducted, on a small scale, a Bible training school for city Bible workers. There have been associated with us some noble young men and women, and much of our success is due to their untiring efforts. The members of the Omaha church also have helped us materially.
Our Missionary Volunteer Society is doing splendid work. We have excellent meetings, and meet each week to send out fifty copies of the Signs of the Times to relatives and friends not of our faith. We are giving these young people the same Bible training that we give our field workers, and they gladly enter with us into a vigorous soul-saving campaign.
We wish especially, however, to report our Harvest Ingathering work for the encouragement of the REVIEW family. During the 1911 campaign we set our stakes for not less than one hundred dollars. We passed this goal so quickly that we decided to make it two hundred dollars; and when we finished our work, the total amount raised was two hundred and fifty dollars. When we entered the 1912 campaign, we set our goal for three hundred dollars, but we raised over three hundred and fifty. Then we asked, "What shall we do for the 1913 campaign?" From many earnest hearts came the answer, "Five hundred dollars our goal for next year." But in making this reply, our people did not count on the terrible tornado that swept over Omaha on March 23, 1913. The residents of the city were solicited for aid in behalf of the sufferers, for rebuilding churches and charitable institutions, and for every conceivable purpose, until we felt that it would be almost a crime to mention foreign missions in Omaha. A faithful sister in our church, the best solicitor we had, was injured in the wreckage of a home where she was visiting at the time of the storm.
However, in face of all seeming hindrances, our members met, and by faith ordered twenty-five hundred copies of the Harvest Ingathering REVIEW. We said nothing about a goal; we just worked and prayed. When the time came for our Harvest Ingathering program, the church was crowded. The Lord worked upon hearts, and at the close of the exercises by the children we had a testimony meeting, for which no human being had planned. As our people rose to speak, each one ended his testimony by laying before the Lord a thank offering; for though most of our people live in the part of the city through which the tornado passed, not an Adventist home was wrecked, not a life lost nor a business broken up among our people. The neat little house where we meet to worship God stands as a monument to the watch care of our Heavenly Father. When the service closed, late in the afternoon, we had passed our five-hundred-dollar mark. Three hundred dollars was collected with the Missions number of the REVIEW, and the remainder came as our Harvest Ingathering thank offering. Truly God answers prayer, and seeming difficulties are only stepping-stones to success. G. R. Hawkins, E. Flo Hawkins.

How the Truth Came to Me

By Caroline Randolph

WHEN the work started in England, Elder S. N. Haskell invited the brethren in America to subscribe enough money to send over there fifty copies of our dear old Signs, for free distribution. My mother accepted the message these papers brought, and later my sister and I joined her in the observance of the Sabbath. Others of our family have taken their stand for the truth, and the children and grandchildren are giving their lives to the proclamation of the message.
I hope this may meet the eye of some one who donated to that fund for the distribution of literature. Soon the working and waiting will be over, and we shall clasp hands in the kingdom of God. CAROLINE RANDOLPH.

Secretaryship as a Life Work—

By C. L. B.

No. 3

Intellectual Conditions of Religious Leadership

We come next to consider the intellectual conditions of leadership. The secretary must be a student. Less than this he cannot be.
First, he needs to be a student in order to command the respect of those whom he seeks to lead or influence. I have heard contrasts drawn between two secretaries, the one of meager, and the other of full, mental equipment, in which it was stated that the man of meager equipment reached the hearts of young people more effectively because he did not know too much, and was therefore more like themselves. Other things being equal, it would seem as if the impression made upon young people by a secretary whose mind is well stored and well directed would be deeper and more permanent than that of a secretary who had not risen above their average intellectual level.
A second reason why the secretary, if he is to be a leader in religious work, needs to be a student is that his mind may be kept flexible, discriminating, and appropriating,—flexible, to appreciate the religious viewpoint of others; discriminating, to detect their errors; and appropriating, to adopt and assimilate that which is good and pass it along to others. We read with pity of the poor fanatic of India who thrusts his hand above his head and makes a vow that he will never take it down again. His arm becomes rigid; in time he cannot use it. But what is that to the intellectual rigidity of the human mind when an individual voluntarily shuts himself off from imbibing God's truth, from enlarging his mental capacity by reading, observation, and counsel, and his mind becomes a machine?
Mr. Darwin records his own experience bearing on this point: "Up to the age of thirty, poetry gave me great pleasure, pictures and music gave me great delight. But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry; I have also almost lost my taste for pictures and music." What Mr. Darwin did with a part of his brain you and I can do with ours, thus shutting ourselves out from a sympathetic touch with our intelligent fellow associates, and from the power to help mold those less intelligent.
A third reason why the secretary should be a student is that by reading he may keep in touch with the best methods to enter the open door of opportunity into the religious lives of young people. There are hundreds of men, students of human nature, who are studying the best and most successful methods of reaching men. Through the printed page we can learn from these men. To illustrate, take the work for children and young people. Too often we have moved along in our self-appointed way, attempting to cut down the coat of the father to fit the son, supposing that the methods that had been successful with men of forty would be as successful with a boy of fifteen. Meanwhile in educational circles new and better methods were being brought to light for training the boy. The price of such knowledge is hard work.
Recently I read of a physician who had attained a leading position in medical circles of New York. That busy man, carrying forward his work under the pressure of the metropolitan life, in addition to studying his cases and reading medical journals and magazines, gives four hours a day to a close study of the most recent books on medical science and to original work in his own laboratory. This means for him exclusion from social enjoyment, but it means leadership among physicians who are interested in man's physical life. Should this not arouse us to renewed activity in a careful study of practical methods to find avenues into the religious life of our young people?
A fourth reason for the student habit is the relation of mental culture to executive ability. Professor James, in "Talks to Teachers," defines "an uneducated person as one who is non-plussed by all but the most habitual situations." On the contrary, he says, "One who is educated is able practically to extricate himself by means of the examples with which his memory is stored, and of the abstract conceptions which he has acquired, from circumstances in which he never was placed before. Education, in short, cannot be better described than by calling it the organization of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies to behavior."
If Professor James's definition is true, a study of books causes a man's horizon to recede as he views the problems of life, and frequently furnishes examples of the best methods to solve problems.
A fifth reason for the secretary's acquiring studious habits is this: Other things being equal, intelligent men appreciate the Scriptures more keenly. I do not forget the great spiritual insight of many so-called ignorant persons, but that does not mean that we must be ignorant to understand the Scriptures, or that because of our ignorance we shall have greater spiritual insight. You remember the two men who quarreled over the interpretation of a scripture; one finally said, "The Lord has no use for your learning," while the other replied, "I know it, but he has less use for your ignorance."
The secretary must be a student if he would sound the depths of truth, otherwise it may be said of him, as Henry Moore said to Southey when asked why he could not write the life of John Wesley: "Sir, the well is deep, and there is nothing to draw with." The secretary who is not a man of student habits is committing intellectual suicide. Ole Bull is reported once to have said, "If I quit practicing on my violin for a day, I notice the difference; if I quit for two days, my friends notice the difference; if I quit for a week, everybody notices the difference." May it not be said of the secretary who fails to maintain his mental development, that soon he will recognize it, a little later his closest associates will recognize it, and finally it will be recognized by those to whom he stands as a religious leader?
A sixth reason why the secretary should be a student is that in order to render the best possible service the best preparation must be made. Any young person looking forward to the secretaryship as a life work should have as much preliminary general education as he can acquire. He should be the equal in culture and training of any young person he may meet. The Y. M. C. A. requires a full college course as preparation for association service.
The prospective secretary may do much in a specific way while in college to prepare himself for this life work. That he should participate actively in the work of the young people's society and the band work goes without saying. A faithful performance of committee service, the leadership of prayer bands, the daily study of the Bible as a life habit, the cultivation of a genuine interest in men, which seeks to enlist them in Christian life and service,—these things would at once suggest themselves as training elements of wider application than to student life alone. He should endeavor to become, while in college, what he must be after he leaves it, "All things to all men."
It is necessary for the secretary to study the habits, lives, and characteristics of young people and children. This means a study of physiology in order to know the body, of psychology and literature in order to know the mind, of sociology in order to understand the social nature, and religious pedagogy in order to sympathize intelligently with young people and to be able to help them solve the great problems which confront our youth.
The secretary must also devote time to personal culture. The reasons for this are numerous. Those for whom he works are keen to detect shallowness, and very free to expose it. Again, a new and growing work, like the workfor our young people, demands men who can create, men who see visions; and narrow, ignorant men do not possess these characteristics. To reach the head of his profession, the secretary must spend much time in hard study, not only along the lines of young people's problems, but along a general line that will enable him to converse freely and intelligently with the ordinary church member or high school student.
To the man with the enthusiasm of youth spurring him on to begin life's battles, and with a sense of the great opportunities offered in the Missionary Volunteer movement, this may appear a long road to travel before entering upon his life work. But if the man with no higher purpose than to serve his own ends will put years into his preparation, should not the man who wishes to be of service to God and his fellow men through the medium of the Missionary Volunteer movement, be willing to devote the necessary time and energy to securing an equipment, which, however complete, will be taxed to the utmost by the demands that will be made upon it?
The French proverb says, "Man is young as long as he grows," and we might add, The secretary is useful as long as he grows; and if, like our Saviour, he grows in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man, there need never come to him any questions as to his approaching the "dead line" or the age limit.
C. L. B.

Ministerial Reading Course

By J. L. S.

Reading Schedule for February

THE Reading Course for February includes the following sections in Part I of "Preparing to Preach:"—
  • VI. The Introduction.
  • VII. Sermon Body.
  • VIII. The Conclusion.
  • IX. Materials.
  • X. Ministerial Senility.
  • XI. Originality.
  • XII. Instruction.

The Value of Prayer

The value of prayer in the preparation of a sermon cannot be overestimated. The minister should be much in secret prayer. It is in communion with God that, as a messenger, he receives the message from God. We are living in an age of great intensity and activity, and one of the chief dangers of the Lord's servant today is the many forms of activity in the church, keeping the worker from the hours of prayer and meditation so necessary to a successful ministry. In "Pastoral and Personal Evangelism," by Dr. Goodell, we read:—
"Before one undertakes actual evangelistic work there must be thorough preparation. The first preparation is that wrought by prayer.
"It is of the utmost importance for Christian people to have clear ideas concerning prayer, that they may neither minimize its power nor charge God foolishly. The most of the men who have moved this world toward God were men of prayer. If we turn to the Word of God, there stands Abraham interceding for the worldly Lot, and Jacob wrestling with the angel till the break of day. There is Moses praying for his people, and Elijah opening and shutting the gates of heaven by the leverage of prayer. The psalms themselves are little more than communion and petition with accompanying ascriptions of praise for answered prayer. Here is the Master himself, the greatest of all examples, spending whole nights in wilderness and mountain, transformed by prayer, that he may be transfigured through faith. As Dr. Watson says, 'One remembers in modern times the multitude of believing men who have wrought marvels by prayer; how the more Martin Luther had to do, the more he prayed; how Cromwell on his deathbed interceded for God's cause and God's people in the finest prayer ever offered by a patriot; how it is written of the "Saints of the Covenant" in Scotland that they lived "praying and preaching" and that they died "praying and fighting." What possessed those men that they undertook no work till they had first met with God, that they turned unto him in every hour of defeat, that they carried to his feet the trophies of their victories?'
Of the purpose of prayer, the same author says:—
"The great purpose in prayer is that we may change eyes with God, that we may lay down our plans at his feet, and receive instead his perfect will. Jesus himself becomes our example in the garden of Gethsemane. Under the spell of prayer the cry, 'Let this cup pass,' changes to, 'Thy will be done.' . . .
"What is the agony of Gethsemane if a man can get out of it a victory like that? Many of us are not insistent in our prayers. We pray and run away. We do not wait to see if God is not handing down some great gift for us. Manton, the old Puritan preacher, quaintly says, 'Foolish boys that knock at a door in wantonness will not stay till somebody cometh to open to them; but a man that hath business will knock and knock again until his call is answered.' When we use our telephones, we are not content until we hear the voice of the one we seek. There are many who undertake to talk with God, but they hang up the receiver before the answer comes. Wait until there is an answer from the responsive heavens; wait until there is borne in upon your soul the fact of God's abiding love and care for you. Then you can arise from your knees and go forty days, if necessary, in the strength of that revelation of the heart of God.
"The value of prayer in evangelistic work would be hard to overestimate. Nothing is so productive of that indefinable power which is felt better than described, but which gives unspeakable unction to the proclamation of the truth. But we are persuaded that many utterly misapprehend the part which prayer is to play in the prosecution of revival work. They seem to think that one has only to retire to his study and spend his time in supplication before God, and that in answer to that supplication a strange spirit will pervade the community, hardened men will grow tender, and those who have never gone to the house of the Lord will be constrained to turn their faces thither. We would not for a moment deny that miracles of grace are wrought through prayer, but we are persuaded out of our experience that prayer will be unavailing unless we go out ourselves to answer, at least in part, our own petitions."

Sermon Plans

Henry Ward Beecher says of conventional plans in sermon building:—
"Much of the effectiveness of a discourse, as well as the ease and pleasure of delivering it, depends upon the plan. Let me earnestly caution you against the sterile, conventional, regulation plans that are laid down in the books, and are frequently taught in the seminaries. There is no one proper plan. You are not like a bullet mold, made to run bullets of the one unvarying shape. It is quietly assumed by the teachers of formal sermonizing that a sermon is to be unfolded from the interior, or from the nature of the truth with which it deals. That this is one element, and often the chief element, that determines the form of the sermon, is true; but it also is true that the object to be gained by preaching a sermon at all will have as much influence in giving it proper plan as will the nature of the truth handled, perhaps even more. Nay, if but one or the other could be adopted, that habit of working which shapes one's sermons from the necessities of the minds to which it is addressed is the more natural, the safer, and the more effective."

Great Sermons

Among the many helpful suggestions to Yale students, Mr. Beecher gave the following caution on the subject of "great" sermons:—
"The themes you will handle are often of transcendent greatness. There will be times continually recurring in which you will feel earnestly the need of great power; but the ambition of constructing great sermons is guilty and foolish in no ordinary degree. I do not set out to do that thing. Sermons that are truly great come of themselves. They spring from sources deeper than vanity or ambition.
"When the hand of the Lord is laid upon the heart, and its energies are aroused under a divine inspiration, there may then be given forth mighty thoughts in burning words, and from the formative power of this inward truth the outward form may be generated, perfect, as is the language of a poem. Perhaps I should have said show sermons, rather than great sermons,—sermons adapted to create surprise, admiration, and praise, sermons as full of curiosities as a peddler's pack, which the proud owners are accustomed to take in all their exchanges and travelings as their especial delight and reliance. Often they are baptized with fanciful names. There is the 'Dew Upon the Grass' sermon, and the 'Trumpet' sermon, and the sermon of the 'Fleece,' and the 'Dove and Eagle' sermon, and so on. Such discourses are relied upon to give men their reputation. To construct such sermons, men oftentimes labor night and day, and gather into them all the scraps, ingenuities, and glittering illustrations of a lifetime. They are the pride and the joy of the preacher's heart; but they bear the same relation to a truly great sermon as a kaleidoscope, full of glittering bits of glass, bears to a telescope, which unveils the glory of the stellar universe. Theseare the Nebuchadnezzar sermons, over which the vain preacher stands, saying, 'Is not this great Babylon, that I have builded for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?' Would to God that these preachers, like Nebuchadnezzar, might go to grass for a time, if, like him, they would return sane and humble!" J. L. S.

Mexico

Victory Among Both Federals and Rebels

While the warring factions in Mexico are still carrying on their civil strife and keeping the country in a turmoil, our colporteurs are quietly at work, going in and out among both federals and rebels, successfully scattering the books and periodicals containing the last warning message. Writing from the south of Mexico, Brother J. A. P. Green, the general agent, says:—
"The war seems to be the only subject of conversation among the natives, but we love to talk to them of better things. It will require something more than wars and revolutions to take away the desire of the colporteur to carry on his work. Some of our boys may have to go aboard Admiral Fletcher's flagship for four or five days while the cannons are pouring their volleys into the city of Tampico,but when it is over, back to the work they will go.
"Two of us are working here in the southern part of Mexico, where rumors of revolution were also thick, but just at present everything is quiet. In Puerto, Mexico, in 100 hours we took $597 worth of orders and delivered $413 worth of books. In the next town we sold 173 pesos' worth of books in three days.
"There is no such thing as defeat in this work. We have had enough here to discourage ten men, but thanks be to God for what he has wrought. I must tell you how the prominent men in the city have helped in this work. Even the governor assisted me, as he canvassed the governor-general and took his order for me. Following is a list of officials who have taken our book:—
"The military governor
"General secretary of the governor
"Private secretary of the governor
"Lieutenant governor
"General treasurer of the government
"Director general of public works
"Chief of police
"Secretary of police department
"Inspector of schools
"Two magistrates
"With this list we had easy sailing. The business men were very enthusiastic. One of them had heard about the book, and immediately said, when we called, 'I want one in the best binding.' He then took my book, saying, 'Wait a minute,' and went out. He soon returned and said, 'I will take five in the best binding.' It is very encouraging to be able to sit still and let the people sell our books for us."

Colporteurs' Summary for December, 1913

UNIONS AGTS. HRS. Books VALUE 1913 Books VALUE 1912 Periodicals NO. COP. Periodicals VALUE 1913 Periodicals VALUE 1912
Atlantic
Maine 5 109 $ 87.60 $ 63.15 810 $ 81.00 $ 91.00
N. New England 11 210 249.00 205.83 252 25.20 46.40
Massachusetts 9 403 399.05 225.85 1775 177.50 172.50
S. New England 4 224 184.05 ... 1124 112.40 87.50
New York 10 345 341.75 573.55 645 64.50 124.70
W. New York 10 392 368.91 119.05 239 23.90 197.80
Gr. New York 16 692 739.64 321.19 5900 590.00 428.50
Totals 65 2375 2370.00 1508.62 10745 1074.50 1148.40
Columbia
Ohio 25 2061 1596.60 479.25 1629 162.90 389.70
West Virginia 7 773 923.90 471.05 139 13.90 11.50
Chesapeake 6 369 284.00 333.05 382 38.20 52.00
E. Pennsylvania 7 565 429.90 674.10 467 46.70 235.10
W. Pennsylvania 5 589 631.96 766.51 621 62.10 120.10
New Jersey 7 495 446.10 448.85 1990 199.00 120.10
Dist. of Columbia 7 454 259.95 181.30 526 52.60 131.80
Virginia 11 400 161.05 23.00 862 86.20 86.50
Totals 75 5706 4733.46 3377.11 6616 661.60 1146.80
Lake Union
E. Michigan 7 459 235.48 355.25 3680 368.00 170.30
W. Michigan 5 455 213.20 79.75 261 26.10 61.90
N. Michigan 7 244 105.55 148.40 280 28.00 41.00
Wisconsin 2 178 130.90 168.35 750 75.00 142.50
N. Illinois 2 149 54.35 293.40 5235 523.50 280.00
S. Illinois 10 1012 791.08 477.40 101 10.10 62.50
Indiana 13 897 602.65 191.00 585 58.50 29.60
Totals 46 3394 2133.21 1713.55 10892 1089.20 787.80
Eastern Canadian
Ontario 2 ... 492.25 127.25 736 73.60 121.70
Quebec 3 ... 185.90 ... 200 20.00 65.00
Maritime 3 ... 128.50 ... 10 1.00 .50
Newfoundland .. ... ... 12.75 90 9.00 ...
Totals 8 ... 806.65 140.00 1036 103.60 187.20
Southern
Louisiana 18 1117 658.25 103.25 280 28.00 45.00
Alabama 8 552 318.50 477.25 375 37.50 44.40
Kentucky 12 671 504.00 352.75 1060 106.00 111.00
Mississippi 12 958 596.20 322.85 490 49.00 45.20
Tennessee River 8 729 485.00 251.45 510 51.00 194.70
Totals 58 4027 2561.95 1507.55 2715 271.50 440.30
Southeastern
Cumberland 8 454 130.30 271.00 60 6.00 35.00
Georgia 9 700 441.50 485.80 1035 103.50 240.50
North Carolina 11 1039 694.35 431.35 750 75.00 162.50
South Carolina 12 1169 817.86 307.50 860 86.00 27.00
Florida 7 510 684.89 421.53 210 21.00 37.00
Totals 47 3872 2768.90 1917.18 2915 291.50 502.00
Southwestern
Arkansas 16 280 611.05 531.70 177 17.70 9.50
Oklahoma 24 471 380.75 488.20 712 71.20 75.50
W. Texas 6 111 89.20 74.65 60 6.00 ...
S. Texas 12 534 217.50 244.20 525 52.50 39.40
N. Texas 14 513 226.25 145.75 175 17.50 27.50
New Mexico 4 126 38.60 388.55 250 25.00 37.50
Totals 76 2035 1563.35 1873.05 1899 189.90 189.40
Central
N. Missouri 11 334 529.65 ... 1181 118.10 15.40
S. Missouri 12 603 988.95 384.60 514 51.40 14.50
E. Colorado .. ... ... 351.25 665 66.50 86.00
W. Colorado .. ... ... 387.00 317 31.70 8.50
Nebraska 10 213 339.65 110.80 950 95.00 204.00
Wyoming .. ... ... ... ... ... 60.00
E. Kansas .. ... ... 374.20 260 26.00 77.50
W. Kansas 20 367 379.30 412.60 456 45.60 70.00
Totals 53 1570 2137.55 2020.45 4343 434.30 535.90
Northern
Iowa .. ... ... 224.10 4948 494.80 348.20
Minnesota 6 230 264.00 66.00 2908 290.80 153.00
North Dakota 11 451 759.98 ... 682 68.20 15.50
South Dakota 2 25 84.30 ... 123 12.30 46.00
Totals 19 725 1108.28 290.10 8661 866.10 562.70
Pacific 1913 1912 1913
California 18 228 $ 102.25 $ ... 1565 $ 156.50 $ ...
N. Cal.-Nev. 14 197 226.80 1015.35 479 47.90 45.10
Arizona 4 185 163.25 1065.00 ... ... 1.00
S. California 29 407 657.65 863.55 1841 184.10 240.70
Utah .. ... ... 41.00 140 14.00 1.50
Cen. California 21 205 678.55 753.30 805 80.50 29.20
California Coast .. ... ... 285.80 307 30.70 174.30
Totals 86 1222 1828.50 4024.00 5137 513.70 491.80
North Pacific
W. Washington 17 ... 256.07 191.50 2150 215.00 304.60
Upper Columbia 4 81 156.60 846.05 270 27.00 35.00
W. Oregon 13 199 182.25 523.20 925 92.50 307.80
S. Idaho .. ... ... ... 360 36.00 35.20
Montana 10 ... 185.27 158.95 1025 102.50 50.00
S. Oregon 6 55 127.75 132.70 187 18.70 27.00
Totals 50 335 897.94 1852.40 4917 491.70 759.60
West Canadian
Alberta .. ... 267.90 ... 125 12.50 166.00
Manitoba .. ... 75.56 ... 620 62.00 5.50
British Columbia 4 151 254.53 ... 3210 321.00 16.50
Saskatchewan .. ... 141.04 ... 240 24.00 33.80
Totals 4 151 739.03 ... 4195 419.50 221.80
Subscription lists ... ... ... ... 27806 2780.60 3183.50
Foreign and miscellaneous ... ... ... ... 7627 762.70 962.70
Foreign Union Conferences and Missions
Philippine Islands .. ... ... 375.70 ... ... ...
British 51 4054 1908.05 2428.36 185126 3776.81 1135.24
Australasian 77 5248 9841.68 7564.83 ... 2121.03 2103.92
South African 11 1131 1845.48 1522.60 788 50.82 78.52
Indian 18 2701 592.66 511.60 ... ... ...
Scandinavian 91 10605 4542.27 3251.38 5802 365.19 266.59
E. German 95 8148 2420.24 13987.00 65780 1587.69 8149.20
W. German 106 8922 2873.98 ... 86326 2209.50 ...
Danube 33 3072 868.59 ... 3658 ... ...
Cen. European 97 9835 3116.79 ... 21613 674.05 ...
Russian 22 ... 1362.40 1156.05 ... 29.78 ...
Siberian 2 ... 236.07 77.36 ... ... ...
Latin 8 799 550.85 1029.23 7001 216.04 173.61
Mexican 2 226 535.00 ... 7750 361.96 387.56
Porto Rico 2 ... 290.40 83.70 ... 4.88 131.35
Cuba 5 180 370.25 1054.00 ... 17.27 43.60
W. Caribbean 5 ... 570.42 ... 2345 175.70 ...
E. Caribbean 1 ... 348.50 ... ... ... ...
Levant 9 542 41.83 92.14 ... ... ...
Korean .. ... 4.12 ... 2842 71.05 ...
South American 13 626 1440.55 2506.10 36 99.05 236.89
Japan 8 1049 14.27 ... 1391 47.30 ...
Brazil 9 ... 1249.30 1427.85 ... ... ...
Canary Islands 1 ... 1067.40 ... ... ... ...
China .. ... ... ... ... ... 141.61
Totals, foreign 666 57138 36991.10 37067.90 390458 11808.12 12848.09
Totals, N. Am. 587 25412 23648.82 20224.01 99504 9950.40 11119.90
Grand totals 1253 82550 $ 59739.92 $ 57291.91 489962 $ 21758.52 $ 23967.99

Comparative Book Summary

1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913
Jan. ... $ 25,929.06 $ 40,677.06 $ 42,532.23 $ 44,495.65 $ 53,931.97 $ 64,262.88
Feb. ... 30,466.40 48,748.21 50,990.34 53,923.57 53,525.18 62,813.12
March ... 35,757.15 52,703.85 55,711.55 73,015.56 73,374.99 66,640.42
April ... 43,858.29 55,109.54 64,042.39 73,548.31 73,027.32 73,520.45
May ... 67,455.44 82,971.94 86,333.58 81,923.78 94,166.15 101,640.01
June ... 82,878.67 124,412.34 112,606.05 135,888.76 137,838.38 139,217.06
July ... 120,973.89 95,445.21 103,919.12 127,256.86 156,166.90 140,576.74
Aug. ... 66,946.38 71,652.97 91,145.11 91,810.46 103,165.69 111,660.64
Sept. ... 51,148.56 55,625.41 66,523.65 86,001.72 67,551.70 73,732.12
Oct. ... 62,719.91 52,669.93 62,461.13 81,367.89 70,219.07 84,013.90
Nov. ... 53,787.31 49,964.99 58,211.68 67,600.00 77,424.87 73,949.68
Dec. ... 39,873.18 45,759.73 54,663.93 58,386.24 57,291.91 59,739.92
Totals $ 681,794.24 $ 775,741.18 $ 849,140.76 $ 976,218.80 $ 1,017,684.13 $ 1,051,766.94

Comparative Summary of American Periodicals

1910 1911 1912 1913 1910 1911 1912 1913
Jan.* 89462 122202 121666 177080 Aug. 152520 215773 183119 153849
Feb. 116198 99234 144257 201650 Sept. 120020 135179 173077 127017
March 132165 244003 207529 166499 Oct. 116157 164537 587830 126562
April 183981 192757 189498 152088 Nov. 102795 110326 108755 100351
May 174886 141204 162220 166465 Dec. 99137 98541 111199 99504
June 193727 145025 163120 156550
July 222146 197582 191937 176772 T'ls. 1703194 1866363 2344207 1804396

Comparative Summary for Foreign Periodicals

January, 1912, 457,122 copies, value $11,248.02; 1913, 402,908 copies, value $10,301.63.
February, 1912, 384,735 copies, value $9,671.61; 1913, 394,257 copies, value $12,342.06.
March, 1912, 378,416 copies, value $10,170; 1913, 395,933 copies, value $12,987.49.
April, 1912, 358,150 copies, value $9,540.85; 1913, 630,998 copies, value $17,795.92.
May, 1912, 383,087 copies, value $14,418.45; 1913, 481,712 copies, value $15,547.70.
June, 1912, 353,606 copies, value $11,583.20; 1913, 331,775 copies, value $13,610.33.
July, 1912, 369,898 copies, value $12,774.73; 1913, 335,770 copies, value $10,831.02.
August, 1912, 346,928 copies, value $10,831.40; 1913, 313,746 copies, value $9,987.06.
September, 1912, 332,948 copies, value $10,889.11; 1913, 285,257 copies, value $9,537.95.
October, 1912, 379,837 copies, value $12,255.77; 1913, 303,818 copies, value $9,824.08.
November, 1912, 507,894 copies, value $15,859.89; 1913, 341,418 copies, value $11,000.
December, 1912, 528,293 copies, value $12,848.09; 1913, 390,458 copies, value $11,808.12.
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