THE WORK AND THE WORKERS
By Editor
Writing under date of March 8, Elder C. W. Flaiz, president of the North Pacific Union Conference, spoke of his own experience with the last number of the Protestant Magazine: “The March number of the Protestant Magazine came to our table last evening, and I read it through at one sitting. . . . In its field it is rapidly becoming authority; and as these problems are agitated, its circulation will surely increase.” Elder R. H. Martin, who is located at Wilmington, Del., reports his experience in the following statements: “You will be glad to know that we circulated over 1,000 Free Press Extras in this city. They counted immensely with those not of our faith. I was literally besieged for them until Congress adjourned.” The petition page of the Free Press Extra was used very widely, and a great number of petitions against the postal bills were sent to Congress. Brother A. F. Harrison, general missionary agent of the Southwestern Union Conference, knows how to set a good example to others in the work of circulating our literature. After reading the March number of the Protestant Magazine, Brother Harrison was so impressed with its value that he went out and in two hours secured eleven subscriptions. If each worker would follow his example, the circulation of the magazine would be largely increased. The last two editions of the first quarter of the Liberty Magazine, amounting to 40,000 copies, are exhausted, and still the orders are coming. “I like the Protestant Magazine very much,” writes Pastor H. H. Burkholder, of Ohio. “And I find pleasure in passing on to its editor a word of appreciation for his vigorous defense of primitive Christianity and jealous regard for the fundamental principles upon which our national government was founded.” This second number of the Liberty Magazine shows how the Catholic Church introduced a religious controversy into Congress for settlement, and was defeated in its efforts not only to restrict the freedom of the press, but also to secure special legislation authorizing the appropriation of government funds for its sectarian schools among the Indians. This number also deals with the prohibition question and recent Sunday prosecutions, hearings, and the defeats of many Sunday bills. It sparkles with interest from the first page to the last. Brother Wm. Schmidt, one of the students attending Washington (D. C.) Missionary College, reports the recent sale of $11.85 worth of literature in a house-to-house canvass of just two hours in the city of Washington. During that time he took one order for a $5.00 binding of “Patriarchs and Prophets,” one for a $4.50 “The Desire of Ages,” sold 11 copies of the “War” Liberty, and 5 copies of the new campaign book “The World’s Crisis.” A number of the other students are also making their way through college by the sale of literature one or two afternoons each week. The issue of Liberty Magazine for the second quarter is now ready. It is called the Eastern Question and Free Press Number. It gives the most interesting part of the Congressional hearing on the three bills which aimed to restrict the freedom of the press. This will make it an easy seller because of the nationwide stir over the important questions discussed in this issue. Liberty Magazine for the second quarter deals with the European war and the Eastern Question in the light of prophecy. The picture on the front cover is a living and thrilling war scene, and ten striking war pictures are scattered through the body of the magazine. The back cover design is a striking cartoon on an attempt to abolish the freedom of the press. The pictures of those who spoke at the Congressional hearing for and against the postal bills which were designed to muzzle the press, accompany the speeches made. It is a very attractive and commanding number. Its very looks will sell it. A FREE copy of the first quarter of Liberty Magazine was sent by our different conferences to every judge and lawyer in most of the States in the Union. Our people in the cities should now take the Free Press number to all these prominent men. By following up the work in this way, there will be no trouble in selling them other copies or in taking yearly subscriptions. Why not have the missionary society or the young people’s society order a club of 50 for $2.00, or 100 for $4.00, and try the plan? Some one ought to follow up this work in our cities and make effective the good work already begun.