p. 21 | Gleanings From Our Mail-Bag

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1912

Gleanings From Our Mail-Bag

UNDER the above heading, Brother A. J. S. Bourdeau, manager of the ten-cent magazine department of the Review and Herald, sends the following interesting notes. Such responses as these should encourage us to put forth greater efforts than ever before in behalf of our good magazines:—

“Last night I took seventeen subscriptions, fifteen for the Protestant and two for Liberty. While on the train yesterday morning I engaged a brother in conversation, and obtained his order. Please do not understand this to be my report, but you may expect to hear from us in the field.”—J. H. Behrens, Pres. Cent. Cal. Conf.

“I found a copy of the Protestant Magazine in the Berkeley, Cal., railway station. I enjoyed reading it, and decided to subscribe for two copies. Enclosed find fifty cents. May God bless his word; it is ‘quick and powerful.’ The only thing for his own is to ‘come out.’”—Miss A. E. G., San Francisco, Cal.

“I sold fifty copies of the Protestant, and secured ten subscriptions. Called on Mr. ——, on Broadway, a business man, and he gave me one dollar for one copy, and subscribed for one year. Sold many to Orangemen.”—An agent in New York City.

A copy of the Free Press number of Liberty has been mailed to 174 members of the South Carolina Legislature, the governor, and other State officials. This Thomas Jefferson number is being sold very rapidly by our agents everywhere. Send $2 for fifty copies, and distribute or sell them in your town.

“As the official paper of our prohibition movement, we should be very glad to exchange with your magazine Liberty. We find your timely articles and discussion of current reforms of great interest to our workers everywhere. We are at all times anxious to recognize the splendid service which Liberty is rendering the cause of civic welfare.”—F. D. L. Squires, editor American Advance, Chicago.

The editor of a paper published in the international language, Esperanto, has translated “Our Theses,” found on the second cover page of the Protestant Magazine for his paper. He is much pleased with the policy of our magazine.

“I secured fifty subscriptions for the Protestant this month. Am planning to make a house-to-house canvass in that section of the city where I shall conduct my meetings. This provides an excellent opening for a call, and besides, I usually get the magazine into the homes of the people. I pledge my support to the Protestant during this new year.”—A minister in Knoxville, Tenn.

“Is the Protestant Magazine alive yet? I found one on the street one day, in the dirt, a copy of the Protestant for 1909. It is a very good magazine. I am a German Lutheran, and think we Protestants should wake up before the United States is in the hands of the Pope. I am a working man, and have been in this land ten years. Can read English better than I can write it. I am a barber, and the other barbers have also read that copy I found. If the Protestant Magazine is in existence yet, I will have it in my house. Shall I send the money to you, or order it in a news store? Please let me know also if I can have any old copies of last year, and how much they will cost?”—F. H., Bridgeport, Conn.

BROTHER G. C. HOSKIN, manager of the magazine department of the Pacific Press, sends us the following encouraging item: “One of our young women from the folding-room has been taking a vacation for two weeks, and for pastime has been gaining some good experiences with the monthly Signs. She has been selling quite a number of copies. Yesterday morning she came into the office, and took 75 papers away with her. Last night she wrote us from San Jose that she sold all these within four hours, and requested us to send 250 more by the first train in the morning. She assured us that her orders would be 500 a month during the next two months, after which she would increase them to 750. If this kind of work keeps up, we shall no doubt lose one of our good folding-room department girls, but we can get others to make the magazines if she continues selling them.”—N. Z. T.