News and Notes by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 22, 1910

News and Notes

By A. J. S. B.

“How to Regain the First Love” is the title of Home Missionary Leaflet No. 4. Have you read it? If not, ask your tract society secretary for a copy.

ONE of the chief burdens on the minds of the leaders assembled at the late fall council of the General Conference Committee was the extensive circulation of our tracts, periodicals, and books in the large cities of America.

WHAT preparations are you making for the fourth Sabbath home missionary service, to be held in your church Sabbath, December 24? For suggestive program and other information, see pages 19, 20 of the REVIEW for December 8.

BISHOP MIRAGLIA, founder of the Independent Catholic Church of Italy, recently ordered fifty copies of Liberty for distribution among his congregations. A few days later he ordered one hundred additional copies, and expressed his interest in our work and belief.

THE manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Association informs us that orders can still be filled for the back numbers of the Present Truth series of the Signs weekly. For the small sum of $3.25 you can have the twenty-five papers in this series sent to five separate addresses. Send your list to-day to your tract society office.

IN order to assist in giving the message to our large cities, our publishing houses have agreed to add to all conference orders of ten thousand or more copies of any one magazine a bonus equal to one tenth of the number ordered. These orders, however, must reach the office of publication one month in advance of the date of issue. Otherwise our agents' orders would be greatly interfered with.

IN order to make our home missionary campaign a complete success, the REVIEW should be placed in every Sabbath-keeping family. Will you not urge the importance of this matter upon all heads of families not now enjoying its weekly visits? Some may be so poor that they can not afford to subscribe for a full year at a time. Such may pay fifty cents for a three-months' subscription, or ninety cents for six months. The church should pay for the subscriptions of destitute families. Let there be a general rally to this, our denominational news letter.

A RECENT political victory in a large city is credited wholly to a systematic literature campaign described briefly as follows: “The party's plan of campaign was unique. In the absence of a daily newspaper organ, they had printed each week, for the last six weeks, many thousands of copies of a four-page paper printed in English and German, in which their doctrines were expounded. These periodicals were taken in hand by twelve hundred men each Sunday morning, and it is said that every household in the county was supplied with a copy. Noonday meetings at the factories and night meetings at various halls seven days of the week were also held for the last six weeks.” Like efforts with our literature will be accompanied by victories for the cause of present truth. Join our “Tract Pocket League,” maintain a good reading-rack in your vicinity, engage in the sale of our forty-per-cent books during the holidays, or take an agency for one of our ten-cent magazines. Spread the literature everywhere, and God will bless your efforts.

WHILE looking up a place for a series of meetings, one of our ministers in the North Pacific Union Conference called upon a man who, learning that his caller was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, expressed himself as follows: “I know you people have the truth. I have read the Signs of the Times for years, though I never attended any of your meetings. If you ever come to this town to hold meetings, I have a hall that will seat about four hundred persons. You are welcome to it free of charge. Or if you find some other place, I am willing to help bear the expense, as I would like to see you come to this town.” Some one sent the paper to this man. To how many persons are you sending it? A. J. S. B.