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Review and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 12.

WAITING FOR THE LORD
Earlier text: Honan, China

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. Hansen

A Union Conference Effort

DEFINITE work is being done, and definite results are being seen, in a special effort that is now on in the Columbia Union Conference. Early in January the president, Elder B. G. Wilkinson, took up correspondence with the various conference presidents, making arrangements for a definite date in each conference for a thorough “Ministry of Healing” campaign.
A period in March was decided upon as the selling time. Before this date, churches were to be visited, instructed concerning the campaign, and their orders taken for the books. Union and local conference officers and workers would join forces. Such help as could be given by General Conference men, by Sabbath visits, was to be rendered. The matter was to be kept in the columns of the union paper in live form. Officers would send out letters, instructions, and suggestions for organization to workers, church elders, and individual church-members. Every church and company of believers was to be reached, and isolated members not to be overlooked, so that every member of every conference would take at least the quota of books for one year.
These thorough plans met with the hearty acceptance of all the presidents, and in the different conferences the work is now being carried forward accordingly. Herewith are given some statements of attitude and experience, as taken from the columns of the Columbia Union Visitor and other sources.
After presenting the details of this special effort, the president of the union says: “There is a blessing in selling a book like ‘Ministry of Healing.’ The world needs to-day just such a book, with its bright rays of light on soul and body healing. One sister in West Pennsylvania sold a copy to the editor of the leading daily in a certain city, and he was so pleased with it that, unasked, he at once printed an excellent testimonial in its favor.
“Our sanitariums need the financial help which will come from the sale of this book. Brother, sister, in the work of the Lord, do you not wish to help financially these institutions which in 1909 proclaimed to twenty-five thousand patients, people of the better classes, every Friday night the opening hours of the Sabbath? Do you not wish to assist the great medical missionary work which, every year, is doing so many deeds of charity and bringing so many blessings to needy souls?
“Let us all—people, workers, and officers—take hold heartily in this campaign, and do our part. Let none say, ‘This is not my work.’ God will bless the willing worker.”

In New Jersey

The president of the New Jersey Conference, Elder B. F. Kneeland, states his position as follows: “The work of selling ‘Ministry of Healing’ deserves, and must have, our very best effort. We are glad for what has been accomplished, but this is only a small part of what must be done. No one can estimate the good that this book will do when placed in the homes of the people. Now is the time when the whole world is eager for light on the subjects of healthful living and the prevention of disease. Now is our grand opportunity; and I am convinced that if we pass it by indifferently, we shall bitterly regret our mistake. This conference should lay plans for the completion of this campaign at the earliest possible date.”
Many good experiences are reported from this conference. One of our sisters went with fear and trembling to carry a copy of “Ministry of Healing” to the home of a minister. She was not able to give a canvass, but left the book with the minister’s sister, and went home. Within three hours the woman was at her door with the money for the book, saying that her brother wanted such a book very much. “Ministry of Healing” seems to sell itself. An ex-judge picked up a copy of the book in the home of one of our sisters the other evening. Without her saying a word, he said, “If that book is for sale, I want a copy,” and paid her the money for it on the spot.

In West Virginia

The president of this conference writes thus in the union paper: “Eternity only will reveal the good which these books will do in the homes of the people. The Lord is giving us the privilege of doing this work, and either faithfulness or unfaithfulness will be written opposite our names in the ledger of heaven. The Holy Spirit is impressing the people to buy, if we will but carry the books to them, and use our God-given talents to present this work. I trust that we shall all be faithful, and finally receive the overcomers’ reward.”
The matter has been kept before the conference in various ways. Effectual work has been done by both laborers and people, and good results are reported. The membership of the West Virginia Conference is not large, but they mean to do their share, and enjoy their part of the blessing to be found in this work.

In the Virginia Conference

The president of the Virginia Conference says to the believers in that field: “Have you taken a lively interest in the ‘Ministry of Healing’ campaign? We are to sell this book for the relief of our sanitariums. While it is our duty to do this, the doing of it will bring us a blessing, will bless our neighbors, and will relieve our institutions of their burden of debt. If you have taken no books as yet, secure some at once. Read them carefully, and sell them. And you can sell them. It is the slothful man who says, ‘There is a lion in the way.’ The money is needed now, and we must get it and pass it on.”
Encouraging reports come from this conference where the work has been begun. While not strong in numbers, this conference has good material and a fine field, and it will doubtless fulfil its part in this effort, and enjoy its share of blessing.
There are other conferences in the Columbia Union that have united in this special effort, whose reports must be left for another time. Sufficient has been given to show that general co-operation may be secured in this relief movement, and that when it is given the results are telling. What is being done in one part of the field, offers encouragement to others. Shall we not see a greater development of the spirit of willingness to enter upon this good work?
L. A. HANSEN.

Work While the Day Lasts

THE work we do not do in a time of peace and quiet, we shall have to do under the most adverse and trying circumstances. This thought has been impressed upon our minds by some experiences of our magazine workers here in the city of Washington. A few days ago, when one of our agents presented the magazine Liberty to a citizen who is strongly in favor of Sunday laws, he was assured that Seventh-day Adventists, as opposers of Sunday laws, have about reached their limit. Another agent was told by an influential Catholic that the Catholics are forming a society to put down the sale of these magazines in the city of Washington.

Christian Liberty

Reports, Notes, and Comments Pertaining to the Current History of the Rights of Conscience
Conducted by the Religious Liberty Bureau
K. C. RUSSELL . . . . . Secretary C. M. SNOW . . . . . Corresponding Secretary

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— One of the marvels of the wireless was the picking up of a message at San Francisco, sent from the steamship “Korea,” 4,492 miles away, in the Pacific. The message came faintly, but clearly enough to be made out.
— March 13, Russia sent an ultimatum to China, insisting upon a closer adherence to the treaty of 1881, which has been the subject of negotiations between the two countries for some weeks past. It is claimed that only the immediate execution of the Chinese treaty obligations toward Russia can interrupt an advance of the Russian army, which is prepared to occupy Chinese territory.
— Five powder-mills owned by the Dupont Powder Company were blown up March 9 at Pleasant Prairie, Wis. More than 3,000,000 pounds of powder and dynamite were exploded. The force of the concussion was so great that it was felt in five States; the village of Pleasant Prairie was totally destroyed, many buildings were wrecked in contiguous sections of the country; one man was killed, and a number were injured. It is reputed to be the most destructive powder explosion on record.
— Ninety persons, mostly children, were burned and trampled to death in a fire that destroyed a moving-picture theater at Belogoe, Russia, March 5. Forty persons were injured, many seriously.
— It is proposed to inoculate the army mobilized along the Mexican border with typhoid virus, for protection against the possible spread of that disease among the troops. Practical immunity is claimed as the result of this remedy.
— In his determination to stamp out the rebellion in Mexico, President Díaz has ordered shot all persons detected in the act of highway robbery, raiding, train-wrecking, cutting telegraph or telephone wires, or even throwing stones at passing trains.
— A revolution has been in progress in Paraguay for some time against the government of Col. Alberto Jara, who was recently elected president. Friends of former President Condra are behind the revolt. Martial law has been proclaimed in Paraguay for a period of five months.
— Starting at midnight, March 10, time was annihilated in France for nine minutes and twenty-one seconds. On the stroke of the hour all clocks were stopped for the time indicated, to comply with the law, making the time of the republic the same as in all places within a radius of fifteen degrees, in which the time is regulated from Greenwich, England.
— Stirred by the belief that the revolutionary movement has reached a critical stage, the insurrectos in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, are reported to have become very active in tearing up railroads and cutting telegraph wires. According to reports, numerous towns are under siege, and thousands of women and children are cut off from food supplies.
— Hudson Maxim is reported as saying that the United States is now possessed of the greatest war explosive known, one of his own manufacture, and one that is exclusively controlled by this government. The projectile does not explode on contact, but can be sent through the armor of a ship, exploding when reaching the interior, where its work will be much more destructive.
— The mobilization of United States troops along the Mexican border has actively continued during the past week. It is planned to mobilize an army of 20,000, and a number of war-ships have been sent to the Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of the administration in this mobilization has not yet been satisfactorily explained. It is believed that the government has advices and information not generally known, as to danger to life and property in consequence of the insurrection in Mexico, and that in pursuance of the policy of upholding the Monroe doctrine, it proposes to assume responsibility for the protection of foreigners. For lack of definite information, there is much criticism throughout the country regarding what appears to be an unwarranted action. It is believed, however, by many that when full details of the situation are made known, it will be seen that President Taft has acted with discretion.
— At Virginia, Minn., March 11, twenty-six workmen were crushed to death in an open mine by an avalanche of ore, ice, and earth.
— The erection of a new building in New York hardly seems a matter of great importance, but one just begun is an exception to the rule. It is to be the tallest building ever erected. It will be 750 feet high, fifty feet higher than the Metropolitan tower, and nearly 150 feet higher than the Singer tower. The main building, which will have a whole block frontage on Broadway, opposite the post-office, is to be from twenty-seven to thirty stories in height, with a tower eighty feet square in the middle of it that will have twenty-five additional stories. The land on which it is to be erected cost $5,000,000, and the building is to cost $12,000,000 more. It will contain 13,000,000 cubic feet, and is to be of fire-proof construction throughout. The building is to be used for mercantile purposes.

News and Notes

By A. J. S. B.

THE Internationale Traktatgesellschaft (International Tract Society), our publishing-house in Hamburg, Germany, issues seventeen papers and magazines in the following ten languages: German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Bohemian, Rumanian, Lettonian, Esthonian, Servian, and Polish. Their combined circulation during the year 1910 was 2,545,675 copies.
BROTHER G. C. HOSKIN, formerly secretary of the Iowa Tract Society, recently connected with the Pacific Press periodical department. Speaking of the circulation of the March Signs Monthly, he writes, under date of March 1: “This number is beating them all. Of the regular twenty-five-thousand edition, we now have only five thousand left on the first day of the month, which means that under ordinary circumstances the edition will be gone inside of a week or ten days.”
OUR three missionary periodicals having the largest circulation are the following: Herold der Wahrheit, our eight-page, fortnightly German paper, with an annual circulation of 1,722,550 copies (an average edition of 70,000); Present Truth, our British sixteen-page weekly, with an annual circulation approximating 1,000,000 copies; the Signs of the Times weekly, our well-known sixteen-page pioneer missionary paper, with an annual circulation of 885,875 copies. The combined annual circulation of the three is 3,608,425 copies.
OUR denomination now publishes 126 periodicals and magazines. The latest to be added to the list is El Hogar (The Home), a twelve-page monthly published at Lima, Peru. The pages are of the same size as those of the REVIEW.
THE following incident, related by the father of a thirteen-year-old boy, is of more than ordinary interest: “My youngest boy, Clarence, sold six hundred copies of Life and Health last summer in forty hours. My last order for two hundred copies for him was half sold during the first day of his Christmas vacation.” This boy’s sale of six hundred copies thus averaged him a profit of ninety cents an hour. During his first day’s vacation, he sold one hundred copies, making a profit of six dollars. Many other thirteen-year-old boys could do as well. Write for sample copies, and instructions to agents. Then teach your boy or girl to engage in this helpful, self-supporting profitable missionary work with our magazines. Address your conference tract society secretary. Do so to-day.
BROTHER R. HOOK, JR., manager of the Southern Publishing Association, sends the following interesting item concerning the influence of the Watchman: “We have just received a special-delivery letter from a man in the eastern part of Kentucky, reading as follows: ‘In the February Watchman was an article on “The World’s Unrest,” signed c. p. b. I suppose it was written by your Mr. C. P. Bollman. As I have been studying along this line for some time myself, I should like to talk with him personally. Could I see him if I should come to your city Thursday, or any day after it this week? Telegraph me, upon receipt of this, what day to come.’ Surely the Watchman must have merit when people feel interested enough to make a four-hundred-mile trip in order to study more fully the truths which we believe. Truly the work with our periodicals is missionary work indeed.”
“ONE day last week,” writes an agent for the Signs Monthly, “I sold forty-five copies of the Signs in three hours in the following way: I went into one office about noon, where nearly a hundred clerks were working. In the rear of the office is a dining-room, where they all take lunch. I took my stand before the door of the dining-room and talked to the men as they came out, selling in this way eighteen copies in twenty-five minutes. I then went quickly across the street, into another office, and sold twelve copies in the same way. I ran over to a third place; but it was then one o’clock, and the men had already begun to work. Going to the foreman, I sold him one paper, and asked the privilege of talking to the men. He said, ‘Go on, and sell all you can.’ The first man I talked to was a visitor, watching the men at work. He took one copy, and gave me ten cents. I thanked him and went to the next man, but the first gentleman called me back, and, having paid me ten cents each for every copy I had, said: ‘Now, go through the factory, and give your magazines to the men.’ It took me about ten minutes to do this, after which I went home, rejoicing and praising the Lord for his goodness to me.”
A. J. S. B.

The Magazine Summary

THE sales reported in each local and union conference represent only the sales of our ten-cent magazines by agents.
THE Watchman sales during February show a gain of 3,536 copies over those for the previous month, 2,655 of which represent the gain in agents’ sales.
WE are pleased to report that the Signs Monthly sales during February were 4,043 in excess of those for the previous month, the agents’ sales showing an increase of 3,125 copies.
THE heavy drop this month is largely accounted for by the unprecedented January sale of 46,939 magazines through subscription lists and abroad, as compared with 30,404 during February.
THE comparative summary at the close of our report shows that during the past twenty-six months, 3,372,033 of these ten-cent magazines have been sold, an average of 129,694 copies for each of the twenty-six months.
DURING February our agents sold 68,830 magazines, as compared with 75,263 in January—a loss of 6,433. This, added to the 16,535 loss in foreign and subscription sales, accounts for the 22,068 loss, as compared with last month.
OUR next summary will contain the first report of the Temperance Instructor sales since those reported for August, 1910. Of the 1909 edition, 110,000 copies were sold; of the 1910 special, 210,000 copies. The improved appearance and superior contents of the 1911 edition, just out, demand that we shall give it a total circulation of not less than 500,000 copies.
THE Southeastern, Southern Canadian, and Western Canadian union conferences show gains in comparison with both last month’s and last February’s records. The following show gains over last month: (1) Southeastern Union, 1,353; (2) Central Union, 1,185; (3) Canadian Union, 1,061; (4) Southern Union, 791; (5) Western Canadian Union, 191; (6) North Pacific Union, 16. The following show losses: (7) Northern Union, 519; (8) Lake Union, 544; (9) Columbia Union, 685; (10) Southwestern Union, 1,123; (11) Atlantic Union, 2,963; (12) Pacific Union, 5,306.
FOLLOWING is a list of the union conferences, showing the sales by agents, also the average sale for each member: (1) Southeastern Union, 6,847, or 3 3-10 copies a member; (2) Southern Union, 4,065, or 2 3-10 a member; (3) Atlantic Union, 9,258, or 1 3-4 a member; (4) Western Canadian, 2,005, or 1 5-8 a member; (5) Canadian Union, 1,615, or 1 5-8 a member; (6) Columbia Union, 8,679, or 1 1-4 a member; (7) Northern Union, 6,900, or 1 1-10 a member; (8) North Pacific Union, 5,314, or 5-6 of a copy a member; (9) Central Union, 7,166, or 7-10 of a copy a member; (10) Southwestern Union, 3,388, or 2-3 of a copy a member; (11) Lake Union, 8,537, or 2-3 of a copy a member; (12) Pacific Union, 5,056, or 5-8 of a copy a member. These figures are based on the latest membership statistics of the denomination, and though expressed in fractions, are approximately correct. Speaking in round numbers, our 67,336 members in the United States and Canada circulated nearly one and one-half copies each during February. Last July, however, the month’s average was nearly 3 1-3 copies a member. What are you doing to increase the average sale of our ten-cent magazines in your conference?
A. J. S. B.

The Missionary and Publishing Work

By E. R. Palmer; N. Z. Town; A. J. S. Bourdeau

Notes; Plans, Reports, Statistics, and Other Information Regarding Missionary Endeavor and the Circulation of Gospel Literature
Conducted by the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference
E. R. PALMER   Secretary N. Z. TOWN   Assistant Secretary A. J. S. BOURDEAU  Missionary Secretary

Business Notices

This department is conducted especially for the accommodation of the Seventh-day Adventist readers of this paper.
No advertisements of “agents wanted,” or “partners wanted,” and no “promotion” nor “colonization” enterprises, will be printed in this column. Brief business notices will be published, subject to the discretion of the publishers, and on compliance with the following—

Conditions

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We open no accounts for advertising, and cash must accompany each order.
A charge of one dollar will be made for each insertion of forty words or less. Each additional word, initial, or group of figures in excess of forty, will cost three cents.
No discount for several insertions.
FOR SALE.—Cooking Oil, best grade; 5-gallon can, $4.50, freight prepaid east of Denver, Colo., to Ohio and north of Ohio River. Shipped from Kansas City, Mo. Address R. H. Brock, Box 629, Kissimmee, Fla.
WANTED.—Situation in sanitarium or treatment-rooms. Thoroughly experienced in practical hydrotherapy and Swedish massage. Willing to do general work. Best references. O. E. Yingling, 1524 Friendsbury Place, Baltimore, Md.
FOR SALE.—Sanitarium Cooking Oil, pure, healthful, odorless; keeps indefinitely; 5-gallon can, $4.30; 10-gallon can, $8.45; bbl. (50 gallons), 75 cents a gallon; ½ bbl. (30 gallons), 76 cents a gallon. Address Sanitarium Cooking Oil Co., Louisville, Ky.
MAKE a good living on a small piece of ground with a Royal Fruit and Vegetable Canning Machine. Prices, $8.50 up. Supply your home market. Full instructions, cans, labels, etc. Circulars free. Address Home Supply and Manufacturing Company, Chattanooga, Tenn.
HYGIENIC VEGETABLE COOKING OIL.—No better shortening known. 5-gallon can, $4; ½ bbl. (about 32 gallons), 72 cents a gallon. By freight from Louisville or Chattanooga. One 16-gallon keg, $12.50 from Chattanooga only. Address Dr. O. C. Godsmark, Chattanooga, Tenn.
WANTED.—Position as housekeeper; am able to take charge of home; can do dress-making; have had experience with children. Am Sabbath-keeper, and can give good references; also require same. Position on farm preferable. Mrs. M. J. White, care of Sheyenne River Academy, Harvey, N. D.
FOR SALE.—Furniture store in Graysville, Tenn., doing good business. Excellent opportunity for person with small capital to make good living while sending children to Southern Training School. No objections to keeping open Sundays. For further particulars address Geo. B. Lane, Graysville, Tenn.
NEW, inspiring Scripture Post-Cards, beautifully embossed, illustrated Hymns, Holidays, and Birthdays, assorted, post-paid, 10 for 10 cents; 100, 90 cents. Elegant Floral Bible Mottoes (12 x 16), sample, 6 cents; 12, 65 cents; 50, $2.25; 100, $3.75; all prepaid. Particulars free. Waterbury Specialty Co., Brandon, Wis.
BEAUTIES! Beauties!—12 x 16 Bible Mottoes. Beautiful flowers of all kinds pleasing to the eye. In order to reduce our stock of almost one-half million Mottoes, we are making a very low price: 200, $6; 350, $10. “Father” and “Mother” mottoes included in this offer. We have a fine line of mottoes, and make them ourselves. The more you buy, the less they cost. We also have a fine line of Post-Cards at 60 cents a hundred. Our Mottoes are varnished with the highest grade of varnish, and the work is done by one of the best lithographing houses in the United States. Order of the Hampton Art Company, Lock Box 257, Hampton, Iowa.
MALTSUGAR FREE.—Our special offer of 6 pounds Maltsugar free, and extra foods to pay the freight on $10 shipments east of Colorado, is extended to April 17. Three pounds and half freight on $5 shipments. Cooking Oil and 45-pound cans Nut Butter can not apply to this offer. Don’t fail to take advantage of this exceedingly liberal offer, and use the best of foods. Our entire line of good, substantial, wholesome foods is made from clean, fresh, high-grade materials, and only Kokofat, our pure cocoanut oil, is used for shortening. No animal fat, not even butter, is used in our foods. Address the Nashville Sanitarium-Food Factory, Nashville, Tenn.
WANTED.—A competent gentleman nurse to work in treatment-rooms. Give salary required and references. Address Nebraska Sanitarium, College View, Neb.
FOR SALE OR TRADE.—Eighty acres good wheat or vegetable land, all cleared, in Weld County, Colorado. Coming under ditch. New house, barn, well, and fences; partly cultivated. Price, $2,600; on account of old age, desire lower altitude; prefer Pacific Coast. J. H. Conway, Nunn, Colo.
WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS.—Fishel’s premium birds, thoroughbred, highest class. Eggs, $2, $3, and $5 for fifteen; 50 eggs, $5.50; 100, $10. Shipped safely anywhere. Unfertile eggs replaced free. Beautiful illustrated price-list free. Address Forrest Washburn, 665 Decatur St., Memphis, Tenn.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By Editor

A Strong Premium

THE Signs of the Times weekly is presenting an attractive premium offer. From the interesting and helpful matter that has appeared in the Question Corner department of the paper for a number of years, there has been compiled a volume of over 250 pages, containing almost 300 questions and answers, with table of contents and Scriptural and topical indexes. This is given as a premium with subscriptions to the weekly Signs. The difficult and least understood questions on Bible subjects, which have been the source of much perplexity to our people, are answered; and the book is being eagerly sought after by our ministers, Bible workers, and others who are called upon to meet the people. The book is neatly and attractively bound in cloth, and presents a good appearance. It will, without doubt, prove a great help and a handy book of reference to those who secure it.
It is well worth $1.25, but can be secured only as a premium with the Signs of the Times. It will be sent post-paid for one yearly subscription at $2; one two years' subscription to one person at $3.50; or one new and one renewal at the regular rate of $1.75 each, which is $3.50, sent in by one person. If you are already a subscriber, you can have your time extended for a year, and secure a copy.
You should order at once through your tract society; or if you do not know the address, write to the Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Cal.

Summary of Magazine Sales for February, 1911

Showing the combined sale by agents in each union and local conference of the following ten-cent magazines: Signs Monthly, Watchman, Life and Health, Liberty, Protestant Magazine, Christian Education, Lys over Landet (Danish), Tidens Tecken (Swedish), and Zeichen der Zeit (German). The subscription and foreign sales appear at the end of the report.

Atlantic Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Maine 1545 1194 $119.40
Massachusetts 2749 1337 133.70
N. New England 265 425 42.50
S. New England 1230 873 87.30
Gr. New York 4037 3354 335.40
New York 1725 1105 110.50
W. New York 1548 970 97.00
Totals 13099 9258 925.80

Canadian Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Maritime 190 50 5.00
Ontario 413 1415 141.50
Quebec 312 50 5.00
Newfoundland 54 100 10.00
Totals 969 1615 161.50

Western Canadian Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Alberta 681 420 42.00
British Columbia 249 1210 121.00
Manitoba 267 345 34.50
Saskatchewan 253 30 3.00
Totals 1450 2005 200.50

Central Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Colorado 1241 902 90.20
West Colorado 633 11 1.10
East Kansas ... 985 98.50
West Kansas 1870 1020 102.00
N. Missouri 1070 2184 218.40
St. Louis Mission ... 465 46.50
S. Missouri 736 75 7.50
Nebraska 5738 1399 139.90
Wyoming 92 125 12.50
Totals 11380 7166 716.60

Columbia Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Chesapeake 615 1359 135.90
District of Col. 1180 1567 156.70
New Jersey 2612 807 80.70
E. Pennsylvania 1686 794 79.40
W. Pennsylvania 839 1740 174.00
Ohio 2662 1499 149.90
Virginia 661 700 70.00
West Virginia 125 213 21.30
Totals 10380 8679 867.90

Lake Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Indiana 2133 799 79.90
East Michigan 3905 1762 176.20
North Michigan 507 240 24.00
West Michigan 2999 899 89.90
Northern Illinois 5024 2323 232.30
Southern Illinois 1435 1073 107.30
Wisconsin 2811 1441 144.10
Totals 18804 8537 853.70

Northern Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Iowa 4613 3323 332.30
Minnesota 6186 1265 126.50
| | TOTALS FEB. 1910 | TOTALS FEB. 1911 | VALUE FEB. 1911 | | North Dakota | 1158 | 1247 | $124.70 | | South Dakota | 676 | 1065 | 106.50 | | Totals | 12633 | 6900 | 690.00 |

North Pacific Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Montana 873 125 12.50
Southern Idaho 469 400 40.00
Upper Col. 676 67.60
E. Oregon Mis. 1623 ... ...
S. Oregon 2479 220 22.00
W. Oregon 1847 184.70
W. Washington 3276 2046 204.60
Totals 8720 5314 531.40

Pacific Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Arizona 1137 ... ...
California 7032 3278 327.80
S. California 5318 1618 161.80
Utah 288 160 16.00
Totals 13775 5056 505.60

Southern Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Alabama 813 1140 114.00
Kentucky 299 1295 129.50
Louisiana 509 440 44.00
Mississippi 719 455 45.50
Tennessee River 630 735 73.50
Totals 2970 4065 406.50

Southeastern Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Cumberland 581 2507 250.70
Florida 1195 803 80.30
Georgia 3385 1975 197.50
North Carolina 262 1490 149.00
South Carolina 274 72 7.20
Totals 5697 6847 684.70

Southwestern Union Conference

TOTALS FEB. 1910 TOTALS FEB. 1911 VALUE FEB. 1911
Arkansas 181 1301 130.10
New Mexico 395 255 25.50
Oklahoma 1339 731 73.10
Texas 1526 1101 110.10
S. Texas Mis. ... ... ...
West Texas 437 ... ...
Totals 3878 3388 338.80
Foreign & Misc. 12443 7607 760.70
Subscription lists ... 22797 2279.70
Grand totals 116198 99234 9923.40

Comparative Summary for Twenty-six Months

TOTALS 1909 TOTALS 1910 TOTALS 1911
January 71094 89462 122202
February 91812 116198 99234
March 134206 132165 ...
April 120582 183981 ...
May 115145 174886 ...
June 163545 193727 ...
July 168689 222146 ...
August 174136 152520 ...
September 102033 120020 ...
October 108571 116157 ...
November 106860 102795 ...
December 90737 99130 ...
Totals 1447410 1703187 221436
Average number sold each month during 1910 ................141932
Average number sold each month during 1909 ................120617
Average monthly gain during 1910 over 1909 ................21298

Publications Wanted

The following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our publications, sent post-paid:—
Margaret Wright, 1517 Seventh St., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, papers and tracts.
Mattie H. Welch, Lynchburg, Va., papers and denominational books to start school library.
All literature sent heretofore to M. S. Hubbell, Box 180, Route 1, Fort Smith, Ark., should in the future be sent to Warden 215, First National Bank, Fort Smith, Ark. A continuous supply desired. (Other papers, please copy.)
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