p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 11. (3/18/1909)

Life and Health for March

By Editor

Life and Health for March is now being mailed. It is replete with timely instruction on health and medical topics, by some of our best medical writers. All should have a part in the circulation of this valuable number.

Large Orders for Three Periodicals

ONE day's mail last week brought orders for a total of 7,560 copies of the March number of Life and Health, the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor, and the current number of Liberty. We should be glad to have this amount of business duplicated six days in every week.

The Watchman’s Increasing Circulation

By Editor

WE are gratified to learn that the circulation of the February Watchman reached twenty-five thousand copies. A still larger edition of the March number has been printed, to meet the increasing demand. The March issue is a very commendable number, and we hope it may have the extensive sale which its merit demands.

Return of a Missionary Worker

By Editor

We are glad to learn that Brother P. N. Lindegren, of the Abyssinian Mission, who had been detained at Beirut, Syria, by sickness for four months, was able to return to his field, sailing January 30. All the workers at Beirut have had a serious time with the fever, but we thank God for the recovery of all. The missionary advance means a call to endure hardness at many a point.

A Wireless Message from Baltimore

ONE of our agents for Liberty, who was working in Baltimore the day before the presidential inauguration, found himself cut off from communication with this Office by the severe blizzard of the night of March 3. Trains were blocked, and telegraph wires were down; but he promptly sent us a wireless message, thus easily accomplishing the end desired, in spite of difficulties. Thus do modern inventions aid in carrying the message of truth.

Demand for the Temperance Number

By Editor

Up to the present time orders have been received for over forty thousand copies of the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor, and every mail adds hundreds and thousands. The first edition printed was fifty-five thousand, and another edition will be printed at once. Our people appreciate the value of this special issue, and are doing splendid work in circulating it. Those who have not ordered should do so at once. This paper can be sold for an indefinite period.

Nurses Arrive Safely in Buenos Aires

A POSTAL card reports the safe arrival of the party of five nurses in Buenos Aires, January 30, all of good courage. We trust their work may develop ways of service that will lead many others to follow on into South America.

Dr. Selmon Returns from China

THE long journey from China to Washington was completed by Dr. A. C. Selmon and family last week, and they are now at the Foreign Mission Seminary, where Dr. Selmon will give instruction in the Chinese language and in tropical diseases, for the remainder of the school year. We extend a cordial welcome to these workers, and hope that their furlough, after six years of earnest and trying service, may prove a great blessing both to them personally and to their work in China.

Selling the Temperance Number

By Editor

OVER half of the first edition of fifty-five thousand copies of the Temperance number of the Youth's Instructor were ordered within a week of its appearance. Orders for five hundred to one thousand copies are received almost daily. Thursday of last week we received a telegram ordering two thousand copies. Inasmuch as this issue is so planned that it will sell the entire year, you need not be afraid to order in heavy quantities. One thousand copies will cost you but thirty dollars. In order to get your money back, you need to sell only three hundred copies at the regular price. If you sell the other seven hundred copies, you clear seventy dollars. If you want to give them away, you lose nothing. You would better sell them, however, as free literature is never appreciated as much as that which is purchased.

A New Religious Magazine

By Editor

OUR decision to begin the publication of another magazine, full particulars of which are given on the second page, was reached after very careful study of the present situation. During the past year there have been important developments in the religious world, which clearly indicate that we are fast approaching the crisis foretold in prophecy, and which for many years we have known was coming. With the decay of Protestantism, and the aggressive movements for the extension of the power of the Roman Catholic Church, there is emphasized the demand that those who know the significance of these changes should make it known to the people, and should sound the warning in no uncertain tones. This new magazine is not designed to be a medium through which an attack shall be made upon any body of people, but rather an effective channel for the dissemination of vital truths. It will treat Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, both doctrinally and historically, with greater fulness than is possible in any of our existing publications, and will expound, both doctrinally and historically, the message against the beast and his image, with greater emphasis than is practicable in our present publications. We also hope by this means to reach a class of persons who would not be interested to read a magazine dealing with general religious topics. We ask all our readers to study the announcement on the second page, and to act promptly, as we desire to secure a good paid-up list as a basis for obtaining second-class entry for the new magazine.