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Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 56.

Joy for the Journey
Earlier text: The Best Diet for Man

A Question of “Rights”

“MOTHER, why can’t Polly help me fill the wood box this morning? You know I’m going to play Indian with the other fellows at nine, and it’s getting near nine now. Can’t she help me?”
“Mother, haven’t I got a right not to help him? I want to get the playhouse fixed up before Lulu comes over, and I can’t stop to bother with the wood!”
Mother’s pretty brown eyes looked down into two other pairs of brown eyes, both rather indignant and tearful.
“Why, yes, Polly,” she said, after a moment’s pause. “I suppose you have a right not to help Junior. The wood box is his work, and you’ve finished all your own morning chores.”
Polly’s brown little face mirrored a flash of self-satisfaction, while Junior’s gloomed visibly. Cousin Jane, who had been visiting mother since day before yesterday, sympathized with the lad, and wondered a little at mother.
“It seems to me,” mother went on reflectively, “that it isn’t exactly a question of rights. Suppose that yesterday, when Mr. Jones wanted father to help him get in that hay which the shower threatened to spoil, father had said, ‘No, I have all I can do at home.’ It would have been true enough.”
“It would have been awful mean,” pronounced Polly, emphatically. “There was nothing father’d just got to do for himself.”
“And yet he had a perfect right to refuse, if he wanted to do so,” said mother.
Polly’s face fell a little.
“You see,” went on mother, “father thought what he should like, if he were in Mr. Jones’s place—the golden rule, you know. So he went beyond his rights, to do a favor. Now, in this case, suppose you, Polly, wanted Junior to help you do the dishes so that you could get ready to go to ride with him and father. He would have a right to refuse, because washing dishes isn’t his work; but how would you feel about it—and him?”
A long, long pause: Presently Polly’s bent head lifted, and she whirled on her heel determinedly.
“Come on, Junior!” she cried.
“We’ve got to hurry!”
They clattered out of the sunny kitchen, and mother turned smilingly to Cousin Jane, whose expression was slightly disapproving.
“It seems to me,” said the latter, “that I never in my life heard so much about ‘rights’ from children as I have since I’ve been here. ‘I’ve a right to do this; you’ve no right to do that.’ It gets on my nerves, and I should think it would on yours, Kate.”
“Upon what better foundation can we build the structure of a child’s responsibility to himself and to society than that of his own rights and those of others?” queried mother.
“Yes, but you see how it works. It makes them disobliging. See the way Polly was going to do, when she ought to have wanted to help her brother!”
Mother’s smile broadened.
“It’s no use, Jane, for either of us to pretend that we were youthful angels when we were children. Do you remember that when you finished your ‘stint’ of apple paring or picking over beans at grandfather’s long before I did, you wouldn’t help me? Child nature is about the same, whether it shows itself in ourselves, as we look back, or in our children. The difference is, you didn’t voice your rights, and Polly did.”
“The only way a family in which there are children can preserve peace and order, is to insist upon the observance of one another’s rights—the right to have one’s own playthings, the right to one’s share of the goodies, the right not to be compelled to give up to the demands of the most selfish child because that is the easiest way to avoid trouble. This is the lesson of social accountability—a respect for the rights of others, whether friend or foe. Isn’t the home the best place to learn it?”
“But they harp so upon it!”
“Of course! They’ve come to recognize their rights and demand them, but they haven’t gone the step farther which teaches them to yield some of them when it is kind to do so. But they must have their rights before they can actually yield them. If I had simply forced Polly to help her brother, without the little talk we had, her sense of right would have been wounded, he would have felt that she ought to help him whenever he demanded it, and neither one would have recognized her compliance for what it really was—the gracious waiving of a right in order to do a favor. Now, I think, they do. Polly feels magnanimous, Junior realizes that it is to her, and not to me, that he owes the favor, and will be inclined to return it in kind, some day. Isn’t this really the better way, even if it is a bit the longer?”
Cousin Jane looked thoughtful.
“I do believe it is!” she admitted.—American Motherhood.

To My Mother

I do not build a monument Of carved white marble for your sake, That only those who pass may read, And only those memorial make.
My life must be the monument I consecrate in your behalf; My charity must carve your name, My gentleness your epitaph.
Above this record I engrave, No drooping figure there must be; Straight-shouldered Courage, starry-eyed, Must mark this scroll of destiny.
And may some fragment of your strength By God's great mystery fall on me, That through this monument of mine May shine your high nobility.
— Selected.

Home Life

By Mrs. I. H. Evans; Miss Lora E. Clement

Conducted by Mrs. I. H. Evans, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Assisted by Miss Lora E. Clement
Through the columns of this department, hints will be given on all matters pertaining to the home life. Short articles and letters are solicited from home makers, telling of their everyday experiences,—their joys and sorrows, their failures and successes.

A Cultured Woman

THE other day in the country I was visiting some friends who were living the simple life, and were rather “roughing it” for the summer. Such people always have a good time, because they bring the good time with them.
A young woman was visiting them, one who has traveled much, and who has seen considerable of the world in other countries; but if any girl ever “fitted in,” this girl did.
Although accustomed to all the good things of life, she was unspoiled; and her attitude toward those about her spoke louder than words as to the inside culture that was hers.
She could not be comfortable herself unless everybody around her was comfortable. She was cordial and gracious to strangers, and she made you feel at once that you had known her a long time.
Consideration is the fundamental principle of the kind of culture this girl has. Nothing seemed too much for her to do to give pleasure, and she seemed to get pleasure in doing it.
She is the kind of person you want to invite to your house, because you know she will be “no trouble.” She is the kind of person who has no foibles and fancies that she is always thrusting upon you. She takes things as they come, and meets them.
She does not make one feel her superiority, because of her advantages. She thinks meekly, and therefore will always grow.
She has a kindly attitude toward every one she meets, and immediately puts all at ease, whether housemaid or honored guest.
I could not help reflecting that here was genuine culture, not the kind that you spell with capital letters, and that you put on a pedestal, something you think you can never reach; but the real thing itself.
It is good to behold. I have seen it in many a young woman of poverty, and in many a lowly laborer. It is not a matter of society, but a matter of self; not a matter of book learning, but an appreciation of life. It need not be born, but it may be acquired by keeping in close touch with the golden rule.—Selected.

Good Neighbors

Good neighbors are very desirable wherever we go. The story is told of a man who was moving, and who stopped to inquire directions of a stranger. “And what kind of folks live in M?” he asked, finally.
“What kind of folks lived in the town you are leaving?” was the quick counter-question.
“Well, they were a mean lot, take them through and through,—a mean, stingy, ornery lot,” was the answer.
“That’s just the kind of folks that live in M, you’ll find,” said the stranger, and passed on.
And this is only another way of saying that if we wish to live among pleasant people and good neighbors, we must take pains that at least one person who lives at our house shall be a pleasant person and a good neighbor.
It costs to be a good neighbor—not only in lending things one would rather not lend, and taking time to be friendly and interested in the affairs of others when we would much rather contemplate our own, and preserving an unruffled brow in the face of the depredations of other people’s chickens and dogs and thumping boys and noisy girls. It costs time and effort and love. It costs planning and sharing and praying. It costs all the hard-won fruits of unselfishness.
But there are many acts of neighborliness that cost little. If your neighbor’s stock is seen by you in his fields of grain, tell him at once, or take time to drive them out. In this way you may win your neighbor. Visit your neighbors, tactfully talk with them upon religious subjects, give them religious literature, invite them to see you. Above all, pray for your neighbors, ever remembering that the more prayer there is in a neighborhood, the less likelihood there will be of gossip and unkindness.

A Double Dedication

By A. O. Tait

OCTOBER 4 and 7 were epoch-making dates in the progress of our foreign work in this country.
ON OCTOBER 4 the International Branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Association was dedicated at Brookfield, Ill. Elders R. A. Underwood, L. H. Christian, I. H. Evans, E. T. Russell, Charles Thompson, G. F. Haffner, S. Mortenson, P. E. Broderson, and other leading workers were present to participate in the various exercises.
Elder Evans made the principal address. He spoke of the millions of foreigners in this country, and of the urgent need of preparing message-filled literature in many different languages. He placed particular emphasis upon the point that Christianity, rightly understood, breaks down the barriers of race and nationality, and unites all in Jesus Christ. He also emphasized the fact that our various conference presidents owe the same debt of service to the foreigners within their borders that they do to those who speak English. All should seek for that divine grace that will set them free from racial prejudice.
Steen Rasmussen gave a very inspiring account of the progress of the message among the many nations represented in this land.
Brethren C. H. Jones and H. H. Hall reviewed the history of the work of the International Publishing Association, and explained why the institution had been located in a good new building in Brookfield, a beautiful suburb of the city of Chicago.
H. C. Childs, treasurer of the Pacific Press, made a financial report of the institution. Although it had cost more than $40,000 to build and equip the institution, the bills were all paid.
Elder E. T. Russell, after a few remarks concerning early experiences in the work of providing literature for the foreigners in this country, offered the dedicatory prayer.
Brother S. N. Curtiss has accepted the call to act as manager of the institution.
In a round table discussion in which many took part, it was agreed to recommend the bringing out of about seventy-four new tracts in fifteen different languages. “Bible Readings for the Home Circle” is to be translated into three additional languages.
When we contrast the extent of the work among the foreigners twenty or thirty years ago with what it is today, when a well-equipped publishing house is required to meet the growing demand for foreign literature, we see something of the rapid advancement of the message among all peoples.
But it is not alone in our publishing work that great progress is made. Our educational work is also developing with equal strength. It does not seem so long ago since we had but one college,—the one at Battle Creek, Mich. A little later Union College was established in Nebraska, with Swedish, Danish-Norwegian, and German departments. But soon this was outgrown; and to meet the demands of our advancing work it has become necessary to provide separate schools in this country for each of these nationalities.
In 1910 about eighty acres of land was purchased in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago, as a site for a Swedish Seventh-day Adventist seminary. This institution is about three miles from the International Publishing Branch, and but a few miles from the Hinsdale Sanitarium.
By making some changes in buildings already on the ground, Prof. G. E. Nord and his associates were able to open school in September, 1910. It was interesting to listen to the story of the struggles of those who labored to establish this important institution.
The large dwelling house on the estate was converted into rooms for the girls; an addition was built to provide more rooms and a chapel. Barns were converted into dormitories for the boys, recitation-rooms, and offices for the president and the bookkeeper.
But despite these meager facilities a good class of young people were attracted to the school, and it grew. One new building has been erected to provide a home for the faculty, but other buildings and improvements are greatly needed. An adequate water system should be provided, and there is also a crying need for a good up-to-date sewerage system. The growing patronage of the school makes these improvements an immediate and urgent necessity.
In starting this school some debt was incurred, but Elder Christian and others were strong in the belief that we should not contract such debts, and that the institution should not be dedicated to the Lord till all these obligations were met. So, although the school was started in 1910, it was not dedicated until Sabbath, Oct. 7, 1916.
The dedication was an important occasion for our Swedish brethren. Many of those who attended the dedication of the International Publishing Branch remained to attend the exercises at the seminary. Elders Svenson, Mortenson, Hoffman, and Anderson, as well as several workers from the Danish-Norwegian field, were present. The exercises began on Friday evening and lasted through the Sabbath and the following Sunday.
The dedicatory address was delivered by Elder Christian, president of the Lake Union Conference. His message impressed those present with the importance of pressing our educational work, so that our young men and women may be fittingly trained to give the world the message of Christ’s coming. He emphasized the fact that to avoid discouragement and hindrances we must keep our schools free from debt and on a sound financial basis. And most important of all, there must be a spiritual atmosphere that is surcharged with the strong impulses of our sublime and solemn message to the world. Following Elder Christian’s address, Elder S. F. Svenson offered the dedicatory prayer.
The school is making good use of its eighty acres of fine land. There is a good herd of cattle and a fine flock of well-kept hens. Vegetables and other products of garden, orchard, and field seemed, through the industry of the farmer, to be stored in abundance for the winter.
But the best part of it all is the fine class of earnest, active young men and women who are well started in their work in the school this year. It was an inspiration to observe their activities and to think that their sole purpose in life is to serve the great cause of the Master in this generation, and to prepare the world for the Lord’s coming. It is a great privilege and a pleasure to assist in supplying the needs of such a worthy institution as our Swedish school at Broadview, Ill. A. O. TAIT.

The Wyoming Camp Meeting

By W. W. Ruble

The Wyoming conference and camp meeting, held at Bridgeport, Nebr., received much of the blessing of the Lord. From the first there was manifested on the part of all a deep yearning for a closer walk with God; and the Saviour fulfilled the promise made to those hungering and thirsting after righteousness.
Each department of the work was represented and received its share of study, and plans were laid which will mean advancement in the work of this conference.
The workers present in addition to those connected with the Wyoming Conference were: Elders R. A. Underwood and J. H. McEachern, Profs. H. A. Morrison and C. L. Benson, and M. E. Ellis.
The ordination service was a very impressive one, when Brethren Paul Curtis and W. A. Long were set apart for the sacred work of the gospel ministry. A special sense of the obligation resting upon those set apart to this sacred work seemed to rest upon all present, and a renewal of consecration to the finishing of this great work in this generation was made.
The special consecration service the last Sabbath was marked by the deep movings of the Spirit of God. Sins were confessed and consecrations were made which we trust will result in a deeper work of grace upon the heart of each one present. Surely the Lord drew near to his people.
Sabbath afternoon fifteen persons were buried with their Lord in baptism. Ten of these were young people whose lives we trust will be spent in the work of carrying the saving message to a lost world in the last generation.
The attendance the first Sabbath at the Sabbath school was 97, and the donation was $93. The second Sabbath the attendance was 189, and the donation was $200. The total donations for missions were more than $1,000. The book sales amounted to more than $300.
The last day of the meeting a temperance rally was held. The people of the village took part in this meeting, and showed a real interest in the cause of temperance.
The present conference officers were chosen to serve the coming year: N. T. Sutton, president; Asa Smith, secretary-treasurer; F. C. Clark, field missionary secretary; J. M. Fletcher, Missionary Volunteer, educational, and Sabbath school secretary.
The executive committee is as follows: N. T. Sutton, Asa Smith, E. H. Curtis, H. A. Fish, and J. M. Fletcher.
The president’s address contained the following items of interest: Conference membership, 570; number of churches, 25; Sabbath school membership, 775; number of Sabbath schools, 42; Sabbath school donations, $2,390.13; church schools, 6, with an enrolment of 67; students in Union College, 24; Missionary Volunteer societies, 5, with a membership of 105; book sales (1915), $7,723, and for the first six months of 1916, $6,070; tithes (1915) $10,956.54, and for the first six months of 1916, $7,938.07—a gain of $2,545.70 over the first six months of 1915.
The Lord is certainly blessing the work in the Wyoming Conference.
W. W. Ruble.

The Upper Columbia Conference

By J. T. Boettcher

It has been my privilege to visit fifteen churches and to meet about sixteen hundred of our people in this conference. Although my stay was only from September 19 to October 2, a period of two weeks, we held twenty-seven meetings. Elder J. J. Nethery, president of the conference, had arranged such a splendid program that we never missed a train nor an automobile connection.
It made no difference whether we had an appointment in the forenoon, afternoon, or evening, we always found our people assembled at the place of meeting. It was harvest and threshing time,—the busiest season of the year,—but this did not keep any one from attending the services. Even strangers came in their working clothes to hear the message for this time. The Lord blessed in the presentation of the word.
The conference is wrestling with heavy problems, but a united effort will accomplish the desired end. The Lord has blessed our people with abundant crops, and has given their sons and daughters a willingness to assist in harvesting that which heaven has bestowed. We believe that they will in return remember God's cause, and help to their utmost ability.
The work in this conference is advancing. Personally, we enjoyed our work among the churches very much, and pray that God's choicest blessings may rest upon the workers and the churches.
J. T. Boettcher.

The Florida Camp Meeting

By John L. Shaw

The Florida camp meeting was held at St. Petersburg, a city of 12,000 people, located midway of the State, on Tampa Bay. The grounds were well selected, being conveniently located in Woods Park. Sixty tents were pitched, and some found rooms in surrounding houses. The evening meetings were well attended by people from the city, and the attitude of the press was very favorable.
The Spirit of God was present in the meetings. There was a general turning to the Lord on the part of all, both old and young. Some who were cold and indifferent gained definite victories. The idea of personal service for the Master was strongly emphasized, and met with a good response.
The report of the conference president, Elder W. H. Heckman, was encouraging. A spirit of unity pervaded the business proceedings. Those receiving baptism in 1915 numbered one hundred and eighty-six. Five new churches, three white and two colored, were received into the conference. Although business interests in the State have been dull during the past year, affecting some of our people seriously, the tithe for 1915 exceeded the tithe of the previous year to the amount of $733.52. The Florida Conference carries a good record on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. The amount over for the previous year was $1,340.96.
The response to the calls for mission offerings was liberal. Unconditional offerings, including both cash and pledges, for foreign missions amounted to over $3,000, besides about $2,000 conditional. Approximately $2,000 in cash and pledges was donated to the new training school at Ooltewah, Tenn.
Special attention was given to the Harvest Ingathering campaign, and a portion of one afternoon was spent in house-to-house solicitation. Many interesting and helpful experiences were the result.
A colored camp meeting was held in St. Petersburg during the same time that the white camp meeting was in session. One hundred and twenty of our people were in attendance. The evening services were especially well attended by those not of our faith, and good attention was shown. In addition to the local conference laborers, F. W. Paap, W. H. Branson, C. B. Stephenson, B. M. Heald, and the writer were present, and shared in the burdens and blessings of the meeting. Elder Heckman was reelected president of the conference for the ensuing two years.
The workers in the conference are of good courage. The outlook for the work the coming year is excellent. At the close of the meeting both workers and church members expressed themselves as determined to work with still greater zeal and determination to make known the truth to others.
J. L. SHAW.

D. A. EASTON

By D. A. Easton

Missouri

MARCELINE.—I am an old man, seventy-four years of age, and am poor in this world's goods, but I thought a report of my efforts in missionary work might encourage some prosperous younger person to engage in similar labor.
A GROUP OF INTERESTED READERS FOR WHOM BROTHER EASTON IS LABORING
A GROUP OF INTERESTED READERS FOR WHOM BROTHER EASTON IS LABORING
In starting my work I first secured ten of our good denominational books, and subscribed for small clubs of the Instructor and Little Friend. Visiting from house to house, I found those who were interested in the meaning of present-day conditions. With such persons, who were willing to read, I left one book for two weeks, then returned for it, and left another. Many wished to study further into different religious questions, especially those relating to the prophecies.
I made a portable blackboard, and a brother and sister, who are well informed on history and Bible topics, take turns going out with me, giving prophetic lectures in the evening. We have an interest in three towns, and more than one hundred and twenty-five persons are studying with us. I use the papers in working for the children. They are always eager to get them, and I could use many more. I could also use more papers in my house-to-house work for the older people than I am able to provide.
The people are hungry for the word of life. While I am old, unlearned, and, like Moses, slow of speech, yet I am so glad the Lord has opened the way for me to do some work in preparing the hearts of the people for the reception of the third angel's message.
I ask the prayers of God's people for the success of this work. The harvest surely is ripe. We praise God for past blessings, and pray that he may bless us more abundantly in the future.

D. A. EASTON

Hope After Adversity

“The most glorious sunset sometimes follows the severest storm. Under the shadows and gloom of adversity, therefore, never despair.”

Colporteurs’ Summary for September, 1916

UNIONS AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
ATLANTIC
Maine 5 138 $198.50 $461.85 756 $75.60 $248.80
N. New England 10 449 602.10 200.45 755 75.50 51.90
Massachusetts 11 571.70 710.45 3590 359.00 355.90
S. New England 8 401 484.30 180.80 665 66.50 289.40
New York 6 557 640.90 879.30 756 75.60 249.70
W. New York 8 385 241.25 396.55 100 10.00 196.80
G. New York 11 478 442.85 553.05 3260 326.00 438.90
Totals 59 2408 3181.60 3382.45 9882 988.20 1831.40
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
CENTRAL
Colorado 5 423 542.25 730.30 175 17.50 92.70
Kansas 7 1022 897.40 1514.50 695 69.50 89.90
Missouri 12 1572 1685.00 1077.15 435 43.50 109.80
Nebraska 6 936 1343.00 1240.30 300 30.00 22.50
Wyoming 4 136 304.50 289.00 60 6.00 10.00
Totals 34 4089 4772.15 4851.25 1665 166.50 324.90
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
COLUMBIA
Ohio 21 2031 1599.85 2120.85 3510 351.00 976.80
Virginia 9 700 800.00 881.50 1425 143.50 198.00
Chesapeake 7 748 960.20 1082.75 370 37.00 73.20
W. Pennsylvania 16 996 1067.85 1379.15 1260 126.00 139.10
Dist. of Columbia 3 136 501.90 309.10 1415 141.50 53.20
W. Virginia 9 546 276.90 980.30 315 31.50 52.80
E. Pennsylvania 8 717 930.20 669.25 4140 414.00 441.90
New Jersey 6 436 583.92 284.20 1460 146.00 172.80
Totals 79 6310 6720.82 7707.10 13895 1389.50 2107.80
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
LAKE UNION
Indiana 13 944 774.35 1408.25 575 57.50 65.10
S. Illinois 21 1826 1881.20 853.00 325 32.50 121.70
N. Illinois 6 761 663.41 689.84 100 10.00 152.20
S. Wisconsin 10 663 386.60 1081 108.10
N. Wisconsin 10 517 413.60 333.80 262 26.20 181.50
N. Michigan 8 309 110.05 132.60 731 73.10 52.60
W. Michigan 9 490 357.95 587.35 7937 793.70 72.50
E. Michigan 24 1013 585.05 1243.40 5835 583.50 212.60
Totals 101 6523 5172.21 5248.24 16846 1684.60 858.20
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
EASTERN CANADIAN
Ontario 3 342.30 1120 112.00 314.20
Quebec 4 311.25 60 6.00 19.50
Maritime 1 75.00 200 20.00 15.00
Newfoundland 600 60.00
Totals 8 728.55 1980 198.00 348.70
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
SOUTHERN
Mississippi 10 431 780.35 285 28.50 100.40
Kentucky 14 1386 1364.45 2381.50 387 38.70 38.40
Alabama 16 969 774.75 627.65 1066 106.60 63.50
Tennessee River 8 679 829.35 1440.10 1505 150.50 157.40
Louisiana 13 961 1500.80 453.25 550 55.00 27.50
Totals 61 4426 5249.70 4902.50 3793 379.30 387.20
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
SOUTHEASTERN
Cumberland 10 958 748.00 1935.18 655 65.50 55.50
Florida 282.45 741 74.10 84.50
Georgia 12 1034 1458.05 1315.00 728 72.80 48.20
North Carolina 13 1473 1692.40 2236.15 1523 152.30 199.00
South Carolina 8 969 1471.10 670.80 1760 176.00 51.40
Totals 43 4434 5169.55 6439.58 5407 540.70 438.60
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
SOUTHWESTERN
S. Texas 19 1402 145.65 635.10 150 15.00 40.20
N. Texas 29 1857 1092.50 428.00 237 23.70 153.70
Oklahoma 20 1016 2570.50 1052.20 1276 127.60 61.10
Arkansas 17 1097 1050.55 184.75 860 86.00 45.70
W. Texas 17 728 372.55 500.85 725 72.50 5.50
New Mexico 5 186 391.55 322.40 433 43.30 .10
Totals 107 6286 5623.30 3123.30 3681 368.10 306.30
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
NORTHERN
North Dakota 908.00 801 80.10 111.60
South Dakota 4 165 189.50 427.25 140 14.00 32.30
Iowa 6 552 888.65 529.85 3100 310.00 313.80
Minnesota 6 466 451.80 1140.73 3056 305.60 533.50
Totals 16 1183 1529.95 3005.83 7097 709.70 991.20
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
PACIFIC
Arizona 1 116 $367.50 625 $62.50 $5.00
California 3 168 202.00 $361.20 2225 222.50 357.20
N. W. California 4 350 519.35
Central California 4 60 234.45 277.65 60 6.00 55.10
N. California 6 360 480.10 662.90 170 17.00 29.50
S. California 3 287 534.60 1106 110.60 129.10
S. E. California 3 302 365.85 1530.75
Inter-Mt. 5 487 634.10 672.02 100 10.00 18.90
Totals 29 2130 3337.95 3504.52 4286 428.60 594.80
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
NORTH PACIFIC
W. Washington 4 175 292.70 1261 126.10 218.60
W. Oregon 300 30.00 77.70
Upper Columbia 3 159 267.25 50 5.00 12.60
S. Idaho 4 218 274.00 238 23.80 51.40
S. Oregon 217 21.70 6.60
Montana 25 2.50 55.20
Totals 11 552 833.95 2091 209.10 422.10
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
WESTERN CANADIAN
Alberta 6 1368 1246.30 225.75 152 15.20 16.70
Manitoba 6 1060 1003.40 350.00 932 91.20 83.50
British Columbia 3 556 575.10 386.05 555 55.50 201.50
Saskatchewan 8 1132 1858.90 844.50 1456 145.60 79.70
Totals 23 4116 4683.70 1916.30 3095 309.50 381.40
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
Foreign and Miscellaneous 7078 707.80 271.10
Subscription List 31037 3103.70 3282.80
AGTS. HRS. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915 NO. COP. VALUE 1916 VALUE 1915
FOREIGN UNION CONFERENCES AND MISSIONS
Australasian 90 8043 9755.48 9295.92 4681 1034.98 1755.23
British 26 1067 660.95 97868 1985.91
Scandinavian 133 25299 17930.48 13889.23 25515 1664.06 282.41
Latin 11 1031 672.35 281.70 4306 154.01 149.79
East German 62 6323 2526.71 2100.40 73729 2056.70 1542.36
West German 60 6322 2820.85 1982.92 85731 2011.36 1787.51
Danube 11 1707 495.98 168.68 962 25.14
Cen. European 53 5550 2611.62 1502.72 22780 813.83 1488.10
Canary Islands 1 88 15.21 30.78 19 .34
South African 24 1277 2782.44 725.16 1278 81.46 87.06
India 5 296 545.12 7040 180.14
Korean 18.29 27.96 4436 110.90 62.52
Japan 288 18.59 192.81 4272 179.53 309.31
Philippine 27 326 947.41 298.87 48.32
Hawaiian 2 217 821.35 500 45.00
Guatemala 1 158 187.76
Salvador 1 126 171.00 50 3.25
N. Honduras 103.29
Jamaica 108.25 180.00
Porto Rican 6 512 814.89 512.70
Cuban 10 463 965.95 720.00 2.60
Colombia 1 120 63.75
Brazilian 26 2670 1527.37 920.90
Austral Union 26 1585 2341.11 1524.63 44.72 153.30
Totals, foreign 576 63468 48797.95 34283.63 333167 10391.33 7848.51
Totals, N. Am. 571 42457 47203.43 44081.07 111833 11183.30 13046.50
Grand Totals 1147 105925 $96001.38 $78364.70 443000 $21574.63 $20895.01

Comparative Book Summary

1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916
Jan. $44,495.65 $53,931.97 $64,262.88 $59,697.52 $46,778.58 $60,418.25
Feb. 53,923.57 53,525.18 62,813.12 67,149.45 47,943.61 74,298.80
March 73,015.56 73,374.99 66,640.42 75,962.31 73,414.23 92,431.51
April 73,548.31 73,027.32 73,520.45 85,685.35 78,974.96 94,066.35
May 81,923.78 94,166.15 101,640.01 87,024.10 107,987.69 106,602.30
June 135,888.76 137,838.38 137,373.06 153,480.96 151,199.10 174,415.86
July 127,256.86 156,166.90 140,576.24 199,116.62 170,546.02 192,033.15
Aug. 91,810.46 103,165.69 111,660.64 105,391.65 118,773.18 143,185.26
Sept. 86,001.72 67,551.70 73,732.14 74,359.96 78,364.70 96,001.38
Oct. 81,367.89 70,219.70 84,015.90 60,357.25 76,102.53
Nov. 67,600.00 77,424.87 73,940.68 57,388.95 69,660.16
Dec. 58,386.24 57,291.91 59,749.92 57,496.17 69,145.88
Totals $976,218.80 $1017,684.13 $1049,943.46 $1083,110.29 $1088,890.64

Comparative Summary of American Periodicals

1914 1915 1916 1914 1915 1916
Jan.* 152971 170760 177107 July 211040
Feb. 242627 134619 222470 Aug. 171451
March 224757 341059 154019 Sept. 164860
April 162027 183280 98217 Oct. 174182
May 168934 158114 117917 Nov. 142040
June 189897 159635 154701 Dec. 143190
Totals 2147976
* Multiply number of magazines in any month by ten cents to get value.
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