Chapter 19—Book Sales and Illustrations
Sale of Books and Periodicals Urged—Remind our people often
of the work that may be done by the sale of our books and the dis-
tribution of tracts. Encourage them to sell the periodicals containing
the message for this time. Our large books can be sold in Washington
and other cities in the East if the canvassers will take up the work
courageously.—
Letter 21, 1905
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Message Books to Be Translated Into All Languages—The
books containing the reasons of our faith must be translated into all
languages. This work must make more rapid progress than it has
made.—
Letter 106, 1903
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The Stories of the Bible—Our heavenly Father, in giving His
word, did not overlook the children. In all that men have written,
where can be found anything that has such a hold upon the heart,
anything so well adapted to awaken the interest of the little ones, as
the stories of the Bible?
In these simple stories may be made plain the great principles
of the law of God. Thus by illustrations best suited to the child’s
comprehension, parents and teachers may begin very early to fulfill
the Lord’s injunction concerning His precepts: “Thou shalt teach them
diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up.”
Deuteronomy 6:7
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The use of object lessons, blackboards, maps, and pictures, will
be an aid in explaining these lessons, and fixing them in the memory.
Parents and teachers should constantly seek for improved methods.
The teaching of the Bible should have our freshest thought, our best
methods, and our most earnest effort.—
Education, 185, 186
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Valuable Books, Not Many Storybooks—The small storybooks
that are being handled by our people—what are they? Many of them
contain nothing of more value than can be obtained in any bookstore.
We have books of great value, which should be recommended to the
people; but it pains me to see our papers recommending and our people
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