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The Publishing Ministry
Cooperation in Magazine Circulation—The question has been
asked, Should the Watchman occupy territory outside of the Southern
States? One night I seemed to be in a meeting where this question was
being discussed. Some argued that it would not be wise for an effort
to be made to push the circulation of the Watchman in all parts of the
field. They said that the Review and Herald and the Signs of the Times
should be given the right of way, and that the Watchman should not
be allowed to interfere with the circulation of these two papers which
have been so long in the field. They thought that our work with the
Watchman should be confined to the Southern States.
Some were greatly astonished at these propositions. One of au-
thority arose and said, The Lord God of Israel sees the selfishness of
the human heart. Let those who are interested in our two older papers
beware of allowing selfish plans to find a place in their work. The
Watchman is to have a place in the field at large. It bears the message
of truth as verily as do the Review and the Signs of the Times. You are
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to be careful not to hinder the Watchman in its work....
Let those who have had success in the circulation of the Signs and
Review remember that the Watchman also has a work to do. It will
accomplish much good if it is given an opportunity to do its appointed
work in all parts of the world. Its field is wherever subscribers can be
found for it. [
Watchman Magazine has been published under one name
or another since 1891. In 1946, the name was changed to Our Times.
And in May, 1951, to These Times. At the present time These Times is
advertised and distributed around the world.
]—SpT, Misc. 89-91.
“I Cannot Afford Our Church Papers”—There are those who
profess to be brethren who do not take the Review, Signs, Instructor, or
Good Health, but take one or more secular papers. Their children are
deeply interested in reading the fictitious tales and love stories which
are found in these papers, and which their father can afford to pay for,
although claiming that he cannot afford to pay for our periodicals and
publications on present truth....
Parents should guard their children and teach them to cultivate
a pure imagination and to shun, as they would a leper, the lovesick
pen pictures presented in newspapers. Let publications upon moral
and religious subjects be found on your tables and in your libraries,
that your children may cultivate a taste for elevated reading.—
The
Adventist Home, 415, 416
.