 In 1910 the secular journal "Overland Monthly" calculated that by 1909, Russell's writings had become the most widely distributed, privately produced English-language works in the United States.It said that the entire corpus of his works were the third most circulated on earth, after the Bible and the Chinese Almanac.In 1912 "The Continent", a Presbyterian journal, stated that in North America Russell's writings had achieved a greater circulation "than the combined circulation of the writings of all the priests and preachers in North America."