A Call for Five-Dollar Subscribers
By John McMillan
BRO. SMITH: It is with pleasure that I redeem my pledge to pay $5.00 per year for the Review, on the condition that there be a sermon in every number. Six months have nearly passed without a failure, and I consider it a settled fact. But it is in this as in all of God's favors to me; I have received more than I asked or expected. The Review has been enlarged one-half, and is to be enlarged to double its original size, and to me four times its former value. And I have no doubt it will then be the best and the cheapest paper in the world, taking truth as a basis of value. I would again, with your permission, ask, Are there not five hundred subscribers that would consider it a privilege to pay $5.00 a year for such a paper to enable its conductors to send it to the worthy poor, and that the gospel may be preached to the lonely ones who never hear the living preacher? Remember this is making no sacrifice. Each one of these can dispense with a secular paper, which will more than make up the difference; and then they will have the pleasure of doing something for the advancement of the gospel. Hoping to see a new list of $5.00 subscribers, I remain your afflicted, yet rejoicing, brother.