Understanding Subscription Labels
By Editor
Some of our subscribers do not yet seem to understand the figures on the pasters, or direction labels, on their papers, and ask for explanation. We will try to make the matter so plain that all can understand. In the first place in our credits, we go by volume and number, instead of by dates. For instance, we are now in volume thirty of Review, and last week's paper was No. 1 of the volume. Its date was June 18, 1867. Now suppose a person had paid a year ago up to that point; his credit would have stood, not June 18, 1867, but 30-1, meaning that he had paid up to volume 30, number 1. We choose to keep credits by volume and number rather than by dates, because it is sometimes necessary, as at the time of the last Conference, to omit the paper for one week. In such case if we gave credit by dates we should be obliged to go through our entire list, and place our credits ahead one week, or our subscribers would get one paper less than they had paid for. Reckoning by volume and number the accounts are not affected. On the first page of this paper, immediately under the heading, in the same line with the date will be seen at the left, the words, “Vol. xxx,” at the right, “No. 2.” Our next issue will be No. 3, and so on to No. 26, when the volume will be changed to xxxi, and the numbering commenced with 1 again. Compare the figures on your pasters with these figures on the paper, and it will show just how you stand. Thus, if your paster contains the figures 29-1, it shows that you have paid only to Vol. xxix, No. 1, and are consequently one volume in arrears. If it says, 30-1, you are paid to the commencement of the present volume, and the advance pay for another year is now due. If it says, 31-1, you are a volume in advance, and so on. We trust this is so plain that all will now understand.