Untitled article by A. S. HUTCHINS

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 15, 1867

FromThe Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 18

SCATTER THE PUBLICATIONS.

By A. S. HUTCHINS

How this sentence rings in my ears! And to it my heart responds, Amen; for it seems to me that we must awake to our duty on this important subject. And if we do, we shall act immediately. Time is short, and souls are precious. Testimony No. 12 speaks to the point in this matter: “There are many honest souls who would be brought where they would embrace the truth by this means.”

Let us think of this, dear brethren and sisters, and ask ourselves the question, What would I not give for the salvation of one soul? Yet one dollar appropriated to this worthy object may, with the blessing of God, save some friend from the second death. The Lord speaks; let us hear and obey.

Bro. Amadon informs us in Review No. 16 that “about $75.00 will print and make ready for market 4,000 sixteen-page tracts,” or double that number of eight-page tracts, and so on. Now who will be one of seventy-five to raise $75.00 for this object? Who one of seventy-five to raise $150.00? Who one of the same number to raise five or ten times this amount, if needed? Or who will give from a ten-cent scrip to one dollar for the tract fund, that these publications may be placed in the hands of devoted, consistent, pious men and women who fear God, and by them given to those whom it may seem they would benefit?

I believe we have brethren and sisters who would seek to act with reference to the glory of God in the distribution of our publications. This is the class which the apostle addresses in Gal. vi, 1. “Ye which are spiritual,” have a work to do here.

A. S. HUTCHINS.

Health Institute, Battle Creek, Oct. 9, 1867.