p. 22 | Our Relatives and Friends by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1916

Our Relatives and Friends

By Editor

THE first order reaching the publishers for Present Truth Series to be sent to relatives and friends for six months, from Sept. 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917, was sent under date of June 19, by Mrs. C. A. Newton, Holland, Ohio. The order was for twenty subscriptions, and reads as follows:—

“I read in the Review of June 22 that twenty-four cents would carry to one person one full set of twenty-four issues of the Present Truth Series, one copy mailed each week for six months. I usually pass our good literature along, in an effort to help spread the message. I am inclosing $4.80 with twenty-four names and addresses of persons who I think will read the papers.”

This first order received in this world-wide effort for our relatives and friends, beginning Sept. 1, 1916, and ending March 1, 1917, is, we trust, an index or sample of what every member, the world over, will do for his relatives and friends in this special concerted effort. The plan seems to appeal to all who know about it, and many have thus early said they would make up a large list before September 1. It is best, however, to do as Sister Newton, of Ohio, has done,—get right at it and send the list at once.

The plan is for all who have nonbelieving relatives and friends for whom they wish to do good work in presenting the message, to send them a complete set of the Present Truth Series, beginning with No. 1 and continuing to No. 24, one number to be sent, by the publishers, each week until the entire series is covered. Sending one copy each week, the series will be covered in six months. The cost will be only 24 cents for the set of 24 numbers, to be mailed, postpaid, each week for six months. This means that our relatives and friends will receive regularly each week a copy of the Present Truth Series, giving the message in the order best suited to the subjects, and in a way well calculated to prevent confusion and lead to conviction—24 strong presentations on as many of the fundamental topics of the message, or 96 large pages sparkling with the brightest message gems in print, for only 24 cents. We know of no better or cheaper way to reach this very dear class of people.

This special effort in behalf of our friends and relatives will be made simultaneously the world over, beginning September 1, this year, 1916, and ending March 1, 1917. Between now and September 1, all names and addresses should be sent in, through the tract societies, ready to begin promptly on September 1, it being very necessary to begin mailing all subscriptions at one time, and to receive no new names after that date. The effort for our friends and relatives is to be without variation, and limited to the time specified,—September 1 to March 1,—not a name to be added after September 1, and no exceptions of any kind to be made in connection with any name. It is to be a straight and regular mailing of one copy of the Present Truth Series each week to each name on the list for six months.

Through this special plan for relatives and friends we may know just what they are reading as the weeks pass. We may write to them on the subjects we know they are studying in the papers, and we may pray especially for them individually as they come to the most important subjects; and the churches may pray for them collectively, and for the special effort being made in behalf of the dearest of all in the world to our people. This plan, faithfully worked, will bring great rejoicing to thousands of our members through relatives and friends’ accepting the truth, and the blessing of heaven will be bestowed upon those taking part in it.

There will be another list started Jan. 1, 1917, which may include subscriptions, either single or in clubs, for general missionary purposes. This list will be mailed once a month, or as often as the paper is published, and will be for the new series which will begin Jan. 1, 1917. Orders for this list should be sent in at least two months previously to the beginning of the list, or by Nov. 1, 1916.

Send all orders through the tract societies for this special effort for relatives and friends, to Present Truth Series, September list. Send all orders for the new regular list, through the tract societies, to Present Truth, January-list, 1917.