Liberty by M. Macintosh

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 28, 1907

Liberty

By M. Macintosh

I AM in receipt of a letter from Washington regarding the circulation of the magazine, Liberty. Brother Colcord states that this journal is to be increased in size and in retail price, but that the Review and Herald Publishing Association has decided not to raise the subscription price, nor the price when supplied by conferences or local missionary societies to legislators or other important classes of individuals. While it will be a forty-eight-page magazine, and will sell at ten cents a copy, the subscription price will remain at twenty-five cents a year, and when furnished to legislators, only fifteen cents per annum will be charged.

At our camp-meeting in Denver we voted to send the magazine to legislators and district judges, and I am informed that it is now going to those individuals. In some conferences, however, the churches have taken the matter up and are sending the journal to all the influential men in their territory. It seems to me that this is one splendid way in which to meet the issue before us. Think of it! Any church can select one hundred of the most prominent men in the neighborhood, and send them the truth on this great question of religious liberty for the paltry sum of fifteen dollars.

We have been called of God to enlighten the world on this great question. No man can preach the third angel’s message without explaining where Caesar’s authority ends and where God’s begins. Many who learn these principles to-day will undoubtedly be used of God to assist us in the conflict that is closing in upon us. Then let us rally round the blood-stained banner of Immanuel, and show by our actions that we appreciate the liberty so dearly bought for us.

Again, there are many scores among us, old and young, who can take a forty-eight-page magazine on liberty and sell it readily at ten cents a copy, thus spreading the truth and making good wages at the same time. Many who can not successfully handle our large books can take up this work and make a grand success. This is pre-eminently a magazine age, and when so many are looking for something new, the simple title of the journal will sell it, especially now that the National Reformers are spreading their literature, and the strife between the classes is the topic everywhere.

Permit me to mention briefly one other plan; namely, the taking of subscriptions. Who could not take a copy of the journal and get subscriptions for it at the rate of twenty-five cents per annum? Who could not get twenty-five subscriptions between now and Christmas? Think of it, brethren, fifty thousand readers of Liberty in Colorado not simply a possibility—but easy! Who will send in the first list of names?—M. Macintosh, in Echoes from the Field (Colorado).