A Note From the Field

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 24, 1903

A Note From the Field

IN response to the invitation extended to the workers in the field to assist the publishers in their efforts to increase the circulation of this paper, Elder William Covert, of Wisconsin, writes as follows:—

I am very much in favor of enlarging the circulation of the REVIEW AND HERALD, and know that there are very many of our people who do not take this good paper. When I have talked with them about it, they usually speak of the cost, but I presume that the greater difficulty is the want of interest. Years ago when companies were raised up, the ministers who did the work were quite anxious to have every family take the REVIEW AND HERALD, and they worked hard to bring this about. In those times almost all our people took the denominational paper. . . . I do not believe that any of our publications, or all of them together, could take the place of the REVIEW AND HERALD. . . .

I have been reading the REVIEW AND HERALD for about thirty-five years, and scarcely an issue has come from the press that I have not perused, and of course I could not afford to do without this good paper. I endeavor to impress our people with its great value, and shall continue to do this. . . .

I will co-operate with the management of the REVIEW AND HERALD to the best of my ability in getting every family in the conference where I labor to subscribe for the paper. It does keep its readers in touch with the advancing work as no other paper can possibly do. The very nature of its reports is such that every Seventh-day Adventist in the world should have this paper all the time. I know they are losing a great deal of that which the Lord desires them to have by not taking the paper.

We greatly appreciate the hearty spirit of co-operation shown in this letter, and ask our laborers and our people generally to give its statements careful consideration.