THE WEEKLY INSTRUCTOR

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

THE WEEKLY INSTRUCTOR.

The success of the weekly Instructor, although far below what it should be, and what we expected, is quite encouraging. It has at the present time about 3,000 subscribers, and still the number of subscribers for the monthly is but slightly diminished. There are probably 8,000 children in S. D. Adventist families, and these should have at least 6,000 Instructors.

The Lessons make them of indispensable value to every family and Sabbath-school. The Instructor contains Lessons for all grades of scholars except the very little ones, the Lessons for Bible Classes being issued as a supplement once a month.

Valuable articles on Sabbath-school work are now issued in the Instructor, and these lose half their effect if only half of our Sabbath-schools read them.

Eight numbers of the Instructor have been printed, and it is sad to think that over half of our schools will be eight lessons behind.

If you are convinced that your school needs the Instructor, subscribe at once, if you can pay for only three months in advance.

The number of Instructors taken in the various Conferences are as follows:—

Conferences.	No. in Clubs.	Scattering.
New England	118	103
New York	60	100
Ohio	105	52
Indiana	87	57
Illinois	31	34
Wisconsin	83	92
Iowa	119	117
Michigan	541	180
Minnesota	101	61
Kansas	12	48
Missouri	20	19
Nebraska	6	28
Kentucky	2	19
Virginia	12	2
Texas	90	7
Other States	32	44
California	396	55
Nevada	37	5
North Pacific	61	16
Total	1,913	1,039