The Installment Plan by James White

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 10, 1877

The Installment Plan.

By James White

THE plan of ordering clubs of the SIGNS, and paying for them in installments, is proving a perfect success. The best method of doing this business should be at once adopted.

At this Office it causes much work and perplexity to do this installment business with individuals. We therefore suggest that it all be done through the different T. and M. societies.

A number of the State societies have already adopted the following plan: At this Office all installment clubs are charged to the State society from which received. By the State society it should be charged in the proper manner to the individuals receiving the packages.

The benefits of this plan are obvious. Instead of the Office doing this business with hundreds of individuals, it is done through one person in each State. And instead of our being obliged to see that the full plan indicated by the installment system (the payment of a certain sum each month) is carried out hundreds and thousands of miles away, this work is divided among the State and district officers throughout the whole tract and missionary field.

These individuals pay to the Tract Society the money as fast as the installments become due. By the State Secretary, money should be forwarded to this Office, perhaps quarterly, or monthly if much business of this kind is done.

The great benefit to be derived by individuals is that with this method clubs of any number may be ordered through the State Secretary, while from this Office individuals cannot order direct in clubs of less than eight. J. W.