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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1876

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 2, No. 25.

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What Shall Be Done?

By W. C. White

We are sending the SIGNS to fifteen hundred persons who owe us for six months' subscription. Some of these were subscribed for by friends, who expected that at the expiration of the subscription, the paper would be stopped. Many others prize the paper and could pay as well as not, and intend to as soon as it is convenient. While still others are represented by the writer of the following:—
“EDITOR SIGNS: Dear Brethren, I address you a few lines to thank you for continuing to send us the SIGNS. We have hoped from time to time that we should get the money to send, but we have been disappointed. Money at present is scarce. If you will be so good as to have faith in us we will send the money as soon as possible.
“I cannot tell you how we prize our excellent paper. We have expected from week to week that we would miss it, and have felt that we could hardly know how to spare it.
“There are no Sabbath-keepers here but ourselves, and we sorely need refreshing from the Lord. We hope and pray that the Lord may direct some of his messengers to this land of darkness.
“May the Lord bless and encourage your hearts as you labor in the great work of warning the world.”
What shall be done that we may continue the SIGNS to several hundred like the writer of the above letter, who need the paper but cannot pay for it at present? And what shall be done that we may no longer send it to some who do not read it and do not wish to receive it longer?
First. Let all those who do not want the paper or do not think it worth the money, write to us at once that we may stop a needless expense. Those who have sent it to friends should find out if it is being read, and if not, they should notify us of the fact with orders to stop it or send it to some other person.
Secondly. Let those who have the ready cash, pay up, if in arrears, and let all who can subscribe one or two years in advance. This would give us means to send the paper three or six months to those who are waiting for harvest, or some other means to furnish money to pay for the paper. W. C. WHITE.