Missionary Work for the Winter.
Under this heading in the Review, Elder Haskell speaks as follows concerning the SIGNS OF THE TIMES:— “Besides the ten thousand copies taken in clubs, we should have FIVE THOUSAND NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
“We see no reason why we should not have this number, and many more, if all our friends will put forth a little effort, aided by our most liberal premium offer, viz., to furnish a copy of ‘Conybeare and Howson’s Life and Epistles of the Apostle Paul’ with the SIGNS, to new subscribers; for two dollars and a quarter. This book is needed by all our brethren who are in any way interested in our Sabbath-school lessons. These lessons, which have just completed the study of the life of our Lord, will soon take up the acts and teachings of the apostles, among whom Paul took so prominent a part. The International Sunday-school Lessons for 1883 are to be upon the same subject, thus making this book very acceptable and profitable to all using the International Lessons. We know of no better book, aside from the inspired volumes, to help the student of this portion of New-Testament history. Our State tract societies are taking hold of this work, and are ordering quantities of the premium book shipped to their State depositories. Over twelve hundred copies have already been ordered; and we look for a general rally to this work on the part of our brethren from Maine to California. This work is especially suited to new fields, and we appeal to our ministers, tract society officers, and to our brethren and sisters generally, to make one grand strike to largely increase the circulation of our pioneer sheet throughout all the country. The long evenings have already begun. They will soon pass. How many are there who will begin the new year by enrolling their names as workers, determined, at least, to secure a sufficient number of subscribers to entitle them to a copy of the ‘Life of St. Paul’?”