The Review on Trial by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1872

The Review on Trial.

By James White

We now offer one volume of the REVIEW of twenty-six numbers, covering one-half of a year, to all those who wish to send it to their friends, for the small sum of fifty cents. This liberal proposition is made to only those who subscribe and pay for the REVIEW for their friends.

Those who subscribe for the REVIEW on trial for themselves can have it for the sum of seventy-five cents for one volume of twenty-six numbers. We no longer offer it one year on trial for $1.50. One volume covering half a year is sufficient time for trial. The trial volume will commence December 17, when the first number of it will be issued. Relative to the trial volume we have to say—

1. It will cover the season of the year when the people have time to read, and investigate.

2. The greatest care will be taken to fill the trial volume of our excellent paper with the reasons of our faith and hope, covering, as far as possible, the entire ground, and with the best articles relative to the Christian life.

3. It is expected that the discussions now being conducted by the editor and Elder Griswold, and Elds. Waggoner and Vogel will come to an end before the trial volume shall commence.

4. The volume will reach to the middle of June, 1873, when the progress department will be crowded with the reports of tent labor. The volume just before that time can be devoted very largely, as before suggested, to stirring, burning truth relative to our faith and hope, and the preparation to meet the Lord. We design that the trial volume shall be a special repository of the light and fire of the truth of God's word for this time.

5. The terms are made so exceedingly easy that all our brethren and sisters can engage in the work of subscribing for the REVIEW for their friends. Just think of it! For the sum of ten dollars you can have such a paper as above described, sent to twenty of your friends for the period of half a year. To show you how this will go, we have seen a brother to-day who sent the REVIEW to his brother in Oregon, who has been opposed to the Advent doctrine, but who now reports that the REVIEW is the best religious paper he has seen. This brother wished to subscribe for another friend, and when told that he could send the REVIEW six months for fifty cents, he immediately subscribed for four instead of one.

6. We call for 20,000 trial subscribers. It will take just 1,000 benevolent persons, who love their friends, and wish to see them walking in the truth, to accomplish this work, by sending us twenty subscribers each accompanied with ten dollars. But all can take a part. Send in the names, all the way from two to two hundred.

7. When the time shall be up, we shall give due notice; urge all our trial subscribers to renew by paying the regular price in advance; and if they do not respond, their names will be dropped.

8. The friends should be in season. The members of the Tract and Missionary Society everywhere should be active. The names should be received as soon as possible, so that the printer may be able to form a tolerably correct idea of how many copies to print of the first number of the trial volume on December 15. Send in the names liberally, and by the tenth of December if possible.

JAMES WHITE. Pres. S. D. A. P. A.