Pass None By by Samuel J. Hersum

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 14, 1873

Pass None By.

By Samuel J. Hersum

WHILE I was out a few days since trying to get subscribers for the REVIEW, Instructor, and Reformer, and not having very good success, at first, I thought I had one thing to console me whether I succeeded in obtaining any subscribers for the above-named periodicals or not: If I tried, and failed to get any, I should feel that I had done what I could. If I obtained one subscriber for either of these papers, I should feel well paid for all the effort that I made.

And more than that, I learned how easy it is for me to be mistaken. Before starting out, I had my mind on a few families that I thought would take the Instructor, if others did not; because the parents of these families were professors of religion, and had quite a number of children. In this, I was mistaken; but as I was calling at every house on the road, I obtained two subscribers for the Instructor where I did not think they would want it at all; only called because I did not wish to pass any by.

Brethren and sisters, let us not pass any by; for we are too short sighted to decide who will, or who will not, read our publications.

At one place where I called, the father was a professor of religion, and I asked him if he would subscribe for the Instructor for his children. He said he did not feel able to take it, but at the same time he had a chew of tobacco in his mouth. Twenty-five of such, would nearly or quite pay the price of the paper for a year.

SAMUEL J. HERSUM.

Belgrade, Me., Dec. 10, 1872.