Review to the Poor by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 4, 1873

Review to the Poor.

By Editor

The recent move to establish advance pay on the Review is calling in many responses from those who prize the paper, and who do not know how to do without it, but who are unable to pay for it. Some cases as reported are calculated to touch the tenderest feelings of the heart.

One brother writes that he must have the REVIEW, and that as soon as he can sell his cow, he will pay up. Another writes that he has lost the use of his hands, but manages to operate a musical instrument, with which he procures a livelihood. During the winter he is deprived of this means of support; but he wants the paper continued, and as soon as it comes warm weather he will go out again and try to get the means to pay for it. A sister, who meets with nothing at home but opposition, but who feels that she must have the REVIEW, as it is, next to the Bible, her only earthly support in the Christian life, finds it almost impossible to obtain any money to pay for it. She thinks she can devise some way to raise one dollar a year, if the paper can be sent her for that.

And so we might continue the list. But such an instance as any who loves the paper being deprived of it from lack of means, must not be allowed to occur. The friends of the cause will not be willing that it should. Enough will be found ready to contribute, either directly to the Office or through the Tract Societies, to sustain the offer which is made to the poor and those in embarrassed circumstances to receive the REVIEW at whatever sum they are able to pay, even if it be in some cases without money and without price. Now is a good time to remember the poor by contributing to send the REVIEW to them.