A Word to Subscribers by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1873

A Word to Subscribers.

By Editor

1. If you want the REVIEW continued, there is no reason why you should let it be stopped, for your pastor tells you every week just when your subscription expires, and a blue cross opposite the special note gives each one notice of the time it will stop if not renewed. If it is discontinued, it is no fault of the Office.

2. Do not expect any discrimination to be made in your favor because you are “an old subscriber,” or “an old friend of the cause,” for the clerks in the counting room have no means of knowing this; their only guide is the number on the poster. And even if they knew all of the subscribers, they could not be expected to examine a list of 5,000 names to see who should be exempted from the rule. And old friends of the cause should show their continued interest by renewing their subscriptions in good season.

3. If you want all the numbers, you must renew in time, for the back numbers cannot always be supplied. When they can, it causes additional labor.

4. If your papers do stop, do not complain of the Secretary or clerks, but remember that advance pay is the rule, and full and long notice has been given.

5. If you will remember this, and act upon it, many unpleasant feelings will be prevented, and, perhaps, unchristian words will be avoided.