It is now fully decided to commence, with the new year, a monthly sheet entitled, The True Missionary to be devoted principally to the interests of the tract and missionary work among our people. Through the columns of this monthly, the system of organized effort in the line of tract and missionary work will be fully explained, appeals for vigorous action will be made, and reports of progress will be given.
No one can estimate the importance of this organization, and but few can realize at present the value of a straightforward, spirited paper devoted to its interests. The ADVENT REVIEW AND HERALD OF THE SABBATH has an important mission of its own, and its already crowded columns cannot consistently be devoted to the tract and missionary cause. It is therefore thought advisable to issue, commencing with January, 1874, The True Missionary at the trifling sum of fifty cents a year in advance.
We now earnestly invite the readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD to become subscribers for this sheet. And we would here suggest that, as the first number will be issued early in December, there is no time for delay in forwarding orders for the paper. These orders should be given in plain handwriting, the name of the person, post-office, county, and State, to which it is to be sent, accompanied by fifty cents for each subscriber. We hope to make up a list of 5000 subscribers before December 25, 1873, to whom we can mail the first number without delay.
The several officers of the Tract and Missionary Societies are especially urged to immediate action in securing the names and the pay of all who should read The True Missionary. Pass up the names and addresses, with the cash, brethren, and you shall have a sheet that will doubly reward all your efforts, if united, cheerful, hopeful, vigorous action can secure it. The brethren go out from our late General Conference with increased interest and zeal in the cause, their pens touched anew with the fire of love and devotion to the cause, and their souls imbued and burdened with the world-wide missionary work.
The True Missionary will be issued, and will be a success. But that the success may be complete, the hearty co-operation of all is wanted. Send us subscribers; send in your cash; and let those who can furnish good original or selected matter, be sure to forward it to this Office.