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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 24, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 8.

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The Signs Everywhere.

By James White

We invite all who have friends in the Old World, to whom they wish to send the SIGNS, to forward their names and $1.50 each, and we will furnish our paper to all such, post-paid, for one year. This small sum of money, however, will not meet the expenses of the paper and foreign postage, but will simply cover the cost of these extra copies. The expense of postage will be met by donations from the liberal.
We are ready to receive also the names of the Lord’s worthy poor upon our lists. We would like one thousand such names, but those who forward them must give a statement of their circumstances, and their interest to read our paper, in order to secure the SIGNS to such persons. We now open the door wide for donations to meet the expenses of the SIGNS to the poor, and to pay foreign postage.
But we wish to call the special attention of our friends to the duty of sending our paper everywhere. And first, we would impress the reader with the character and design of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. While the REVIEW AND HERALD will be adapted to the wants of our people as a church paper, the columns of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES will be filled with the reasons of our faith and hope, sketches of Christian experience, and such other matter as will be adapted to the wants of the reading public generally. To this end we have labored, and still shall labor.
We have put the subscription price of our paper, when furnished by the Tract Societies, or by individuals to their friends, at half-price, or $1.50 per year, post-paid. This we have done to place the SIGNS within the reach of all our patrons who would send it to their friends, and out into the Christian world everywhere. We have laid our plans for a very large circulation and shall not be disappointed. We regret that the work of making up our lists has moved so very slowly thus far, and that matter of great importance, which is now appearing in each issue of the SIGNS, should be read by only a few thousand persons. Each mail, however, brings us more or less new subscribers, but where they come in by tens they should be flocking in by hundreds. Probably our people will never have so good an opportunity to furnish their friends with just that reading which they would have set before them, as during the current volume of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES. We have arranged our subjects, taken hold of the work in earnest, counted the cost, placed the terms of the SIGNS within the reach of all, and by the grace of God will do our duty. If the SIGNS fails to fulfill its mission in visiting the homes of ten or fifteen thousand before the close of the present year, the failure will be chargeable to a want of active interest on the part of its professed friends.
The amount of good that has been accomplished by the circulation of our periodicals, can never be properly estimated in this world. Only a very few of the many cases of actual conversions by this means are reported at all, while impressions are made upon thousands of others, which will, in time, ripen to sound conversions. We would here give one interesting case which will stir the heart of every true missionary worker. Bro. Lucius Sanborn, of Hadley, Lapeer County, Michigan, writes, Jan. 24, 1876:—
“In the summer of 1874, one of my friends sent me the REVIEW AND HERALD. I then belonged to the Baptist church, and my wife made no profession of religion. After reading the REVIEW, I commenced keeping the Bible Sabbath in Sept., 1874. One year later, my wife and myself attended the Northern Michigan Camp-meeting at Flint, where she embraced the Christian religion. To God be all the praise, and thanks to the friend who sent me the REVIEW. I now feel it a pleasure to work to advance the cause of present truth. Here are five dollars for you to use in publishing and circulating the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.”
Should twenty thousand copies of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES be judiciously circulated, what a harvest of souls would be gathered in by this means alone during one year. Try it, brethren, and may God bless you in your good work. You shall not be disappointed in the character of our paper. Let the names and the cash come right along.
J. W.