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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 12, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 15.

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Will They Do It?

By James White

Eld. Haskell urges that the work of circulating the SIGNS OF THE TIMES should be done through the T. & M. Societies, instead of calling for subscribers and donations direct to the SIGNS Office. He is right as to the system; but will they do it? Will the T. and M. Societies in all the States come right up to the work at once? The long evenings for reading and visiting are upon us, and there is no time to be lost, as in the case of last year. In fact, the great State of Michigan, and several others, did not get ready all winter, and did next to nothing.
No reading matter will do as much good for the money as the weekly visits of the SIGNS at $1.50 per year, post-paid. It was supposed that the Minnesota brethren overacted in the circulation of the VOICE OF TRUTH, which made a debt of $2,300, followed immediately by the grasshopper scourge. That was one of the best mistakes Minnesota ever made, as the wide circulation of the VOICE resulted in preparing the minds of scores to receive the message. And the Review Office is helping Minnesota out of the debt, in giving her Society as much and as fast as payments are made on the debt, so that Minnesota will be ready to take hold of the SIGNS to the extent of her means. There are several ways by which to circulate the SIGNS:—
1. Those who are able to take both papers should subscribe for the SIGNS at $2.00 a year, and after they have read it, send it over the neighborhood for others to read.
2. The friends of the cause can send the SIGNS to their friends at $1.50 a year.
3. The Tract Societies can carry out their system of circulating periodicals and furnish the SIGNS to thousands.
4. Individuals can take several copies, from two to ten, and, as they enter upon missionary labor, furnish them to individuals who wish to read, and forward their names to the SIGNS Office as fast as they can obtain them.
5. Hundreds of young and active T. and M. workers should be canvassing for the SIGNS at the low price of $1.50 a year, post-paid, to those not in the faith. It may be an advantage in many cases to club the Engraving, Way of Life, at $2.00 for it and the SIGNS one year. We offer no commission to T. and M. workers. Missionaries under salaries seldom do much for God.
6. And lastly, but by no means the least, let the right persons be at head-quarters, who shall act as officers of the General Tract and Missionary Society, who shall, by active correspondence, send the SIGNS beyond the limits of the several Societies, into every State, territory, province, and kingdom, where the English language is spoken.
We fully indorse the system of the T. and M. Society, and very well know that the best way to circulate the SIGNS is through its several branches. But, will they do it promptly, thoroughly, and liberally? J. W.