THE FAMILY HEALTH ANNUAL FOR 1878.
By S. N. Haskell
Owning to the prejudice that exists against purchasing, and the repugnance many have to selling, an almanac, it has been thought best to substitute the name HEALTH ANNUAL. The Annual is circulated for the information it contains on the subject of health. The almanac proper is put in it to make it desirable in every family. We speak for a circulation of not less than 200,000 copies this year. That number of families should be furnished with the Health Annual for 1878. Five Conferences have already sent their first orders, which are as follows: Michigan, 14,000; Wisconsin, 10,000; New England, 10,000; Illinois, 6,000; Vermont, 2,000 (Vermont, will increase her order not less than 3,000, Michigan about 5,000,); then the number ordered will amount to 50,000. When the other Conferences do as well in proportion 200,000 copies of the Annual will start on their mission to as many families. Says the president of the Wisconsin Conference, “Count us second to no Conference, except Michigan, in any enterprise that helps forward the third angel’s message.” If our friends in Wisconsin stand by their president in this statement, and Iowa takes advantage of her strength over Wisconsin, which is more than one-fifth, in ministers, licentiates, churches, membership, and finances, the Wisconsin Conference will have to advance a few thousand on their order for Annuals. Then there is the Old Empire State, with her well disciplined force of tract workers. We have become considerably interested to know which of these three will rank second to Michigan. Orders should be sent in immediately, and advantage taken of the months of October and November, before the rush of drug almanacs. There is no time to lose. Let us “be as wise as serpents,” in this matter.