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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 6.

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WHAT SHALL BE DONE?

By W. C. White

WHILE the T. and M. Societies are making noble efforts to obtain new subscribers for the REFORMER and INSTRUCTOR, there are hundreds who subscribed for the first time last year, whose time is out, and who could be induced to renew if visited by an agent who would solicit their renewal.
One of the objects of our T. and M. Society, as stated in the Constitution, is, to obtain subscribers for our periodicals; to collect dues and renew subscriptions; and to pay subscriptions for the worthy poor.
We ask the tract societies to act as our agents in soliciting renewals as well as in getting new subscribers. If each State society will act with us in this matter we will furnish them monthly a list of all in the State whose subscriptions have expired, and who after a week or two has passed have not yet renewed.
This will give an excellent opportunity to do other missionary work. Many who have been reading for a year may be just upon the point of decision where a friendly missionary call would do them good. Others there may be of our brethren who have become indifferent, and who have allowed their REVIEW to stop. These should be urged to renewed activity and interest in the progress of the truth. The REVIEW has no more subscribers than it had a few years ago, when there were no more than half as many names on our church books. This should not be so, and will not be if the T. and M. Society will look after the delinquents.
Times are hard, and we shall do all that is reasonable for old patrons who want the paper, but who cannot pay for it just the week or month that the subscription expires. But our clerks sometimes change, and they do not know one subscriber from another, therefore we shall ask the tract societies to take the responsibility of saying who shall have and who shall not have the paper after the subscription has expired. If worthy persons want the paper, can pay for it, but not at present, and the society will be responsible for them, we will put them on a credit list. This credit list we will send to the State Secretaries once in three months, for revision.
W. C. WHITE.