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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 14, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 11.

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RESPONSES

By Mary Martin

The following responses have been received from those to whom specimen copies of the Signs have been sent by the V. M. Society at South Lancaster, Mass.:—
“I read your papers carefully and am much interested in them. Have lent them to several friends, and they appreciate them highly. I hope to get some subscribers.”
“I appreciate The Signs of the Times, and hope it will continue to come. Please write me, giving the subscription price.”
“I send you the names of several who would like to read your paper. Inclosed please find money to defray expense.”
“I am very much pleased with your paper. Many thanks for your kindness. Inclosed please find ——.”
“I have received The Signs of the Times you mention. I read them attentively, then handed them to my neighbors. The arguments seem to be sound and scriptural.”
“The papers you sent to me were always gladly received, and read with much interest. The doctrines therein set forth are new to me; but after a careful search they really seem to harmonize with the Bible.”
“I have been the happy recipient of The Signs of the Times. The paper will always be welcome. Please accept thanks, and inform me upon what terms you will furnish it.”
“I received the papers of which you speak, and am thankful for them. They are excellent. Will send the pay for them this month. I received your kind letter today, and hope God will bless you.”
“The papers sent me have been received and read. I was pleased with them. Am glad to read whatever is true, especially respecting passing events, showing our proximity to the Great Day.”
“Please accept my warmest thanks for the papers you sent me, and especially the letter. I felt while reading it that one of the richest rewards the Saviour gives us in his service is the friendship of his dear people. The work on health [REFORMER] is valuable. I have enjoyed the paper very much for the high tone of spirituality which pervades it. I like Mrs. White’s Bible talks. With regard to the peculiar doctrines taught, I was instructed differently concerning the millennium. Yours may be, and probably is, the correct theory.”
“The Signs of the Times is interesting to us, as my husband and myself have been acquainted with the advent movement from its commencement till the present time. We were well acquainted with many of the first who proclaimed the coming of our Lord, and esteemed them highly. Mr. Bates visited us when we were living in the East. We have been much interested of late in Mrs. White’s writings. Although we have never met her, we have ever felt a deep interest in her. We do not know who the friend is who has introduced us to you. Pardon me if I tell you our ages. My husband is seventy-one and I sixty-eight.”
“The papers have been read with both interest and profit. I return you many thanks. I wish they might be in every household in the land.”
The following is from a lawyer: “Please accept my thanks for the papers you sent me. I have read them, and should be pleased to receive more. I have been familiar with the advent doctrine since 1843, but have not embraced it as tenaciously as some. With regard to the Sabbath question, I think you have the best of the argument on your side. Upon some other points of doctrine I have been taught differently, still you may be right as there is much reason in your belief.”
These are but samples of what we are receiving. We are always glad to witness immediate results; but if we do not, we remember that in the parable of the sower it was not the seed which came up first which brought forth most abundantly. We hope one day, not far in the future, to see the fruit of the seed which may now be germinating.
MARY MARTIN.