REPORTS OF LABOR by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1878

REPORTS OF LABOR.

By Editor

Using our pencil as a gavel, we would rap loud enough to call the attention of all who are laboring in the field to a word we have to say to them in regard to their reports.

1. Please be careful to date your reports. It adds to the interest of the narrative to know when the work was done. We are happy to say that nearly all are faithful in this respect; but some complaints come in, apparently well-founded, that some do not provide their reports with the requisite dates. This is apt to leave the impression that if the date was given, the report would appear stale, or that the same report in different phraseology is in danger of appearing twice.

2. A very effectual safeguard against the evil above alluded to, will be found in keeping your reports right up to date. Don't let them run behind. A report which extends back three months, is in great danger of losing its way before it reaches the paper, and taking a path that leads into the waste-basket instead. Short and often, fresh and to the point, must be the rule. Our work is spreading out on every hand. The voice of the message has already reached no inconsiderable volume. Through the Progress Department one great feature of this work is presented. We have reason to believe that this department is perused with greater eagerness and interest than any other. Let the contributors to this portion of the paper, then, take special care to make it still more lively and interesting.