RAP, RAP, RAP by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · May 9, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Supplement to Vol. 51, No. 19

RAP, RAP, RAP.

By Uriah Smith

We knock at the door of every librarian of the T. and M. Societies, this week, with a very important request. It is in reference to the circulation of the REVIEW. How shall those who ought to have it be induced to take it? You have all seen in past numbers of the paper, a statement of the astonishing negligence of some Sabbath-keepers in this respect, and the evil results that flow from it.

Those who fail to take the paper lose spiritual life, and the REVIEW loses their support. And the very matter which these persons ought to have, and which the REVIEW contains for their benefit, they lose because the paper never reaches them. The object of our call we will explain under three heads:—

1. What we do. We send you a list of all those taking the REVIEW in your church.

2. What we want you to do. We want you to compare this list with the Sabbath-keepers in your church and vicinity, and thus learn how many of them are having the REVIEW; and then solicit earnestly all those who do not have it, to become subscribers at once. We urge this on their account. It will not make a cent’s difference pecuniarily with any one connected with the Publishing Association whether they take it or not; but it will make a great difference with them, and the cause cannot advance as it would if all had sufficient interest in the enterprises connected with this work, to take the church paper of the denomination.

3. What we want. We want a prompt return from these list papers containing renewals from those whose subscription has expired, and the names of those who have not been taking the REVIEW, who should have it, as permanent subscribers.

The request. Will you co-operate with us in this matter, in the manner here indicated?

U. S.