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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 12, 1878

HELP THE CHILDREN.

By Editor

Below we make a call for ten thousand new subscribers for the INSTRUCTOR. Frequently children and youth make the very best canvassers; and

IF PARENTS WILL HELP THEM,

five hundred children can place ten thousand INSTRUCTORS in as many families. Thus they will do a vast amount of good, and will secure to themselves some very beautiful and useful prizes. Parents, encourage your children. They need some one of these prizes, and they ought to learn to canvass; for this is an important branch of the T. and M. work.

TO OUR YOUNG CANVASSERS.

We thank you for last year’s work. You increased the circulation of the INSTRUCTOR to over six thousand three hundred subscribers, and if you will all work for it this winter we can make it fifteen thousand. A few of those who now have the paper may not renew their subscription, therefore we want

TEN THOUSAND NEW SUBSCRIBERS

before the first of March. We will give to new subscribers the same beautiful premium that was given last year, and for the canvasser we have a much finer list of prizes.

There will be two editions of the INSTRUCTOR for 1879:—

1. The monthly, 8 pages, the same as it is now. Price, 50 cents.

2. The weekly, 4 pages. Price, 75 cents.

The Child’s Poems will be sent as a premium to each new subscriber for either edition. Those who now take the monthly and change to the weekly will not be considered new subscribers.

We advise our canvassers FIRST to offer the weekly edition.

LIST OF PRIZES.

If you will send us Eight new subscribers for the INSTRUCTOR, monthly or weekly, or both, we will send you your choice of one of the three volumes of Golden Grains: Vol. 1, The Hard Way; Vol. 2, The School-Boy’s Dinner; Vol. 3, Grumbling Tommy.

For Twelve new subscribers, your choice of Vol. 1, 2, or 3, of Sabbath Readings, or the Game of Life, with cloth binding.

For Twenty new subscribers, your choice of The Life of Captain Joseph Bates, or the Bible Atlas and Gazetteer, containing six large and accurate maps, a list of all geographical names with references to the maps, and a variety of most useful tables. Price of each, $1.00.

For Forty new subscribers, your choice between the “Bird’s-Eye View of Palestine,” a beautiful chart of the Holy Land, price $2.50, and a Pearl Oxford Teacher’s Bible, with Index, Concordance, and Maps, price $2.00.

For Fifty new subscribers, your choice of a Nonpareil Oxford Teacher’s Bible, with Index, Concordance and Maps, price $3.50, or the three books, Climbing the Mountain, Old Red House, and Story of a Pocket Bible.

To the one who will send us the largest number of new subscribers before Jan. 1, 1879, be it many or few, we will give your choice of all the volumes of the INSTRUCTOR since it was enlarged (eight in number), bound in one volume, or a Minion Teacher’s Bible, with Index, Concordance, and Maps; price of each, $5.00.

QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

Will the monthly and weekly INSTRUCTOR contain the same articles? If so, why do you print the monthly? E. T.

Ans.—The weekly will contain all that is in the monthly, and much more. We print two editions because many have subscribed for the monthly a year ahead.

I have paid one year ahead on the monthly INSTRUCTOR. How can I change it for the weekly? W. W.

Ans.—If you request it, we will send you the weekly for two-thirds of the time you have paid ahead; or if you send us twenty-five cents more, we will send you the weekly for a year. W. C. W.