THE NEW ANNUAL by D. A. Robinson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 16, 1879

THE NEW ANNUAL.

By D. A. Robinson

The Annual for 1880 is now ready, and on careful examination proves to be the best we have ever had. The change of name last year, making it Health Annual instead of Health Almanac, was an improvement; but just at this time, amid the earnest appeals for temperance, when strong advocates are urging it everywhere, the addition of the word “Temperance” to the name of our Annual this year gives it a peculiar adaptation to public sentiment. During the next three or four months these Annuals should find their way into 10,000 families in the N. E. Conference. This can be done only by individual effort. Are there not fifty persons here who will use one hundred each? Fifty more who will use fifty each? one hundred who will use twenty-five each? Do this, and your ten thousand will be used up. Can this be done? It can. Whether it will or not depends mainly on the efforts of our brethren and sisters. Do you say that there are many who can do nothing in this work, and consequently my estimate for each is large? That might be true providing the above number embraced all the members, but it includes not quite one-half.

We should not put forth all our efforts in one direction, but we should have an interest in every enterprise connected with the last message of mercy. I will pledge myself to be one of thirty for the ten thousand. I do not mean to simply give them away, but to sell them. They will in some cases prove to be an introduction to the truth. May God help us to see when good comes, and to use every available means that his providence places within our reach. D. A. ROBINSON.