HEALTH AND TEMPERANCE ANNUAL.
By James White
* FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND COPIES SHOULD BE CIRCULATED.
The Health and Temperance Annual for 1880 is ready. In the second edition is a leaf devoted to brief sketches of the lives and temperance principles and labors of Elders Joseph Bates and James White, with their portraits. Of these men who were the first to labor in the cause of present truth and in the temperance reform, the Annual says:— “Thousands of those who read this page will recognize in the accompanying portrait the kindly face of one of the veterans of temperance reform in America, who was well known among temperance reformers half a century ago as Capt. Bates. After following the sea for more than twenty years, during which period his life was often miraculously preserved by a kind Providence who had work for him to do in after years, he settled down with an ample fortune in an eastern city, and engaged in the temperance reform, of which he was one of the earliest advocates, being instrumental in organizing the first temperance society in America. The narrative of his life, written chiefly by himself, is a work of the most thrilling interest, and one which should be in the hands of the young everywhere. Few men of more dignified character or more unselfish disposition have left records of their lives as examples worthy of emulation.” “The first edition of the Life of Elder Joseph Bates was exhausted a long time ago, and the call for it has been so great that a new and greatly improved edition, edited by Eld. James White, for more than thirty years one of his most intimate friends and co-laborers, has been issued and is for sale at the REVIEW AND HERALD Office. The work is one which ought to be in every family. 320 pp., price $1.00, postpaid. “Address REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich.” “The original of the portrait opposite needs no introduction to the readers of the Annual, as there can be few of them to whom both the name and the countenance of Eld. White are not familiar as the leading man in one of the most interesting, and in many respects remarkable, religious movements this or any other country has ever known. At an early age Eld. White entered the ministry, in which he has been an active laborer for more than thirty years, having in that time accomplished an amount of work rarely equaled in a single lifetime. Eld. White has always taken a strong stand in favor of temperance, being in this respect far in advance of most workers in this branch of reform, having for many years advocated and practiced abstinence not only from liquors of all sorts, but from the use of tobacco, tea and coffee, and all other narcotics and stimulants. He has, in fact, for nearly thirty years, promulgated the principles embodied in the pledges and constitution of the American Health and Temperance Association, of the executive committee of which he is chairman. “In response to the constant demands for such a work, Eld. White has prepared a volume of ‘Life Sketches,’ which is not only a deeply interesting account of the remarkable life and labors of the author, but also of Mrs. White, who has been closely associated with her husband in his work, and incidentally of the various religious and other reformatory movements which he has been chiefly instrumental in inaugurating. In press, nearly ready. About 600 pp. Elegantly bound, containing fine steel engravings of Eld. and Mrs. White. Price, postpaid, $1.50. “Address REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich.” We imagine that we hear some of the tract and missionary workers exclaim: “Four hundred thousand copies! Never!! No, we can do no such thing! No, never!!” Hold, dear friends! We have not yet asked you to circulate 400,000 copies of the Annual for 1880. It has been offered to you for just two-thirds what it cost. Should you circulate as many, it would be a loss of just $2,000 to the REVIEW Office, to say nothing of the expense of handling it, and what Dr. Kellogg deserves for his services in preparing it for the press. Should you circulate 400,000 copies at one dollar per hundred, the Office could hardly stand the strain just now. We suggest that the Health and Temperance Annual for 1880 be circulated through the mail at once by the members and friends of the American Health and Temperance Association. There should be 11,000 of these on the continent. These can dispose of 400,000 Annuals easily, if each person will purchase and circulate gratuitously to their neighbors and friends quantities ranging from twenty-five to one hundred copies. Such an Annual will be a present to be prized by all reading, thinking, sensible people. And there are thousands of persons among us who have each a hundred such friends to please by presenting to them a copy of the Annual. Let us figure. Suppose: 1000 persons take 100 each—100,000
2000 “ “ 50 “ =100,000
8000 “ “ 25 “ =200,000
So 11,000 persons would take 400,000 We now offer the Annual by mail, postage paid, at the following rates:— 100 copies to one address, $2.15
50 “ “ “ “ 1.10
25 “ “ “ “ .60
10 “ “ “ “ .25
5 “ “ “ “ .15
3 “ “ “ “ .10
single copy .05 Father Bates, the health and temperance hero, the man who first led out upon the Sabbath question among us, sleeps. The memory of this noble, good man is precious. Though dead, he speaks. His good face is given in the Annual, with a sketch of his life. Let it be repeated in our Annual for 1880 not less than 400,000 times. Friends of the Health and Temperance Annual, be in season, be in earnest. Before your numerous friends have a chance to take to their homes the comic and drug-advertising almanacs, put 400,000 of the Health and Temperance Annuals at as many firesides. Let the orders come in with the cash, and let the Annual go out to the people. J. W.