Publishers' Department by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 8, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 47.

Publishers' Department.

By Editor

THE AMERICAN SENTINEL.

ITS CIRCULATION, WHAT OTHERS SAY OF IT, ETC.

THE following items concerning its circulation we clip from an editorial note in the December Sentinel.

It is with devout thanks to God that with this number the Sentinel closes its second successful year. A year ago we stated that there had been more than 150,000 copies of the Sentinel circulated in that year, and that we hoped to see more than 250,000 copies circulated in 1887. And now at the close of 1887 we are happy to announce that our hopes have been realized. More than 255,000 copies of the American Sentinel, by actual register, have been printed and circulated in 1887; 1,651 paid subscribers were received in October alone. The Sentinel is a success. It has come to stay. Its field is constantly enlarging; its work is growing constantly more important. Everybody needs the paper. And, reader, we bespeak your good offices in helping us to see that everybody gets it. (1) By subscribing, or renewing your subscription, yourself; and (2) by getting your neighbors and acquaintances to subscribe or to renew their subscriptions. We hope to make the Sentinel for 1888 still an improvement over that of 1887. We hope to see more than 500,000 copies printed and circulated in 1888, and we shall see it if you will help us.

A gentleman in Norfolk, N. Y., says:—

"I think the Sentinel very valuable, and believe that it is called for at this time. It is doing a very important work. I wish you success."

A member of the California State Senate writes thus to a friend who sent him a copy of the Sentinel:

"I heartily indorse the principles advocated by the Sentinel, and wish it Godspeed in its good work."

An attorney in Pottsville, Pa., writes to the publishers:—

"GENTLEMEN: Inclosed please find fifty cents for one year's subscription to your paper, which advocates a doctrine to which I cordially subscribe, to wit, that Church and State must be kept separate and apart if our Republic and her glorious institutions are to be preserved."

A member of the Tennessee Senate says:—

"Permit me to assure you that I am well pleased with the Sentinel. When I returned home from Nashville, I found that the Sentinel for last year, bound in paper covers, had been sent to me without charge. If it was by mistake please let me know the price, and I will cheerfully pay it."

The same gentleman also ordered a pamphlet on the Sabbath question, which had been advertised in the Sentinel.

The President of the New York Conference says:

"Your card is at hand, and also a set of the new Sentinel tracts. They are excellent, although I have read them previously in the Sentinel. I am a careful reader of that periodical and prize it very highly. It deserves a large circulation and thorough study. Its importance cannot be overestimated."

A member of the Ohio Supreme Court writes thus to the publishers:—

"MY DEAR SIRS: I return you my many thanks for your kind and courteous letter of the 11th inst., and for several numbers of the Sentinel, which came to hand at the same time with your letter. Several articles in the Sentinel which I have read have been to me full of interest and instruction, and I am, I trust, excusable for my curiosity in desiring to know who is the 'Ohio Boy' who has been so kind and considerate as to have my name placed upon your list. The speech of Senator Crockett I will carefully read, as the subject is very suggestive."

A letter from the secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, Savannah, Ga., says:—

"GENTLEMEN: Copies of Pacific Health Journal and American Sentinel have been read, and have been placed on prominent files in our reading-room. I trust you will send us these two excellent publications regularly, and it will always give me pleasure to call the attention of our young men to them."

A subscriber in Washington Territory writes as follows to the editors:—

"The Sentinel is an ever welcome visitor; we only regret that it is not a weekly instead of a monthly periodical. Will renew when the time expires. You are the right ones in the right place, and have already won many friends here. May angels guard and success attend you."

A LADY from Kirkwood, Illinois, ordering the Sentinel sent to some friends, says:—

"You are certainly sounding out the truth on the question of religious liberty."