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Postage-stamps.—Please do not send postage-stamps, as they often stick together in the mails, and are useless in this condition, and we already have all we can use. Canadian and other foreign moneys can not be used by us. Receipt.—No formal receipt is sent unless by special request. Your receiving the paper itself will be sufficient to indicate that the order has been properly entered. If you order renewal, the continuance of the paper will indicate receipt of order. In case of non-receipt of papers, or any other irregularity, please notify us immediately. Expiration of Subscription.—All papers are discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Notification will be sent you several weeks before date of expiration thus enabling you to renew in ample time to secure unbroken files. Please be prompt, as we can not always furnish back numbers. Change of Address.—Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please give both the old and the new address, in their communication. Please Do Not Mix Business.—When ordering or renewing the SIGNS, if you wish to order some other paper, or books, tracts, or lesson pamphlets, or to ask questions of the editor, please write such orders or questions on separate sheets of paper. All can be sent in one envelope, and the money all sent in one order, but it will save us much trouble if each kind of business is written on a separate sheet. In this way each order can be handed to the proper clerk and filled at once. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES is a purely missionary enterprise. For this reason it has felt free to ask for contributions from its friends. It pays nothing for contributions, either prose or poetry, unless solicited by the editor, and then the fact is stated when the articles are asked for. This is a plan rarely followed, but sometimes deemed expedient. Articles Desired.—Those which set forth in the Spirit of Christ the great saving truths of God, short and to the point. It is better to treat one important truth clearly, in a short article, than many points vaguely in a long one. We desire no caustic, critical productions, which might minister to personal pride or pleasure, but can not save souls. How Prepared.—Write plainly, with typewriter or ink, with wide space between the lines, to freely admit of editing, writing of subheads, etc. Write on one side of the sheet only. Sign the name to the manuscript, as it becomes oftentimes separated from accompanying letter. Anonymous contributions are not used, whatever their merit. If the writer does not wish his name to appear, let him furnish a pseudonym for the public. But we wish the name. Manuscript Returned.—We will return all unused manuscript desired if stamp and directions are inclosed. We are forced sometimes to return good manuscript mainly for three reasons: (a) Sometimes the articles are too long; (b) sometimes we have a number on the same subject; (c) sometimes our plans are such that an article can not be used till it is out of date. We therefore hope that no offense will be taken by those who have freely contributed their best thought if their productions are returned. When we receive so much matter, we can not use all.