PACIFIC COAST EDITION by Editor

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 12, 1878

PACIFIC COAST EDITION

By Editor

ALL who have taken this paper unite in pronouncing it the best paper for children and youth ever published. But the time has come when the growing Sabbath-school interests demand that it should be issued weekly. The following explanation appears in the December number of the Instructor :—

"THE INSTRUCTOR WEEKLY. "To meet the wishes of very many of our readers, we have decided to print the Instructor once a week. It will have four pages instead of eight, as at present; but coming four times in a month, it will contain twice as much reading during the year as the Monthly does. "We shall have a new, ornamental heading for the next number, and shall use larger type. The Weekly will contain the same kind of instructive and interesting articles that have made the Monthly a favorite; and in addition there will be a Sabbath-school Department, with lessons for each Sabbath, and hints how to study, how to recite, and how to make a good Sabbath-school. The Children's Corner will be enlarged and frequently illustrated. "The price of the Weekly Instructor will be 75 cents a year. The first number will be printed before Jan. 1, 1879. Subscribe at once, so that you can get the first number. "The monthly Instructor will be continued its present size, and at the old price, for those who prefer it. "W. C. WHITE."

PACIFIC COAST EDITION.

A letter recently received from the publishers of the Instructor, offers to furnish us with a Pacific Coast Edition if we will take from 1,500 to 2,000 copies. The Sabbath-schools of California, Washington Territory, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado need this number every week. As many copies should be taken in each school as there are members of the school, both old and young. The lessons which we are promised in the weekly Instructor are worth more than is asked for the paper.

OUR PLAN.

To do the work properly there must be a Pacific coast agency where all subscriptions for this coast should be received. This will be at the SIGNS OF THE TIMES Office. The price of the weekly Instructor is placed as follows :— Single copy per year..................75cts. 10 copies to one address, per copy, 60cts. 25 or more copies to one address....50cts. The Oakland Sabbath-school numbers about one hundred members, and has already ordered 100 copies It is hoped that every school on the Pacific coast will take hold of this work with the same spirit. To make the matter easier we propose to allow the schools to pay for the clubs taken by them in quarterly payments. Thus, the Oakland school takes 100 copies for which it agrees to pay $50.00 in four payments of $12.50 every quarter. This allows our school to take double the number that they otherwise could. Let us hear from all the schools on the coast immediately, as it is but a short time before the first number will be issued.

PRIZES.

THE following inducements taken from the December number of the Instructor, are offered to individual workers. There will be two editions of the Instructor for 1879 :—

The monthly, 8 pages, the same as it is now. Price, 50 cents.
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. For twenty new subscribers, your choice of The Life of Captain Joseph Bates, or our new picture book, a beautifully illustrated book of pictures and stories for children. 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 $2.25. For fifty new subscribers, your choice of 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.

WHERE TO SEND.

Send your orders to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. We hope no time will be lost, as we wish to commence our Pacific Coast edition with the 1st of January, 1879. Superintendents, call the attention of your schools to this matter at your first opportunity. Do not wait to raise all the money, but report what you have done as soon as possible to this office. J. E. WHITE.