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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 48.

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WITH this issue volume six of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES is brought to a close. The average number printed weekly has been about nine thousand four hundred. This speaks well for a religious paper advocating unpopular Bible truths. The improvements which were made in the size and form of volume six and the very low club rates at which it was furnished met the approval of our missionary workers, to whose efforts its wide circulation is largely due, and the experiment of two editions has proved that our people were more anxious to have a good paper than to have a cheap paper.
The eight-page edition, having decreased to about two thousand copies, is discontinued, and all who have subscribed for it will receive the regular twelve-page paper in its place. We leave it to the liberality of those receiving clubs whose term of subscription extend into 1881, whether they will make up to us a part of the amount lost by furnishing them a larger and better paper than they have paid for.
The terms of the SIGNS are as favorable as possible. Two dollars a year is very low for a twelve-page paper filled each week with new matter. In most religious papers several pages are devoted to advertisements which, while they rob the readers, are a great source of income to the publishers.
In order to encourage missionary work, the SIGNS is furnished in clubs of five or more to one address at $1.50 a year.
The season of the year for the greatest activity in missionary work has fully come. During the leisure of winter and the long evenings is the time to call the attention of the people to the importance of Bible truths. Now is the time for a general and united effort. We hope to see the circulation of the SIGNS greatly increased during 1881.
It is desirable that new subscriptions should commence with the new volume. It is also important that our old patrons, whose subscriptions close with this number, should renew at once so they will not lose two or three of the first numbers. Be in season.
Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal.