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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 25, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 17.

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For 1909.

By Editor

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, we believe, has the best list of subscribers in the world. That may not be the way to put it, for the biggest list is considered the best list. It is better to say that we have a list of the best subscribers in the world. They are of the noble, helpful kind. They are found among all peoples, persuasions, nationalities, races, and classes, who speak the English language. They rarely find fault, and if they do, a hundred to one are the chances that they have the right to do so under the circumstances.
Such a list of friends as that we ought at least to try to please and still be true to truth and our mission.
Our attempt to do this has not been wholly successful during the last six months. They have said so, said so so kindly and tenderly, yet so plainly that we have had no doubt about it; and our hearts have sympathized with them.
It was a mistake to try to substitute for what some have been pleased to call "the grand old SIGNS" a weekly consisting of three small issues each month and one large one. We know it; we all know it. Now let "bygones be bygones," only as they serve for object-lessons.
There is a demand for the monthly. It will meet that demand. Let this suffice for that in this connection.
But the weekly, the regular old 16-page weekly will be restored for 1909.
The preaching of the Gospel of God ever widening, developing, demands it.
The great strenuous age, filled to the full with fulfilments of the word, portentous with omens of a mighty change, gleaming with lights shining from across the harbor-bar of Home, and the needs of perishing humanity demand the publication of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES as it has been and better.
Therefore, beginning with the year 1909, the regular SIGNS OF THE TIMES will be published as before, weekly, 16 pages, at the regular price of $1.50 per year.
Equitable adjustment will be made with all those who have subscribed for both papers.
Next week we will tell you more about it. We have delayed our forms a day to say this. Look for what we shall say next week.