THERE has been $31 received for Tracts, more than has been paid out. This, with $156 worth on hand, makes the Tract fund amount to $187. Besides this, several brethren have Tracts on hand. When these are sold and the pay sent in, it will be added to the Tract fund.
We are satisfied that the brethren have adopted the best plan to circulate Tracts. Our former plan of circulating them gratuitously, threw too much responsibility on the publisher. We refused to bear the responsibility of receiving donations from the faithful, to publish Tracts to be put into the hands of those who might ask for them to be distributed, perhaps injudiciously. Now the responsibility of using the Lord's property rests on the many who wish to circulate them. We can publish Tracts as cheap as at any publishing office in the Union, and shall let the brethren have them at cost, which is some less than the retail prices set to each Tract. This will be necessary, that agents and traveling brethren may be able to pay freight on Tracts they get from this office.
Much good can be done in circulating Tracts. Let all the friends of the cause do what they can in this respect.