Do our readers understand that we do not furnish Tracts from the REVIEW OFFICE without pay for them? They should understand this, and be ready to pay for the Tracts they take of the traveling brethren. And they should not stop here. It is frequently necessary in new fields of labor to give Tracts to individuals who are not prepared to pay for them.—The friends of the cause should see to it that the judicious traveling brethren have means to purchase publications to take with them to new fields of labor.
Several brethren have already stated that they did not receive but about one half what they paid for their tracts. This is wrong. They should be free to state the cost of Tracts and require pay, with very few exceptions. A person that can pay for our publications, and hesitates to pay the very low price of them, we cannot hope to benefit. In time past, they have been freely handed out to such, by some of the brethren. Says our Lord, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine." Matt. vii, 6.
We felt that we could not bear longer the responsibility of publishing Tracts to be circulated by injudicious hands, and the brethren, assembled at Rochester in Conference, July last, decided that for the future they should be sold at the lowest price possible, and still keep the small publishing fund good.—Let the friends of the cause all act on this new plan of circulating Tracts in concert.—ED.