The Youth's Instructor
By James White
Is published monthly, at the Review and Herald Office. Terms, in advance:- Single copy, 36 cts.
- From 5 to 10 copies directed to one person, 25 cts.
- From 10 to 20 copies directed to one person, 20 cts.
- From 20 to 100 copies directed to one person, 15 cts.
- Those who order it for their friends, 25 cts.
- Those unable to pay, Free.
Address URIAH SMITH, Battle Creek, Mich. Fifteen hundred copies of this little visitor go out monthly to greet its anxiously waiting readers. This must be regarded as a great circulation for so youthful a sheet, sent out to but few besides the children of Sabbath-keepers. We much regret the necessity of putting the price above twenty-five cents a year. It costs $20 each number to edit, print, and mail this little paper, putting the labor of one capable to this task at $1 a day, allowing nothing for the use of type, office-rent, stationery, books, wood, lights, &c. At $20 a month it would cost $240 a year. The receipts for past year have been $238,89. The amount necessary to cover the real expense of the Instructor is not less than $300 a year. If 1200 would pay 25 cents each, the amount would be $300, the sum necessary to do justice to the Office, and to those who work on the paper. Then 300 copies could be sent to poor children free. It is a pity to put the Instructor higher than twenty-five cents a year. Perhaps you may inquire, How can the matter be helped? Answer. Let every one who takes the paper (designing to pay for it) promptly pay in advance. We have marked the amount due on the margin of the January number; and if those who are in debt will pay the sums due, and 25 cents for Vol. vii immediately, we will change the terms in the next month's paper to 25 cents. It cannot be expected that in every case the accounts have been kept perfectly correct. We hope to be pardoned for any mistake, and shall be pleased to be corrected. Those who send the Instructor to their friends should pay for next volume immediately, or order it discontinued. Those who wish to make a fine present to their young friends, can send them the Instructor for one year for 25 cents. It is rather late to talk about New Year's presents, but it is not too late to send your friends a fine present each month in the year. Come, friends, help us in extending the circulation of this little sheet. Every Sabbath-keeping family should have it. Now is the time to subscribe that you may get all the numbers as they are issued.