TO CORRESPONDENTS by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1862

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

By Editor

Don't write when you have nothing to say, or to send. We receive about thirty letters a day, and do not find time to read one in five of them. The Secretary reads them, unless they are too long and prosy, and puts into the editor's box only those letters which he must see.

Last week we drove out into the country twenty-eight miles, and Sabbath and first-day preached four times, and returned to our business without a day of rest, as other men have. We do the same this week, and after wading through the usual amount of business, on our return, prepare for the journey West, to meet a crowd and preach to them four times the very next Sabbath and first-day. How much time, think you, we have for reading and answering long communications relative to local matters we personally know nothing about? We are compelled to say to those who are tempted to write such communications for us to read, that they had better save their time, paper, ink, and postage, for they will not be read.

Let business matters be clearly stated, and as briefly as possible, entirely disconnected from all other matter. All articles for the Review should have written on them at the top of the first page, For the Review, and should be written in a free, plain, easy style, every word helping to express some clear idea. Write all you have to say as briefly as you can, and fully express your thoughts. Such articles are hailed with joy.