p. 197 | Show it, Then! by M. E. Cornell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 18, 1862

“Show it, Then!”

By M. E. Cornell

Bro. White: Allow me to say to those who have taken the Review through my agency, promising to pay soon, that I have looked over the Iowa list and find that many have not yet paid anything, and are now all the way from three to ten volumes behind.

Now I feel it my duty to see that those whose names I have sent in, should pay up, or render a reason. If there are those who prize the paper, and are trying to live out the truth, that are not able to pay, let them write, or get some one to write for them.

Some have already come to the conclusion that this is a very cheap gospel, and that they are accommodating the Association very much to consent to take their papers free.

Such will soon find out their mistake. We are not the people that glory in numbers. A “little flock” well united, like Gideon’s three hundred men, will triumph at last.

I say then, if you prize the paper, let it be manifested by earnest efforts to “Pay that thou owest.” A man was once reproved and taught his duty by the singing of birds. He thought a bird on one side of the road said, “I love you, I love you,” and was immediately answered from the other side, “Show it then, Show it then.”

Do you prize the Advent Review? Show it, then! show it, then!

Where there is a will, there is (in most cases), a way. The devoted, worthy poor, are the only ones who can have the Review free, henceforth, through my agency. When honest inquirers after truth have taken the paper one year, they will do their utmost to pay for it, and when they cannot, will in some way let it be known. Adventists, of all people, should be most earnest and faithful.

M. E. CORNELL.