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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 17.

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MISTAKES.

By Uriah Smith

THE editors of the Star in the West furnish the following modest attempt at correcting certain rather wide-spread mistakes.
It is a mistake to suppose that the subscription price of a paper is clear gain to the publisher.
It is a mistake to suppose that he gets his white paper for nothing.
It is a mistake to suppose that it is printed without cost.
It is a mistake to suppose that he can live, bodily, by faith.
It is a mistake to suppose that it is easy to please everybody.
It is a mistake to suppose that money due for the paper would be as good to us in a year as it would be now.
It is a mistake to suppose that we would not be thankful for what is due to us, and for new subscribers.
To the foregoing we may add the following, which seem to be quite as wide-spread, and as often acted upon, as any above mentioned.
It is a mistake to suppose that we can remember the address of every subscriber on our books, so that we can turn to it at once when they do not give it.
It is a mistake to suppose that, when a subscriber writes from a new place, and wishes his paper changed to that place, we can remember just where it used to be sent, without his telling us.
It is a mistake for a person, when he orders the paper to some friend of his, or makes a remittance for him, to suppose that we know all about that friend, and can tell where he lives "just as easy" as he can.
It is a mistake for a person writing about a paper that does not come in his or her name, to suppose that we can tell what paper is intended, without being explicitly informed in whose name it is sent; inasmuch as we do not know the husbands and wives, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, of all our subscribers.
It is a mistake for a person sending money to the Office to suppose we can tell who sends it, without his giving his name.
It is a mistake for a person sending money to the Office to suppose that we can tell just how he designed to have it applied, without his giving us some intimation of his wishes in this respect.
It is a mistake to suppose that any person is such a prodigy in memory, or has such miraculous powers of guessing, as to be able to transact all business with unvarying correctness, when mistakes like the above on the part of subscribers and correspondents are of frequent occurrence.
U. S.