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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 22, No. 2.

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Sabbath Readings.

By Editor

MRS. W., assisted by Sister A. P. Patton, is publishing a series of tracts with the above title, for youth and children. She has a vast amount of moral and religious reading which she has been collecting during the past fifteen years, from which she is selecting and compiling these tracts. They are coming from the press at the rate of about one hundred pages a week. These will be held for sale in three forms, namely:
First, in 16 page tracts, at $2,00 per hundred.
Second, six tracts bound in paper covers, making a pamphlet of one hundred pages, at 10 cents, postage, 2 cents.
Third, twenty-four tracts bound in one volume, in muslin, at 50 cents, postage, 8 cents.
Some have the idea that the enterprise contemplates furnishing Sabbath-school libraries. This cannot be done for two reasons: First, 3000 copies of only fifty-two paper covered pamphlets, one for each Sabbath in the year, would cost $7280, which is a larger sum than can at present be invested in such reading. Second, a few hundred copies of each would supply all our Sabbath-schools. No, this Sabbath reading is designed for every family. All our friends must be liberal in supplying their families, and their neighbors, or the enterprise will be a losing one. Those who print for the million can sell at lower prices and get rich, while those who in the humble path of unpopular truth publish, have limited circulation, and consequently higher prices in order that sales may equal expenses.
But the prices of these books at the present high prices of labor and stock, are low, very low; and we hope that all who look favorably upon the enterprise of furnishing with good reading, those homes which are destitute, and adding to their own libraries suitable Sabbath reading, will help sustain it. In about four weeks, we can furnish the first 384 pages in either of the above named forms. Those who order first, will be served first.