A Few Facts by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Aug 26, 1862

A Few Facts.

By Editor

1. THE entire property connected with the Review Office is the property of the S. D. A. Publishing Association.

2. No person holding an office in, or laboring for, the Association, has any personal pecuniary interest in the Association.

3. No person laboring for the Association receives more than seven dollars a week for his services.

4. Most of those now employed by the Association labored early and late in the Review Office when the friends of the cause were few, for limited wages. And when the circulation of our publications had so far increased that receipts would pay all expenses at usual wages, and the prospect was favorable for a rapid increase of circulation which would give an excess of receipts above expenses, it was then that all connected with the Office plead for the formation of a legal Association, into whose hands the entire publishing department might be placed, while they consent to toil on for only seven dollars per week.

5. Whatever the excess of receipts above expenditures may be, after the Association's debts are paid, the amount will be sent out in publications to assist well-tried and proved missionaries in their labors, at the discretion of the Trustees.

With these facts before the real friends of the cause, who have faith that God has a special work to accomplish by the third message, they have no just grounds of objection to appropriating a portion of the means which God in his providence has entrusted to them to the uses and benefits of the Association. Thus far no salaried agents have been employed to collect means, and to oversee the printing, purchasing, and building. All have been laboring men, for small wages. And it is just that we should have say of the true friends of the cause, that all that has thus far been necessary to collect means was to say that it was wanted, and the next mail has brought it post-paid.

This institution has no use for men who desire to live upon fat salaries. Such would at once embarrass it, discourage its friends abroad, and shut off their liberalities. It must have laboring, ardent men, who look for the heft of their reward in the next world. And while the Association has such men in its employ, to do its work, and look after its interests, and as it is destined to be a mighty engine to move forward the stupendous work of the third message, God's stewards will open their hands wide to supply its present wants.