p. 124 | Something New by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1862

Something New.

By Editor

OUR style of mailing this week is new to many of the readers of the Review. It is something new, at least in this Office. We will here point out some of its valuable advantages.

1. By it each subscriber knows every week just how his or her account stands, which must be gratifying to those whose religious principles have sufficient influence over their conduct in life to lead them to promptly pay in advance, according to the terms of the Review.

2. By it the unpleasant job of printing, filling out, and sending, common bills of indebtedness, is dispensed with, as every week each delinquent has, exposed on the margin of his or her paper, a very significant bill of their delinquency, showing how far they are behind; while the prompt and true friends of the cause have exhibited on the margin of their papers every week the Vol. and No. to which they have paid, showing how far they have paid in advance.

3. By it those to whom the Review is sent free, or at half price, are notified of the fact every week.

4. Printed lists of subscribers, showing how each one's account stands, can be furnished to the officers of the different churches to enable them to ascertain who should have the Review at half price, and report to the Office, and how much to take from their treasuries to pay for those half-price subscribers who cannot themselves pay. And when advisable, ministers who travel and hold Conferences can have lists of whole States to assist them in collecting, and making out a report of those who among the scattered ones should have the Review free, or at half price.

It is expected that every church will pay the one-half price of all its members who cannot themselves pay, and that the scattered ones of this class will be paid, either by those who order the paper for them, or by donations from the liberal for the Review to the worthy poor. In this case the free list should be very small, not exceeding one hundred.

Several who were marked on the books half price, are put at full price, and some who were marked free, are put at half price. A few who were far behind, we have marked as paid to Vol. xviii, No. 1, the point of time when the Office books passed from us to the Association. We expect some changes will be made, and request all who think their circumstances demand that their account should be changed to half price, to notify the officers of their church without delay. The scattered ones will please state their claims for half price or free to some one of our acknowledged preachers with whom they are acquainted. If they are separated from churches, and are not acquainted with any of our preachers, they will please send their claims without delay to the Office.

The present autumn is a favorable time for delinquents to square up, and pay the next volume in advance. We design to have a clean list as soon as possible, and give this timely notice that at the close of the present volume, only ten weeks distant, we shall strike from the lists the names of all who owe for one volume or more, unless we hear from them. Those who wish a few weeks' more time can be accommodated by sending a request in season.

EXPLANATIONS.

The letters and figures at the right hand of the printed name show the volume and number to which you have paid. The fraction ½ indicates half price. The letters fr show that the paper is sent free of charge. The star shows that the paper is ordered and paid for by another.

It can hardly be expected that in transcribing so many names with the accounts, no mistakes should occur. All errors will be promptly corrected.