p. 40 | Blanks! Blanks! by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 28, 1864

Blanks! Blanks!

By James White

THE objects of the blanks in this week's paper are as follows:

1. To call attention to books and articles for sale at this Office, to suggest the economical way of obtaining them by express, and to furnish a blank, for those to fill who wish to order these things.

2. To furnish on the other side of the leaf a blank for those to fill, and return to this Office who owe for the Review and Instructor, and for all to use who can and will obtain new subscribers.

3. To give rules which we hope every correspondent will follow in writng to this Office.

The Trustees decide on carrying out the advance-pay system. It is absolutely necessary these times. There are near one hundred subscribers who have not paid up to Vol. XXII, which we designed to drop this week. But we have decided to wait two weeks longer, and give them time to receive the blanks, and return them with the amount of their past indebtedness, and advance-pay for two or three volumes. Several who have had their names dropped send in a five-dollar green-back. This is right. They should have the pleasure of being ahead half of the time.

Delinquents may depend upon it that we are after them, and in two weeks a host of them will be slain unless they haste to pay up. Let all delinquents send something, and we will give them as much of past indebtedness as they can in conscience ask for. We hope these blanks will soon be returned by all who should use them, bringing at least $2,000 due from delinquents, and 1,000 new subscribers for the Review, and as many more for the Instructor. J. W.