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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 13, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 3.

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What Shall be Done?

By James White

The Youth's Instructor, at twenty-five cents a year, in scrip, which is worth only from ten to twelve cents in gold or silver, does not pay for itself. Paper costs nearly three times as much as it did three years since, and labor nearly twice as much. To meet this extra expense, something must be done.
We are about to order paper for the Instructor for 1865. It will require three and one-fourth reams each month, at $8 per ream, amounting to $26 a month, or $312 for the year. Three years since, the paper would have cost $2.75 per ream, or $107,25 a year. Here is a difference in the cost of stock, of $204,75 a year. Add to this the extra cost of labor, &c., which is at least $10 per month, or $120 a year; and the amount of expenses of the Instructor for one year now, above what it would have cost before the American war, is $324,75. This is more than the entire cost of stock at present prices of paper.
If the stock should be furnished, twenty-five cents per year would meet the other expenses. How shall this be done? If the price should be raised to fifty cents a year, it would then be in reality no higher than at twenty-five cents before the war. In fact, fifty cents can be obtained as easily now, as twenty-five then.
But the price of the Instructor for the next year will not be raised, only by those who choose to raise it to fifty cents. Let all who would esteem it a pleasure so to do, send fifty cents each. Such will see their names with the money receipted in the Instructor. New subscribers, the poor, and all who choose to pay no more, can have the Instructor for twenty-five cents a year.
Donations from the friends of the Instructor to purchase stock for this little sheet, will be thankfully received. Our liberal Bro. O. Mears, of Bowling Green, Ohio, sends $5 to purchase stock for the Instructor. Those who wish to donate, and those who choose to pay fifty cents a year, will please respond to these remarks, if convenient, so that their responses may reach the Office as soon as December 30th. J. W.