Donations for Stock by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 20, 1864

Donations for Stock.

By James White

Donations already received to purchase stock amount to $1109.46. The amount of stock for books purchased is $2500. Those who esteem it a pleasure to donate till this sum is made up, will have an opportunity. The object of this is to enable the Association to furnish books, pamphlets, and tracts at old prices.

We have also put into the cellar, paper for the Review and Herald, to the amount of $3883. We have not asked for donations to pay for this. We have only asked those who are able and choose so to do, to send three dollars a year instead of the regular price.

The readers of the Review are aware that four dollars will not go further in printing now, than two dollars would before the war. For instance. We pay thirty cents a pound for book paper that we then bought for eleven cents, and twenty-five cents for paper for the Review which, before the war, could have been bought for nine cents a pound.

But the able and the willing are invited to pay only $3,00 a year for the Review. Most of its readers will choose to do this. Therefore with willing minds and ready hands there will be no lack. Our people are alive, and awake to any reasonable call, and there never has been a time when the business of the Association could be done more efficiently to advance the cause of truth than now. We do not ask for the money of the poor or the stingy. But free will offerings are wanted from the able and the willing to meet present indebtedness. J. W.