p. 4 | THE TIME TO WORK by William C. White

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · December 11, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 24

THE TIME TO WORK.

By William C. White

The present month is without doubt the best time in the year for our tract and missionary societies to work. The past season was generally a prosperous one for farmers, and there is less of the usual cry of “hard times” than there has been, so that not only is this the best season of the year for booksellers, canvassers, and agents, but this year is more favorable for this work than either of the last three years has been.

There are thousands of families where our papers should be read, that could be induced to subscribe for one or more of them if our brethren and sisters would introduce these papers, bearing precious truths, before the people have subscribed for other papers.

The recent General Conference has occupied the time and thoughts of so many of our leading workers that we are a month late in issuing the Supplement and starting the canvass. But if our T. and M. officers and members will begin at once, very much can be done in a few weeks. The REVIEW AND HERALD, Signs of the Times, Good Health, Youth’s Instructor, Advent Tidende, Advent Herald, and Stimme der Wahrheit, should each receive attention from those best qualified to work for them.

The REVIEW will continue to be our denominational paper, and should be read by every S. D. Adventist. Price, $2.00 per year, with “Way of Life” as premium to new subscribers.

The Signs of the Times will be our pioneer paper for missionary distribution. Price, $2.00 per year, with “Way of Life” as premium to new subscribers. In clubs of ten or more copies for missionary use, $1.20 each copy per year.

Good Health should be introduced into twenty thousand families before March first. Its usefulness in the past is abundantly attested by those who have read it, many of whom would not dispense with it for ten times its cost.

During the coming year each number will contain a large amount of valuable and interesting matter on the subjects of Health, Temperance, Popular Science, General Literature, and other topics of interest. The practical information in its pages on sanitary science, public and domestic hygiene, and topics of kindred nature, gives it a scope and field of usefulness peculiar to itself, and unoccupied by any other journal.

An illustrated article on practical hygiene, or some other topic of general interest, will appear in each number, as a new and permanent feature of the journal in the future. In addition to this, the department of Questions and Answers, which has contributed so much to the success of the journal in the past, will be revived in a practically useful form, and made more valuable than ever before. Notwithstanding the increased value to the reader, and the additional expense to the publishers, the same liberal offers made to old and new subscribers for 1879 are renewed for 1880, with some new and magnificent offers in addition. For particulars read last cover page, the offers on page 382, and the club list, in Good Health for December.

The same liberal terms are offered to canvassers who obtain over twenty subscribers for Good Health for 1880 as were given in 1879, and in addition to this a magnificent list of valuable prizes is offered to those who can only canvass their neighborhoods, and thus get from three to twenty subscribers. We have space for only a few of these offers. For full list, see list of prizes in December number of Good Health.

We offer to those obtaining new subscribers for Good Health at $1.00 per year without premium, and $1.25 per year with Household Manual as premium, the following prizes:

For THREE NEW SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the following: One year’s subscription to GOOD HEALTH .... $1 00 Young Man’s Counselor ........................ 1 00 Young Woman’s Counselor ...................... 1 00 Or any $1.00 book published by GOOD HEALTH or Review and Herald Publishing Companies.

For EIGHT NEW SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the following: Plain Facts for Old and Young (enlarged edition, 8vo, with chapter for Boys and Girls) .... $3 25 Smith’s Bible Dictionary ........................ 3 00 Josephus’ Works (Porter & Coates’ edition) ....... 3 00 The People’s Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary (cloth) .... 3 50

For TWELVE NEW SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the following: Gibbon’s Rome (5 volumes) ........................ $5 00 D’Aubigne’s History of the Reformation ............ 5 00 Fireside Encyclopedia of Poetry (1000 royal octavo pages, gilt edge, elegantly bound in gold and black) .... 5 00 Oxford S. S. Teacher’s Bible, No. 711 ............. 5 00 Patent Lithograph (Packet Note size) .............. 5 00 Macaulay’s History of England (5 volumes) ......... 6 00 Illustrated Family Bible, containing the Apocrypha, Bible Dictionary, Concordance, Comprehensive Notes, etc., etc. .... 5 75

For TWENTY NEW SUBSCRIBERS, choice of the following: Oxford S. S. Teacher’s Bible, No. 715, with improved Index .... $9 50 Illustrated Quarto Family Bible ............... 10 00 Oxford S. S. Teacher’s Bible, No. 716 ............ 10 25 Letter Copying Press, with Copying Book, Rubber Pads, Brush, and Water Bowl, all complete .... 10 00

The Youth’s Instructor can be introduced into thousands of families by a prompt effort on the part of our canvassers, ladies, and young people. Even children have canvassed for the Instructor with good success.

There will be two editions of the YOUTH’S INSTRUCTOR for 1880:— 1. The Monthly Edition, 8 pages. Price, 50 cents. 2. The Weekly Edition (with Sabbath-school Department), 4 pages. Price, 75 cts.

The “Child’s Poems” will be given as a premium to each new subscriber for either edition at the above prices. Those who have taken either edition and change to the other, are not new subscribers.

LIST OF PRIZES.

If you will send us six new subscribers for the INSTRUCTOR, Monthly or Weekly, or both, we will send you your choice of Sunshine Series for Little Ones, Song Anchor, or one of the three volumes of Golden Grains: Vol. 1, The Hard Way; Vol. 2, The School-Boy’s Dinner; Vol. 3, The Growing Tommy.

For ten new subscribers, your choice of Vols. 1, 2, or 3, of Sabbath Readings; or the Game of Life.

For fifteen new subscribers, your choice of The Life of Captain Joseph Bates, Thrilling Life Sketches, or the Bible Atlas and Gazetteer.

For twenty new subscribers, your choice of No. 7 Old Testament Map of Palestine, or No. 9 New Testament Map of Palestine, size 42x28 inches, or Cruden’s Concordance, the Bible Dictionary, or Bound Volume of Weekly INSTRUCTOR for 1879.

For thirty new subscribers, your choice between one of the Double Sheet Maps of Palestine, size 58x41 inches; No. 6 Old Testament Palestine; No. 8 New Testament Palestine, or the “Bird’s Eye View of Palestine,” a beautiful chart of the Holy Land.

For fifty new subscribers, your choice of a Nonpareil Oxford Teacher’s Bible, with Index, Concordance, and Maps (an entirely new edition), size, 4½x7x1¾ inches; or Cloth Map No. 5, the Peninsula of Mt. Sinai, illustrating the wanderings of the Israelites in their journey from Egypt to Canaan.

Librarians, and S. S. officers should encourage those young people to canvass who will have a good influence wherever they go and who are most likely to succeed. In some places several of the S. S. scholars may join together and earn a map for the school.

We have mailed to the secretary of each State T. and M. Society packages of the agent’s subscription books, in which the name and address of each subscriber is to be taken, subscription blanks on which to send in the names to the Office, and instructions how to canvass. These, with the premium book as sample, constitute a complete outfit. Those wishing to canvass who have the premium will be furnished with the remainder of the outfit free on application to the Office or to the T. and M. officers. The premium can be obtained from the T. and M. Society or from the Office, by mail, for thirty cents.

If this is pushed before the holidays are over, thousands of subscribers can be obtained.

The Advent Tidende is now published as an eight-page semi-monthly, size 21½ by 30 inches, a little smaller than the REVIEW. It is a neat-looking and ably conducted paper, intended as a pioneer sheet for the Danish-Norwegian people of Europe and America. Terms to American subscribers, $1.00 per year. To new subscribers the Way of Life will be given as a premium, for $1.25. In clubs of ten or more copies to one address for missionary distribution, 60 cents per year for each copy. To European subscribers, $1.25; with Way of Life to new subscribers, $1.50.

The Svensk Advent Harold will be changed somewhat in form and name. Its title will be Advent Harolden. It will be a sixteen-page monthly, printed on heavy tinted paper, without covers; size of page, 7½x10½ inches; size of whole sheet, 30x42 inches. It will be stitched and trimmed, and the tinted paper will make it so neat in appearance that its old friends will scarcely miss the cover. It will contain three-fourths as much reading as it does now, and the price will be reduced in proportion. Terms to American subscribers, 75 cents per year; to new subscribers, with the Way of Life as a premium, $1.00; to European subscribers $1.00 per year; with Way of Life to new subscribers, $1.25.

The Stimme der Wahrheit, the last, though by no means the least important of our papers, will hereafter be issued monthly, eight pages the size of Advent Tidende. Price to American subscribers, 50 cents a year. In clubs of ten or more to one address, for missionary distribution, 30 cents a year per copy. To European subscribers, 75 cents a year.

We hope our brethren of other nationalities will appreciate the liberal terms on which these last three papers are offered, and that they, with our American brethren and tract societies in those parts of our country where there are many who speak the German, Danish, and Swedish, will give these papers a very wide circulation.

W. C. WHITE.