INFORMATION WANTED by Stephen Nelson Haskell

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 29, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 5

INFORMATION WANTED.

By Stephen Nelson Haskell

BY ELD. S. N. HASKELL.

In the REVIEW of Jan. 8, a plan was suggested by which, during the present quarter, thirteen thousand full-paying subscribers can be obtained for the REVIEW and Good Health. The plan there proposed, if carried out, will not only equalize this labor among our brethren in every part of the field, but prove an invaluable blessing to ministers and T. and M. officers, by giving them an experience in this important branch of the work. It will also be the means of educating others in the work of canvassing for our periodicals.

The value of this experience and the good that would thus be accomplished for our institutions and cause generally, cannot be overestimated. Sixty-five hundred full-paying subscribers for the REVIEW and an equal number for Good Health! Who can estimate the final result?

A faithful record of it all will be made in Heaven, and at the day of Judgment the result will be revealed.

What minister or T. and M. officer cannot, with proper effort, secure the number of subscribers suggested; viz., each minister, ten; each librarian, five; and each district-officer, ten, for both the REVIEW and Good Health? One brother, to my knowledge, has already obtained twenty subscribers for Good Health, and this among those not of our faith. The ministers who attended the T. and M. Institute held at Adam’s Center, N. Y., pledged themselves to furnish the proposed number of subscribers, and to do all in their power to inspire others in the same work. The T. and M. officers also took an active interest in this enterprise. We wish to learn from the ministers and T. and M. officers in different parts of the field how this work is progressing. We trust there are none that have not made a commencement. T. and M. officers should not only obtain subscribers through the members of their various societies, but by personal efforts. The best time for this work is rapidly passing, and those who go about it at once will have the best success.