p. 74 | AN IMPORTANT QUESTION ANSWERED by Stephen N. Haskell

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

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

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION ANSWERED.

By Stephen N. Haskell

BY ELD. S. N. HASKELL.

In Review No. 2, present volume, the statement that we have five hundred and ninety-nine T. and M. librarians was indirectly made, from each of whom five subscribers for the REVIEW and as many for Good Health were called for; but from the General T. and M. Directory, which is supposed to contain the names of all T. and M. officers, it appears that there are not that number of church tract societies. This discrepancy gives rise to a query as to how this number of subscribers shall be made up.

The above mentioned estimate was made from the number of churches reported in the last General Conference summary, upon the supposition that a tract society had been organized in each church. Wherever this is not the case, it is the fault of the minister who organized the church; therefore, we propose, (1.) That every minister who has, within a year, organized a church or churches and neglected to form tract societies in the same, be responsible for the number of subscribers which would have been required of the librarians in these church societies had they been organized, in addition to the number assigned to him as a minister; (2.) That each director who has neglected to visit such churches within the limits of his district, and organize societies in the same, also be responsible for subscribers, upon the same principle. This will give us more than the thirteen thousand subscribers called for.