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TO THE MINISTERS OF NEBRASKA

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

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TO THE MINISTERS OF NEBRASKA.

By CHAS. L. BOYD; HENRY SHULTZ; GEO. B. STARR

This article of appeal is written to you in reference to our uniting our interests more closely with those of the tract society in the matter of book sales. The article by Bro. Haskell in REVIEW of Jan. 1, under the heading, “Good, Better, Best,” presents, in our judgment, the best plan yet set before us; viz., that of letting the tract society furnish each minister or licentiate with a supply of our publications, he to report quarterly, and turn over all money to the society, thus giving the society the benefit of all the profits. This will enable all who are working under license, and are scant of means, to carry a full supply of our publications; besides, as we firmly believe, it will give confidence to us all, as we offer our works to the people, to labor harder to make sales; for we shall then work with the consciousness that it is not in our own interest. All our T. and M. officers work without salaries. If our work as ministers is done properly, the Conference is ready to pay us for it, as best they can from their treasury.
We believe the plan of furnishing ministers with publications at wholesale rates, has in the past separated, more or less, the interests of the ministers and the society, by the personal interest that would naturally arise. The interests of the society should have the first place in our hearts. And the good results reported from the distribution of reading matter, the increasing demand for it, and the fact that our blessed Lord is soon coming with the reward for unselfish labor, all call upon us to set our T. and M. workers a good example in this matter. We want to hear from all our preaching brethren on this subject. Read again the article referred to, and report to the President of our Conference, Chas. L. Boyd, at Nebraska City, Neb. If this plan is adopted by our State, we expect the same result as reported by New York, i. e., three times as many publications sold as during any previous year.
CHAS. L. BOYD, } Conf. HENRY SHULTZ, } Com. GEO. B. STARR, } Com.