SPECIAL NOTICE by Stephen N. Haskell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 2, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 48

SPECIAL NOTICE.

By Stephen N. Haskell

It will be noticed in last week’s REVIEW, and also in this, that special arrangements have been made with the REVIEW AND HERALD and Signs Offices to make a combined offer with the Signs and “Sunshine.” Special rates have been made with the REVIEW Office on “Sunshine,” to be used only for this purpose.

In order to secure the prices which these Offices have made, the International Society purchases them in lots of not less than ten thousand. For this number the International Society pays cash. It then sells them to the different tract societies in such quantities as they can use. There is no tract society, unless it be those in the South, such as Tennessee, Virginia, or Kentucky, that cannot use from a thousand upward; and it is expected that none of these societies will use a single copy without placing the Signs of the Times with it; that is, if a society takes one thousand “Sunshine” at the reduced rates now offered, it will be expected to send from its State depository, or to order from the Signs Office, a copy of the Signs for at least three months to each subscriber; so that when the one thousand “Sunshine” are sold, the Signs will be visiting as many different families.

Business should be done through the State society, which has the privilege of forwarding the names to the Signs Office, the papers being sent directly from there. But we think it better for each tract society to take the Signs in large clubs from the Signs Office, and furnish them to the subscribers themselves.

The object of this notice is simply to call attention to the fact that should the tract societies use the “Sunshine at Home” alone, without the Signs, they forfeit the right of obtaining “Sunshine” at the rates now offered. We have assured the Publishing Association that not a single copy should be used without the Signs going with it. The canvassers sell “Sunshine” at regular rates unless the subscription for the Signs is taken for a longer term than three months. The canvasser receives the same per cent on “Sunshine” as formerly, so there can be no excuse for not furnishing the Signs of the Times with it for at least three months. Six months would be far better, and the increase in price is but a trifle. Particulars on these points will be given in the circular. We shall expect a sale of ten thousand before the holidays are over.

Those tract societies wishing less than one thousand copies of “Sunshine,” who have not arranged with me at Battle Creek, will please write me at once at South Lancaster, as it is the International Society which furnishes these books to the tract societies. The money should all be sent to the REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich., and the books will be shipped from there. They must be ordered at once, in order to be delivered to subscribers in time for the holidays. The Signs should in no case be sent to subscribers until after the book has been delivered. We would suggest that it would be well to commence the subscription with the first number of the next volume.

S. N. HASKELL.