EVEN UP, PLEASE by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, December 23, 1884

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 61, No. 51

EVEN UP, PLEASE.

By Editor

WHEN the reader looks over the “General Summary of Labor” of the T. and M. societies, given in this number, he will see some figures which will, or ought to, throw him into profound thought; and if in some cases the perspiration should start a little it would not perhaps be out of place. We refer to those columns which show the average number of periodicals taken to each member in the different Conferences.

Please look at the column where the poor REVIEW comes in for its share, and note the fact that there are only two Conferences where over half a REVIEW is taken to each member; that is, in those Conferences which are doing the best by this paper, there are about two members to every copy of the REVIEW which comes within their boundaries; and in some Conferences there is less than one-seventh of a REVIEW to each member; or in other words, there is one REVIEW to about seven members; whereas of other periodicals there are in some instances several copies to each member. The reader can compare the figures for himself. We do not say that the number of other papers taken should be any less; but we venture to ask if that of the REVIEW should not be more.