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ZION’S WATCH TOWER

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HERALD OF CHRIST’S PRESENCE.

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PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH.

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TOWER PUBLISHING COMPANY,
“BIBLE HOUSE”
ARCH STREET, ALLEGHENY, PA., U.S.A.

C. T. RUSSELL, EDITOR.

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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE, (INCLUDES ALSO A SUBSCRIPTION TO TWO COPIES OF OLD THEOLOGY TRACTS QUARTERLY)

By Express Order, Postal Money Order, Bank Draft, or Registered Letter. Foreign only by Foreign Money Order.

FREE TO THE LORD’S POOR

N.B.—Those of the interested, who by reason of old age or accidents, or other adversity, are unable to pay, will be supplied FREE, if they will send a Postal Card each December, stating their case and requesting the paper.

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PROVIDING FOR COLPORTEURS’ EXPENSES

During the Colporteurs’ Meetings which followed the regular meetings of the recent Convention, some of the older and more experienced Colporteurs made the suggestion that hereafter all colporteurs be authorized to sell the MILLENNIAL DAWN series of books at Thirty-five cents per volume, or three volumes for One Dollar—explaining to any who might notice and inquire, that the books could be had at Twenty-five cents each if they chose to send to the Allegheny office; but that the Colporteurs are allowed to charge ten cents extra to cover their additional expense connected with delivering the books. With the consent of the office several had tried the higher price plan and the results had been highly satisfactory: they had sold about as many as at Twenty-five cents; that people concede that a book of 350 pages on good paper is cheap at 35 cents—or over 1100 pages for $1.00. As a consequence we have decided on this change.

The object of the suggestion on the part of those proposing the higher price was not money-getting, but a desire to forward the work. While they are able to meet their traveling and living expenses and a little more at twenty-five cents, they well know that many others cannot do so on account of being less successful salesmen, or of having encumbrances in the way of family duties and expenses. Indeed, the plan proposed is that all who can do so shall return to the Lord’s treasury all that can be spared from their actual expenses, that it may assist in the general work of spreading the Truth, to which all of our lives are consecrated.

It is not the thought to attract worldly people into the work. We desire only such as engage in the work as ministers of the gospel, and from the conviction that what they are presenting is the Truth, and that in no other manner can they so fully and faithfully serve the Lord and his people. We do not know of one now in the colporteur work merely as a business: all are doing what they can as unto the Lord; and several who could earn nearly or quite a thousand dollars a year in other occupations, gladly give their all for the Truth.

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RATES ON MILLENNIAL DAWN, PAPER COVERS

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Single copies delivered by colporteurs, 35 cents.
Three ” ” ” ” $1.00.
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Single copies by mail from the office, 25 “
Five (or multiples of five, 10, 20, 40, etc.) copies of any one volume by mail, post-paid to one address, each, … 15 “
Fifty or more copies by express or one hundred or more by freight at colporteur’s charges,. . . . . . . . . . . 12-1/2 “

PRICES IN LEATHERETTE BINDING
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Single copies delivered by colporteurs, 50 cents.
Three ” ” ” ” $1.25
Single copies from TOWER office, 35 “
Five ” (or multiples) of any one volume, each, . . . . 20 “
PRICES IN CLOTH BINDING
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Single copies, retail price, post-paid $1.00.
To TOWER subscribers at wholesale rate, post-paid, . . . . 50 “
To Colporteurs by express, etc., 35 “

The DAWNS in the German language are now under the full control of Brother Zech, and all orders for them should be addressed to—Otto von Zech, Euclid Ave., Allegheny, Pa. Vol. I. same prices as the English. Vol. II. costs more, because of small edition. Retail price, 35 cents; to Colporteurs, 20 cents.

As a result of this arrangement we hope soon to hear of many ready and glad to give all their time to the work. The Master, the Chief Reaper, saith, “He that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto everlasting life.”

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WATCH TOWER BIBLE & TRACT SOCIETY.
“BIBLE HOUSE,” ALLEGHENY, PA.

None but WATCH TOWER subscribers can be recognized as Colporteurs, for two reasons: (1) The DAWNS are special issues of the ZION’S WATCH TOWER, and if mailed to others than subscribers the postage would cost us extra, and (2) those really interested in the DAWNS will surely want the TOWER (the terms of which are liberal enough to suit all), and we seek only such interested ones for Colporteurs or ministers of this gracious gospel.

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— July 15, 1892 —