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SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS
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ALLEGHENY (NORTH PITTSBURG), PA., U.S.A.

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INCLUDES A SUBSCRIPTION TO “THE OLD THEOLOGY TRACTS”—QUARTERLY.
MONEY MAY BE SENT BY EXPRESS, N.Y. DRAFT, MONEY ORDER,
OR REGISTERED. FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES BY FOREIGN
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Those of the interested, who by reason of old age or accident, or other adversity are unable to pay for the TOWER will be supplied FREE, if they will send a Postal Card each December, stating their case and requesting the paper.

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HOW SOME DO AND OTHERS MAY SERVE

Many who are tied down by family duties, or other hindrances, so that they cannot go forth giving all their time and strength in the spread of the truth, ask us to suggest methods of service.

You already know of the wonderful privilege you have in the “Silent Ministry” of tract distribution, in which all to a greater or less extent can engage;—at hotels, depots, conventions, on Circus-day in small towns, and at a little distance from churches on Sundays. To have free, for the asking, all the tracts you can judiciously use, is a rare privilege; and to have tracts which present the truth, is another rare privilege.

You already know what opportunities for testifying to the real “second blessing” are afforded by the various “Prayer Meetings,” “Class Meetings,” “Christian Endeavor Meetings;” and how “a word in season” and the gift of a tract or loan of a DAWN has helped many a poor sheep “out of darkness into the marvelous light” of God’s truth.

But now we call to your attention two other methods of service.

(1) Every now and then some of the “blind leaders of the blind,” fearing that some of their followers may see the light of the Millennial Dawn, publish in their town paper an attack upon it. What they cannot refute, they feel free to slander and misrepresent, or else to treat sarcastically. It does not require great skill to show their misrepresentations, point out their sophistry, and in a few words tell how much your own heart has been blessed, and your own life made happier and holier, by the truth, and to commend it to others;—and then ask the same Editor to publish your reply. Offer to loan the DAWN to whoever will read it, as the surest way to convince them that its teachings have been misrepresented. Send us a marked copy of the paper containing your article, and the addresses of all who apply for the book on loan in reply to your offer.

(2) Another excellent method is to make note of addresses of specially good, reverent, honest people and write to them of your hope that they like yourself are God’s children and truth-seekers; ask whether they have ever read The Plan of the Ages; tell them what assistance it has rendered you, in the study of God’s Word and plan; mention its low price, and offer to loan it to them if they are not situated so that they can purchase it; and enclose one tract in your letter, selected for being most in harmony with their article which you commend. If any points in their article must be criticised, do it as gently as possible.

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EPISCOPALEANS AND SALOONS

The Anglican Synod which closed its session in Toronto, Canada, June 18, has control of certain property which it leases for the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Some objected to this being longer continued and the matter was put to a vote in which the majority decided that the practice be continued, and it is continued.

During the discussion, as reported in the secular press, the “Hon. S. H. Blake declared that God’s church should not do the devil’s business. Such a policy defeats its own objects. The church ought not to take the devil into partnership and defend liquor licenses on the miserably low ground of dollars and cents.”

A London journal says that for eighteen years the Rev. Osbert Mordaunt, a Church of England clergyman, has been the proprietor of a “public house” at Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire. He keeps a salaried manager to attend to the liquor business, and devotes the profits to local improvements.

What think you is the Lord’s judgment of such business done in his name and for his glory?

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— August 15, 1895 —