Another Year

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     With this issue we are launched into our twenty-fourth year of publication of Mission Messenger. Although it now costs some $4000.00 per year to print and distribute the paper we close the passing year with all debts paid. This is due not so much to an increase in subscriptions (although our circulation has increased to its highest level) but to the willingness of brethren to share regularly in the crusade in which we are engaged. There are a few who send each month to bear the burden with us. They believe in the thing that we are trying to do and they are unwilling to allow us to stagger under the heavy load without lending a hand. To them we are indebted beyond our power to express. No one ever receives a cent from the paper for work done in connection with it. In twenty-three years Nell and myself have scrupulously avoided, even when in need, taking anything from the subscription fund for our own use. Every penny has gone toward printing and mailing the message which now reaches many countries.

     Great things are planned for 1962 and we trust that you will help us share them with others by sending in a list of subscribers at once. The subscription list could be increased in every community if just one person in each community really cared enough to encourage it consistently. The price will remain at $1.00 per year. Should you care to have extra copies of this issue you may secure them at the rate of ten for one dollar. Why not secure them and share them with your brethren?