Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-06-12
How they get Newspaper Subscribers in
Vtah,


In the Deseret Ne,cs We find a sermon
delivered in tho Tabernacle at Salt Lake
City by President Kimball on Sunday,
March Is, 1857, devoted manly to increas-
ing the subscription list of the NeVs. He
gives advice, which even the gentiles might
profit by. He advises, yea commands ev-
cry family to take at least one copy of the
MeUs. Hc says:
presume that there are from twelve to
twenty thousand families in this Territory,
and l really know of no reason why every
family should not take, read and pay for
one copy of the News. for some large fami-
lies now take from two to six copies. And
/ am all the moro surprised at the slackness
of the people in this matter, from the fact
that the manner Of payment is so easy, ev-
cry kind of article of any real value being
received, even to "hemlock slabs after har-
vest"
He gives the agents for tho News lee
ture for receiving cash subscriptions which
they retain, paying the Office in something
else. Kimball brought his congregation
right to the mark in this wise. He said:
/ will call vote, and want every man
in this congregation, who takes the "News,"
to manifest it by raising his right hand, for
| wish to show you what proportion take
the paper. The subscribers present raised
their hands There is not more than one
quarter of this congregation that take the
Deserct News, and that too the only paper
} printed in the mountains, and one of the
most useful and interesting papers that ev-
er was published.
Kimball goes in too for preserving files Of
the Neacs and relics in general. Whether
he will ever see any old newspapers which
. have the virtues which he attaches to relics
is questionable, but he is right in saying
that newspaper files become valuable as they
become old. On relics Kimball discourse.
thus:
How much would you give for even &
cane that Father Abraham had used ? or &
coat or ring that the Savior had worn p
The rough oak boxes in which the bodies
Of Joseph and Hyrum were brought from
Carthage, were made into canes and Other
articles. ! have cane ilade from the
plank of ono of those boxes, so has Br. Brig
ham and a great many others, and we prizc
@ them highly and estem them a great bless
> ing. want to carefully preserve my cane
= and when ] am done with it here shal
: hand down to my heir, with instructions t.
him to do the same. And the day vii
It come when there will be multitudes VIII
: will be healed and blessed through the in
= lstrumentality of those canes, and the devi
cannot overcome those who have them, il
consequence of their faith and confidence il
q the virtues connected with them.
n In England, when not in situation t
G, 90, have blessed my handkerchief an
le asked God to sanctify it and fill it with lif
i and power, and sent it to the sick and hur
: dreds have been healed by it; in like man
u ner have sent my cane. DR.. Richard
n used to lay his old black cano on a person
d head, and that person has been healed thrc
: its instrumentality by the power Of God
have known Joseph, hundreds of times
= send his handkerchief to the sick and the
G have been healed. There arc persons j
Is this congregation who have been healed b
]. throwing my old cloak on their beds.
. To teturn to the Deseret Meas II hav
alluded to few items to show you the at
~ vantages and blessings Of that paper, asid
n from its great present benefit if you wi
C take care of it and hand it down to you
h children and they to theirs, and so on, III
: I'll you SEQ it in the resurrection. Sue
: publications are not going to be burned u
4, 70 according to my faith they will go into I'll
III resurrection.