The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-11-04
To the Preachers of the Tennessee Confer
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ence, and all Others Whom It
Nay Concern.
Allow me, brethren, to remind
you of the resolution we adopted al
the recent session of the conference
at GAINESVILLE that "we would exert
ourselves to extend the circulation
of the Issue, the temperance paper
published at Nashville, Tenn, and
aid tin all its grand work by any
and all proper means in our power"
There was great propriety in
such action by the conference, and
as preachers we can do a work for
that paper which is imperatively
needed. To reach the masses of
the people, its circulation must be
increased tenfold. Unless it reach
the people we cannot succeed in
carrying prohibition before the PEG
pie. Special reduction is made in
the price for a limited time IN order
to push its circulation at once to a
number which will bring the paper
in general contact with the people.
If every preacher will exert himself
he can send in a large list. Every
subscription you get will be equiva-
lent to your preaching n sermon Of
peculiar power and earnes ness
once every week to that person as
long as he subscribes for it. Sup
pose you get hundred yearly sub
scribers and if every paper is read
by two other persons besides the
one subscribing, which is a low al
lowance, then you will for twelve
months to come preach weekly to
congregation of three hundred souls
on one of the most momentous NOR
al questions now before the people
Of the land. Can we stand still
with such opportunities before us?
Shall we allow the Issue" to Ian
guish with about two thousand
subscribers in Tennessee when it
should have fifty thousand? OF its
5000 circulation, less than half are
taken in Tennessee, on whose soil
the hot conflict between rum and
righteousness is being waged.
Brethren, let us come TO the rescue
and work as we voted at con ference,
and by working in this matter we
can double our congregations,
preaching to as many people every
Thursday as we do on Sunday.
The cause of right appeals to US
to help. The future good of our
own growing little children around
our feet plead to US for activity.
The present and future protection
of our congregations from the mon
ster curse of rum and ruin appeal
to US to use the peculiar opportuni-
ties in ouT power as pastors to help
increase the circulation of that pa
per.
We cannot confer a better or
more timely boon on suffering hu-
manity-or aid in a more substan-
tial and effective way in the awful
struggle of the cause of God and |
home and woman against their
worst foe, than by coming forward
promptly at this peculiar crisis in
the struggle and help push the cir
culation of the Issue Bring the
matter before your congregation
and take subscription. Enlist earn
est layn.en to help you, and above
all, get the good women to help you
canvass your entire charge, and |
strive to thus scatter the Issue
weekly among your people and be |
assured that every copy thus put
into the homes of your people will |
be a manly and effectual blow
against the gigantic evil of our age.
The Issue is not only temperance
paper, but it is eminently moral
and religious, and the children and |
older people will be made better by |
reading IL.
Brethren, God will smile on this |
work and unborn ages and genera
tions, will rise up and bless your
memory for thus helping in con-
quering this lightning curse of the
ages. We must act promptly and |
decisively. The time is short. We |
must work at once aud earnestly. |
The legislature convenes this win
ter which we hope will submit the
amendment to a popular vote, and
before 1t meets we must get the pa
per before the people that it may
10 its grand work of educating and
stirring the conscience of the mass
es to vote for the amendment and
against run, The work Of the next
thirty days will determine largely
The result.
If the good people come up man
fully to the support of the paper in
5he next month, there is cheering
nope. If not, ominous clouds
threaten US. Shall we try to bring
,he paper before the people? Help
0rethren,a promptly and vigorously,
and may God bless you in the noble
endeayor. B. f. HAYNES.