Editor’s Table: Missionary Rate for the Era

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the result of this effort will be the permanent enlargement of the Era.

MISSIONARY RATE FOR THE ERA.

The management have decided to make a missionary rate for the Era of one dollar per annum.

Today there are between twelve and fourteen hundred elders in various missionary fields, the greater number of whom are members of mutual improvement associations. We desire to keep them in touch with the trend of improvement work at home, and also render them assistance in expounding the gospel to the people among whom they labor. Both of these objects can be accomplished by placing the Era at a price within the reach of the elders on missions and their friends ; and as in every number there will be expositions of one or more doctrines of our faith, they cannot well afford to do without it.

From the commencement it has been announced that the Era would be an advocate and defender of the faith, and we desire that it should enter upon this part of its mission at once, and be given as wide a circulation as possible. We therefore say to our brethren abroad, and those laboring in the various states of the American union, that if they will send us their address and one dollar, the Era will be sent to them for one year. We say the same to the friends of our missionaries who may desire to aid them in spreading abroad a knowledge of God's great latter-day work. Send us the address of your missionary friends, with one dollar, and we will send them the Era for a year. Or if you have friends abroad, to whom you desire to send the Era, we will send it on the same terms as to the missionaries. Here is an opportunity for hundreds of saints to aid in the work of spreading abroad a knowledge of the gospel. Will they avail themselves of it? The Era upon these terms is very far below the cost of its production, but in the interest of the members of improvement associations absent on missions, and out of a desire to extend the usefulness of the im-