Editor’s Table: The Enlargement of the Era

EDITOR'S TABLE,

THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE ERA.

This number of the Era is sixteen pages larger than the first 'issue. It is the desire of the Era's management and its editors that this enlargement shall be permanent. It is necessary in order that the magazine may have space sufficient for the accomplishment of its work. With the enlargement made permanent we shall have space for a greater variety of matter and can still continue to treat the great themes connected with the work of which the Era is the organ. Shall the enlargement of the Era be permanent? That question altogether depends upon the owners of this magazine? Who are they? Its patrons. The members of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations. If earnest work is undertaken by the offiers and members of our associations, during the next month, and the present subscription list of the Era sufficiently increased, it can be done. It is not by any means an impossible task. It can be done by a little extra effort on the part of its owners. Will you do it? We believe you will. Think what this will mean to our present subscribers. It means the addition of 176 pages to the volume they have subscribed for. It will make the Era a handsome volume of 944 pages instead of 768 pages; and with the new Manual added, which goes with the Era, as a supplement, it would make a volume of 1039 pages. But the chief advantage from the enlargement would be increased variety of matter.

We ask the owers of the magazine to think over the advantages of this proposition; and then let each one make an effort to secure another subscriber, and we are satisfied that