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SOUTH PLACE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY,
flNSBURY.
REPORT
OF THE
PUBLISHING COMMITTEE.
'
In accordance with the resolution passed at the last annual
meeting a Special Committee was appointed to consider the
best means of securing a wider publicity for the teaching which
all members of South Place Religious Society feel to be so
valuable, and they now submit the following brief Report.
The result of their deliberations has already been made
known, not only by circular, but still more effectually by the
actual publication of “ Lessons for the Day,” and it only remains
to state what measure of success has attended the enterprise.
In response to the appeal which was made a guarantee fund of
^267 was subscribed, of which one-fourth has been paid, and
a second instalment of like amount will shortly be called up
the greater part of the first having been expended in pre
liminary advertising and printing. 5,000 copies of No. 1 were
printed, of which about 1,000 were distributed gratuitously by
the Committee ; the remainder were soon all disposed of, and
a second edition was printed, so that complete sets might be
made up. In order to prevent the additional expense thus
involved, a larger number has been printed than would suffice
to meet the immediate weekly demand, which of course leaves
a considerable stock on hand, and entails an outlay for which
there is no immediate return. About 36,000, however, of the
first 13 numbers have been actually sold, and the average
weekly sale is about 2,500. This result is by no means dis
couraging, considering that scarcely anything has been spent in
advertising since October, and the comparatively select class
who can be expected to purchase such a periodical. There
�have been many expressions, both in the press and privately,
of the high estimation in which the “Lessons” are. held by
those under whose notice they have come, and it may fairly be
hoped that a further continued effort to make their existence
known amongst earnest-minded liberals will make the enter
prise self-supporting. The present returns are very nearly
sufficient to meet the expense of printing and publishing, and
even if no great improvement should be attained during the
coming year, your Committee believe that the Subscribers to
the Guarantee Fund, or the members at large, will feel that the
amount required for author’s remuneration is very usefully
expended in diffusing generally the intellectual and moral
advantages which have hitherto been restricted to South Place.
In addition to the direct moral influence thus exerted, the
publicity given to our services can hardly fail to produce a
favorable effect on the position of the Society, and it has in
fact been already observed that an unusually large number of
strangers have visited the Chapel during the last three
months;
It is hoped that the measures taken will meet with the
approval of the members, and that those who have not yet
taken an active part in this most useful portion of the Society’s
work, will now do so, either by adding their names to' the
Guarantee Fund, or by exerting themselves (as many have
already most usefully done) to promote the circulation of the
“ Lessons for the Day.” The Committee are most anxious not
to have to make repeated appeals for subscriptions, and as a
weekly sale of 5,000 would make the work self-supporting,
they trust that a special effort will be made in this direction
during the coming year.
January 23rd, 1883.
�Sold and distributed
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