Whereas, The subject of spiritual gifts is one of importance, and such works as the Spirit of Prophecy, and the Testimonies should be in the hands of all our brethren, therefore GOP 390.3
Resolved, That we recommend the various tract societies to make a special effort to place them in the library of each church, and in the hands of scattered brethren, and that they encourage the reading of them. And further GOP 390.4
Resolved, That where these works are used as above stated, we offer them at one-half the retail price, and that the difference between this and the regular wholesale price be paid from the fund raised for circulating these works, said fund to be increased from $1000, as at first started, to $5000. 7“Seventeenth Annual Session of the General Conference of S. D. Adventists,” RH, Oct. 24, 1878, 129. GOP 390.5