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NOTES AND NEWS less than 40 pages in any month. We shall thus supply, during the year, about 320 pages of good readable matter to our subscribers. During the last 30 years, the usual size of an issue of the Jain Gazette for any one month, has been 24 pages, and the total number of pages in a year have only occasionally exceeded 300.
The Jain Gazette has, however, come here starving and penniless. Its publication has been undertaken with a hope that persons, professing Jainism, who can read and understand English, will consider it their first and foremost religious duty, a duty as sacred as any of the daily duties of a Shravak, to support the Jain Gazette by becoming a subscriber to it, and contributing half a pice per day for its support; and this regardless of any sectarian considerations-for this is the only monthly journal in the whole of the Jain Community which is edited in English, and which finds a welcome in England, Germany, France, America, and Australia.
And if this hope is realized, as there is every reason to believe, the Jain Gazette will gather strength, month after month and be a stalwart propagator of Jainism far and wide, and will be enabled to serve not only the community, but the humanity at large, as its capacities progress, bimonthly, weekly, and daily.
The subscribers are requested to send Rs. 3/subscription by M. O. and to persuade every friend and relation to send his or her subscription to the Manager, Jain Gazette, Mąlhipur-Saharanpur.
