A Model Subscriber

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 26 May 1904, Page 1

A Model Subscriber

One of the most refreshing communications that we have received for v many a day comes from a valued subscriber, Mr. Andrew Casey, of Hamilton, Waikato. Mr. Casey has been a reader of the ' Tablet ' almost from its first issue. Writing in reference to the recent reduction in the prepaid rate of subscription, he says : ' I don't think that any Catholic will ever grudge the " Tablet " a yearly subscription of 25s and pay it cheerfully. At all events I will not. I will willingly continue to pay the old rate, arid I get good value for my money. I enclose £5 ss, which you will kindly credit me with at the old rate, namely, * 25s a year.' Mr. Casey's subscription is now paid in advance for several years. We thank him for his staunch and practical sympathy with and appreciation of our work, Those who conduct Catholic journals have to face much and not infrequent discouragement. It is a work that requires a brave heart and a thick skin and a resolute will to try to ' escape the uphill by never turning back I .' Few realise better than Catholic journalists how kind words and deeds are sweet draughts in the cup of life — like a ' concert of rn/usic in a banquet o£ wine.'