p. 156 | CANADA by R. S. Owen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 10, 1885.

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 10. Whole No. 1605.

CANADA

By R. S. Owen

PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.—The work is still onward here. Since my last report eight persons have been received into the church at South Stukely. We are having a very prosperous church school at this place, which has been in session about four months, with an average attendance of twenty scholars. All the pupils have taken a deep interest in the religious exercises of the school, and some have taken a new start in the Christian life. I have been engaged in holding meetings and in doing missionary work. Of late I have been trying to encourage some of our young men to engage in canvassing for “Sunshine” with the Signs; and to accomplish this I have gone with them. I believe the plan has met the approval of God; and I have become more than ever impressed with the importance of this kind of missionary work. During the last eight-days’ canvass, I took seventy orders for “Sunshine” with the Signs for three months and held one meeting.

This effort in the canvassing work will bring the truth before some two or three hundred readers every week. With success, a person laboring for one year in this way would bring the truth before a large number of people. Who is willing to take hold of it? I believe that perseverance will insure good results to almost every intelligent young man or woman. Some have worked a day or two, and not meeting with much success have given up in discouragement; others have done quite well. Two of our brethren each took nine orders on the first whole day’s trial. I worked hard one day and took only four orders; but the next day, in an adjoining town, I obtained twenty-nine. Thus a person’s success will not always be the same, and sometimes the work may seem to go very hard; but perseverance will crown our labors with success. If we could have a score of young men canvassing in this country, we could find more work than that number would be able to perform. May we not see many engaging in this work? R. S. OWEN.