p. 22 | Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 51. (12/3/1914)

Earlier text: Experiences in Treatment Room Work

How and Why Books Are Delivered Under Difficulties

By W. W. E.

Perhaps there is no class of workers among us who meet with experiences more marked than our consecrated colporteurs as they engage in the sale of our truth-filled subscription books from house to house.

Thinking the readers of the REVIEW might be interested in reading some of these experiences indicating the providence of God in this work, I am attempting to put into this article only a few gleanings from the correspondence from the field. Some portions of our territory in the North American Division were very much affected by the outbreak of the European war, especially those sections where cotton constitutes the chief money crop. For the past few years cotton has been bringing a good price, and this has naturally encouraged farmers to raise cotton more extensively than they otherwise would. In all cotton districts the best time for delivering our books is in the fall, when the product is marketed. When the present European war was declared, cotton dropped from twelve to five cents a pound. Our colporteurs had thousands of dollars' worth of books to be delivered.

One worker writes of an experience in his field: "When I came to one person to deliver his book, I was told that although he had eight bales of cotton already gathered, the landlord, on account of the low price, would not permit it to be sold, and the tenant's family had been living on corn bread and water for two weeks, not being able to secure money with which to purchase anything."

Another agent writes: "Men, with tears streaming from their eyes, say: ‘Times are hard. I do not know what we are going to do, but I want that book.’ Just yesterday we went to a man who said it would take all he could get out of his crop to pay his fertilizer bill, and he should have nothing with which to pay his grocery bill, or to get clothes for his wife and baby."

Another sends this word: "We found there had been a disease among the cattle and horses that had killed most of them. Two thirds of the customers had lost their last horse or cow with the plague, and they lived from ten to sixteen miles from town, and cotton was selling at five cents."

Another writes that the condition in his territory is such as to awaken sympathy. People who were happy and comfortable three months before, when he took the orders, are now in abject want, some even selling the furniture from the room to buy food to live on.

How Are They Delivered?

Well may the reader wonder how our large subscription books can be delivered under such circumstances. Here are some experiences that show how the Lord helps in the work:—

One worker gives the following experience in delivering: "The man looked at the book, pressed it to his heart, and said, ‘I would not take five dollars for that book if I had the money to get it.’" The colporteur suggested that he might be able to borrow the money from a neighbor. He was glad to try, and started off. "I told him I would go with him; but he said, ‘No, I will run; and if I get the money I will be back in ten minutes.’ He came back in a few minutes almost out of breath, with his face just beaming with joy." He had succeeded in borrowing the money, and was thus enabled to secure the book.

Another writes of a man who, rather than spend the money he had saved for the book, had taken a load of wood and driven fourteen miles to sell it, in order to purchase flour for his family. In one of the Western States where the cattle disease had, in many instances, taken the last horse or cow, from fifty to seventy per cent of the orders taken by the colporteur were delivered.

The following instances, as given by one of our field agents, will serve as an illustration of how God's special providences often help our evangelical canvassers. He says: "We stayed overnight with a Mr. E. In the evening he asked me from whom we had taken orders in that part of the country. After I had read the names to him, he remarked that it would take two days to deliver the books, for we had a terrible road to go over, and that if we needed his assistance he would go with us. I thought it over that night, and decided to take him. He was about sixty years of age, and was a deacon in the Baptist Church. He proved to be excellent help. He had bought one of the books himself, and liked it. The first place we came to he told them he liked his book, and that they might just as well get the money for theirs. They took the book. A preacher lived at the next place, and

Mr. E. had heard that because of prejudice he was not going to take his book. He told me on the way that he thought he could deliver it for me, so on arriving at the house he jumped out, and in a few minutes succeeded. The next place they did not have the money, so Mr. E. borrowed the money for them; and it went on that way all day. When we found the people did not have the money, Mr. E. would either pay for the book or make arrangements for them to get the money. That evening we came in with orders from different ones amounting to $25 on a Mr. W., the storekeeper. Mr. E. made arrangements with him, and we got the money without any trouble. We failed to deliver just one book that day." The worker adds, "I believe the Lord impressed that man to help me place the books in the homes of the people in that neighborhood;" and who would say he did not? We have been told that "humble, fervent prayer would do more in behalf of the circulation of our books than all human embellishments in the world."

The following from one of our colored colporteurs in the Southland illustrates how prayer does sell our books: "The Lord is good to all, but it seems to me that he is especially kind to the colporteur. He goes to the dwellings of the people and prepares their hearts. One very striking example occurred this week. Thursday I was feeling uncertain about my work, but I fell on my knees before God. After going a few miles I came to a large plantation. Seventeen men were out in the field together, working near the road. The one nearest me was singing, ‘What is the soul of man?’ I walked up, smiling, and said, ‘All right, I will tell you.’ We all had a hearty handshake. I spoke of the work I was doing before I showed them the book. They were anxious to see it, and clustered around me while I showed the book ‘Daniel and the Revelation,’ and I got eight orders for the book.

‘I stopped overnight with one of these men, and he told me the following experience: ‘We have had a very wicked white man as overseer. He came into the field yesterday where we were, and cursed us shamefully, and while he was doing this I stepped aside and prayed for him. In a little while he went away in a rage, but soon returned, riding slowly. Some of the men said, “He is coming again, boys.” I said, “Yes, but he is coming differently this time;” for I knew the Lord had already answered my prayer. On coming up to us he asked which of the boys he had cursed. The boy answered. Then the boss said, “I have done wrong, boys, and if you will pray for me I will give you all an hour to go to church.” We all went to church for the one hour of prayer. It was so striking and very strange, but our overseer came to church also, and after a few earnest prayers he asked the pardon of those whom he had cursed. Many of us were moved to tears. Then he said we might have a meeting every day if we wished.’’

The colporteur adds: ‘I met the overseer the next morning, and he was quite pleasant. Had I come two days before this, probably I should not have been allowed to stop these men from work to show my book, but the Lord went before and prepared the way.’

Such work as these colporteurs are doing, is being carried on throughout the world, and the object and results are illustrated in the following paragraph taken from a letter of one who spent the past summer in evangelistic canvassing:— ‘As a result of the books sold, tracts distributed, readings given, and prayers offered, all of one family, except one daughter, are keeping the Sabbath. This sounds better to me than the rattle of silver; and if I do not get another dollar, I am well paid for my summer’s work.’

This is how and why it is done.

W. W. E.

Our Home Missionary Campaign

By E. M. Graham

Sold a Thousand Magazines a Month

“Just a line to let you know I am in Calgary. I should like some papers sent here. I sold only 200 papers in Spokane in three weeks. Since coming here I am selling from 100 to 160 a day. I sell them in the business places, and work only three or four hours a day. I am using Life and Health, Watchman, and Signs. Last summer I sold 1,000 Signs a month. The first day I was in Victoria I sold nearly 300 papers from eleven to five o’clock. The Lord surely blessed me in the work. I sold 100 on Saturday night. Altogether I sold 750 in three days. Have also sold over 200 Chinese papers on Saturday nights, also Japanese and other papers, in two hours. I like the work. The people get interested in the truth, and I give Bible readings occasionally. I am not the best of scholars, but do the best I can.”

Does Home Missionary Work Pay?

“One of our sisters in Nebraska has recently learned that as a result of sending the Signs weekly to a friend and writing to him, he has been keeping the Sabbath for some time. He is subscribing for our papers, and has quite a number of our books, all of which he reads, then lends to others that they may learn the truth which has come to him. She began six years ago. Did it pay? She has other friends to whom she has sent this splendid missionary paper for two years, and with whom she corresponds, but not until the two years had elapsed did she learn the encouraging news that two had begun the observance of the Sabbath. Did it pay?”

E. M. GRAHAM.

From the Southland

BROTHER O. MONTGOMERY, of Atlanta, Ga., writes regarding the Harvest Ingathering prospects in the South:—

“We are facing a desperate situation. Undoubtedly no other part of the United States is suffering so fearfully from the effect of the war upon its finances as is the Southland. Things are absolutely at a standstill. Hundreds and thousands are living on half rations. Yet in the face of this condition, our tithes and offerings are keeping up remarkably. Surely God is with his people. Mrs. Montgomery and I took some papers with us down town on a business trip this morning. She gave out four and received $10.60; I, three, and was given fifty cents. We are all of good courage.”

These are cheering words from the South, and should encourage others to perseverance and faithfulness in more favorable sections.

— Orders were issued recently by the Comptroller of the Currency for the printing of $250,000,000 of federal reserve notes for the use of the twelve federal reserve banks. They will be in denominations of 5’s, 10’s, 20’s, 50’s, and 100’s. The designs are all new, and are thought to be the most artistic notes yet issued by the government.

— The twelve federal reserve banks opened for business November 16. The opening date is two weeks earlier than first planned, but in announcing his decision Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo stated that this step was taken because of emergency conditions in the South, in the belief that the opening of the banks will be helpful there and benefit business in all sections of the country.

— The National Safety Council, recently in session, passed the following resolution by a unanimous vote: “Whereas, It is recognized that drinking alcoholic stimulants is productive of a heavy per cent of the accidents and diseases affecting the safety and efficiency of workingmen, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of this organization to go on record in favor of eliminating the use of intoxicants in the industries of the nation.” The members of this council, it is said, employ more than 1,000,000 men.

— Unless the experts who figured out the “taxables” when Congress was working on the income tax law were far at sea in their calculations, there are 140,000 income tax dodgers who have evaded the internal revenue collector and failed to pay their share of the toll. According to figures made public by the Secretary of the Treasury, 357,598 returns were made under the income tax law during the fiscal year just ended. The estimates on which Congress did much of its work on the act gave a total of 425,000 taxable incomes. These estimates did not include incomes between $3,000 and $4,000.

— The longest sitting of Congress in the history of the nation came to an end October 24, having been in uninterrupted session for nineteen months, or since the inauguration of President Wilson. Tariff reform, the income tax, the new currency law, antitrust legislation, the repeal of the toll exemption provision for American coastwise ships in the Panama Canal, and the provision to build a government railroad in Alaska are its chief items of legislation. This Congress has also been remarkable in that it has had to deal with conditions arising from two foreign wars—the revolution in Mexico and the European conflict. Congress has also devoted much attention to foreign relations, general arbitration treaties with twelve nations having been ratified by the Senate, while new treaties providing for peace commissions of investigation in international disputes have been ratified with twenty-three nations. One of the important items of legislation passed, growing out of the European war, is the war revenue law imposing special internal revenue taxes which will aggregate about $90,000,000. The next session of Congress will convene December 7.

Our Special Literature

By D. W. REAVIS

Meeting “The Prediction” and Having “an Attentive and Even Anxious Hearing”

THE accompanying facsimile copy, taken from the Literary Digest soon after the beginning of the European war, announces the presence of the time when the public mind is prepared for literature giving light on the great fundamental problems of the race, and dealing with the destiny of nations.

This prediction of the Springfield Republican is proving to be true. The editors of the REVIEW, sensing the need of the hour, got out the first War Extra of the REVIEW, and within a few weeks a million and a half copies were ordered. Soon a second Extra was issued, on the Eastern Question, and in ten days over one-half million copies were ordered, and orders for from 50,000 to 90,000 copies a day were coming in when this report was made.

The demand for this special literature is not confined to the English language, for all nationalities want it. The following facsimile telegram reveals the intense desire, and the spirit of haste in getting the contents of the REVIEW Extra No. 2 translated into other languages:—

The president of the New Jersey Conference, from whom this message was originally received, sent telegrams to his churches announcing the second Extra, and they immediately sent in orders for 65,000 copies, and are still ordering.

The general spirit and sentiments of those ordering the REVIEW Extra are expressed in the following quotation:—

“We received the sample copy of the REVIEW Extra No. 2 in time for our Sabbath meeting. We are ordering 20,000 copies for distribution in Reading, Pa. Our plan is to put a copy in every house. I believe that if the publishers continue to supply good, cheap literature on subjects which are up-to-date, our missionary societies and churches will use it in large quantities.”

REVIEW Extra No. 2 has been translated and printed in the Bohemian language and can be secured of the Review and Herald, 32 Union Square East, New York City, N. Y., at 75 cents a hundred.

D. W. REAVIS.

NOTICES AND APPOINTMENTS

By J. G. WALKER; J. B. GIDDINGS

The British Columbia Conference

The thirteenth annual session of the British Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will be held at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Dec. 25-30, 1914. The purpose of the meeting is the election of officers for the ensuing year, and the transaction of such other business as properly belongs to the conference. Services are to be held in the church on Friday, at 7:30 P. M.; and the first meeting for organization, appointment of committees, etc., will be held the following evening, at seven-thirty. Each church in the conference is entitled to one delegate and to an additional delegate for every ten members. A full delegation is required from all our churches.

J. G. WALKER, President; J. B. GIDDINGS, Secretary.

British Columbia Association of Seventh-Day Adventists

By J. G. WALKER; J. B. GIDDINGS

THE British Columbia Association of Seventh-day Adventists will hold its annual meeting in the church at Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, in conjunction with the regular meeting of the conference, announced for Dec. 25-30, 1914. The first meeting of the association will convene Monday, Dec. 28, 1914, at 11 A. M. Officers for the ensuing year should be elected, and other business transacted that properly belongs to the association.

J. G. WALKER, President; J. B. GIDDINGS, Secretary.

Requests for Prayer

AN isolated sister in Maine desires that earnest prayer be offered for the conversion of her family.

TWO California sisters who have sustained serious injuries from a fall desire prayer for restoration to health.

Nashville Food Factory

By S. E. WIGHT.

The patrons of the Nashville Food Factory will be pleased to hear that this institution is to be continued. The Southern Union Conference has sold its interest to Mr. Jethro Kloss. Brother Kloss employs the same baker and help throughout that were employed by the Southern Union Conference, and will continue the business on the same plan. The institution will continue to be a factor in the building up of the work in the South, and we request for the factory the hearty cooperation of all our people. S. E. WIGHT.

Publications Wanted

THE following-named persons desire late, clean copies of our periodicals sent postpaid, for missionary purposes:—

Mrs. L. V. Laurents, Cossinade, La.

Mrs. A. Alderman, R. F. D. 3, Box 154, Youngstown, Ohio.

J. H. Downes, Care of Y. M. C. A., Cornhill, London, E. C. Continuous supply of periodicals, tracts, and books.

Mrs. Addie Carroll, Afton, Okla. Especially Signs (weekly and monthly), Watchman, Instructor, Little Friend, and tracts.

Mrs. W. A. Webb, Kingsdale, Pine Co., Minn. Signs (weekly and monthly), Watchman, Instructor, Liberty, Life and Health.

Employment Wanted for Ranch Couple

A MAN and his wife who have recently accepted present truth desire work. Ranch work preferred, but will be glad for any employment. Address W. J. Camp, 1037 West Sixteenth St., Los Angeles, Cal.

War’s Influence on Literature

The Springfield Republican predicts the immediate changes in the character of our reading matter:

“A world event of such transcendent importance will not only create a demand for a special literature, if a literature devoted to so enormous a subject can be called special, but it is likely, also, to have a marked effect upon literary taste. Some subjects which have grown to immense dimensions in a time of prolonged peace will be obscured by the clash of arms. For example, the literature of feminism, too swollen and too widely theoretical to be entirely wholesome, is likely to have a check; woman's world in general will shrink temporarily while battles rage. There will be less attention for the exploitation of vice or the discussion of sex, or for most kinds of problem literature, and perhaps some surcease of miscellaneous agitation will do no harm. But writers who can tell a stupefied world what this fearful portent means, who can throw light on the great fundamental problems of the race, and give some hint as to its destiny, will have an attentive and even anxious hearing. War books, of course, will be in demand.”

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM

By A R SANDBORN

GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, VICE-PRESIDENT NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT BELVIDERE BROOKS, VICE-PRESIDENT

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Religious Liberty in America

By C. M. SNOW

This book deals with the growth of the principles of religious and civil liberty from the beginning of the Christian era down to our own time. It shows how the two principles — religious liberty and religious oppression — have run side by side through the history of nations, the one building up the true kingdom of Christ and the other making martyrs of Christ’s true followers. The planting of those two principles on the shores of the New World, and the struggle between them for dominance here, is pictured in interesting detail. Considerable space is devoted to the growth and work of such un-American and oppressive organizations as the National Reform Association, the Lord’s Day Alliance, and the Federal Council of the Churches; how these forces propose to unite and are now uniting for the enforcement of oppressive legislation, and have opened the way for union with the Catholic Church for the same purpose. The author shows how this combination of forces is working directly to fulfill the desires and purposes of Rome concerning America. The revelation of what those purposes are and what Rome is doing to bring them about makes one of the most thrilling sections of the book. The closing chapter, “Heaven’s Answer to Earth’s Great Problem,” shows how God will work out the problem of this world through the second coming of Christ, and the establishment of his reign in this sin-smitten world. 436 pages, fully illustrated.

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THE HAND OF GOD IN HISTORY

By W. A. Spicer; Fannie Dickerson Chase

By W. A. Spicer

In this age of research, history and the Bible should be found side by side on the table of every student of the times.

We are not only “making history,” but discovering it. The translations made from tablets, rolls, and statues exhumed from mounds, tombs, and buried cities, corroborate and supplement the records found in the Holy Scriptures. In “The Hand of God in History” the discoveries of the archeologist are made to emphasize the statements of Holy Writ; history is shown to have fulfilled the predictions of the prophet; and the testimony of astronomy is given on the side of history and prophecy. Much historical information is given in connection with the description of the prophetic periods of the Scriptures; the development of Christianity by eras is outlined; and the advent message is described as the finale of earth’s history, and the means of disseminating it as providential. The book has about 250 pages, and is bound in two styles.

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GOOD FORM AND SOCIAL ETHICS

By Fannie Dickerson Chase

“Good manners are best conserved by every-day usage.”

If you are preparing for a life of usefulness; if you are endeavoring to make your influence count for most in good society, then you should study the new book “Good Form and Social Ethics.”

Whatever his educational advantages have been, the pastor will appreciate the chapter entitled “The Minister.” To the one whose preliminary training has been limited, or whose early environment was unfavorable, “Good Form” is invaluable.

Over thirty pages of the book are devoted to a chapter to “The Gentleman,” the contents of which are indicated by the subheads:—

Practical Jokes
General Suggestions
Personal Habits—Some Insistent Don’t’s
Relation to Liquor and Tobacco
His Relation to Woman
Relation to People in General

Price, in attractive cloth binding, 75c

REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, Washington, D. C.

Order of your tract society

Wanted: Lessons in Old Testament History

Any one having a copy of “Lessons in Old Testament History” (out of print for years), by Prof. E. B. Miller, that he wishes to dispose of, is kindly requested to correspond with Frederick Griggs, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

Tarrs Join Tsungwesi Mission

In October, by appointment of the South African Union Committee, Brother A. P. and Mrs. Tarr, of the Cape Province, left for Rhodesia, to join the staff of the Tsungwesi Mission. Brother Tarr knows the Kafir language and people, and has had long experience in South African farming.

Progress Among Swedish People

PASSING through Washington on his way westward, last week, Elder S. Mortenson, superintendent of the Swedish department, gave us an encouraging report of progress in the work among the Swedish people. Fruitage of evangelistic effort appears wherever the message is preached.

Twenty-Four Baptized in Mauritius

OUR attention is called to the fact that already a good company of believers has been raised up on the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar, in the Indian Ocean. Only a few months ago Elder Paul Badaut, of France, was appointed to that field, at the call of one believer there, who had accepted the message in Switzerland. Now he reports the baptism of twenty-four believers.

Jeffrey Appointed to Kafirland

We learn that the last of October, Brother E. W. H. Jeffrey, formerly secretary of the South African Union Conference, left Cape Town for Kafirland, in the northeastern part of the Cape Province, of which field he has been appointed superintendent. As a youth, we understand, Brother Jeffrey gained a fluent use of the Kafir tongue, so that he will be able to do efficient work at once among that people. The Maranatha Mission is our main station in this region. The last report shows twenty-six new Kafir converts recently baptized.

Conditions for Club Prices

It is important that our readers bear in mind that our club prices apply only on papers ordered at one time. Papers cannot be added to previous orders, unless the subscription is continued one full year from the date of the expiration of the former order. Neither can clubs be changed after orders have been entered. It should be remembered that the club prices apply only between Dec. 1, 1914, and Feb. 1, 1915.

Conference Funds in War-Torn Europe

Some time ago a rumor appeared in the press that the funds of private depositors in the banks in Germany had been requisitioned by the government. Such a rumor carried its own refutation, but we learn that some have made inquiry of our brethren in Hamburg regarding conference and mission funds on deposit there. Elder Conradi wishes us to inform our brethren that there has been no difficulty in drawing on deposits. The publishing house is busy issuing a large volume of publications. Our brethren are doing their best to keep up the tithe and offerings, and to push on the evangelistic work amid troublous times. This is the word that comes from all the countries involved in the war.

The Worldwide Work of Bible Societies

Because they have done their work silently and without show or ostentation, but few appreciate the great good which has been accomplished by the various Bible societies in the distribution of the Good Book during the last one hundred years. According to the New York Times, the Bible is now issued in whole and in part in no less than 600 languages, and every year adds from eight to ten languages to the list. For the year 1913 the British and Foreign Bible Society issued 1,006,281 complete Bibles, 1,275,040 New Testaments, and 6,676,912 portions of the Bible. The issues of this society increased from 5,934,711 Bibles or portions of Bibles in 1909, to 8,958,233 in 1914. Last year 2,183,000 Bibles, New Testaments, and Scripture portions were issued in China by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and 1,168,965 by the American Bible Society.

Fireside Correspondence School Progress

IN a recent note to the editor of the REVIEW, Prof. C. C. Lewis, president of the Fireside Correspondence School, gives these interesting figures regarding the work of the school: “During the five years of the school's existence it has enrolled 856 students; 165 from Jan. 1 to Oct. 15, 1914. Certificates have been issued for subjects completed: in 1910, 3; in 1911, 24; in 1912, 34; in 1913, 46; in 1914 (10 months), 48. Cash receipts from the beginning have been $10,822.83; expenses, $13,064.06. The difference, $2,241.13, is locked up in lessons (30 subjects) awaiting students. Receipts to October 15 of this year were $1,877.59; expenses, $1,852.48; balance, $25.11. Thus, you see, we are running on a very slender margin. Besides our own country, we have students in England, Scotland, South Africa, Egypt, China, Korea, Hawaii, the Friendly Islands, Argentina, and Brazil. We have one student in prison; he has been converted, and is studying that he may advance this cause when his term is over. His letters show him to be very intelligent and consecrated.”

Prieger Furlough from Haiti

We are glad to learn of the arrival in New York of Elder and Mrs. A. F. Prieger, of the Haitian Mission. They were released for a very much needed furlough in northern climes by the arrival of Brother E. A. Curdy in Haiti. After a few months devoted to getting free from the malaria, these workers will return to their island field.

Executive Board of the Province of Nova Scotia

By Charles Covey

The second annual meeting of the Executive Board of the Province of Nova Scotia in connection with the Seventh-day Adventist Church of the Maritime Provinces will be held in the Seventh-day Adventist church at Tantallon, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, at 4:30 P. M., Dec. 12, 1914.

CHARLES COVEY, Secretary:

The Missions Campaign

By T. E. BOWEN

Our Harvest Ingathering Honor Roll still stands:— Newfoundland, October 14. Maritime, October 22. Quebec, November 11.

Others are working hard. Shall not this list grow before another week goes by?

A. J. Clark, president of Southern Illinois Conference, sends in an encouraging report. He received $108.50 as the result of sixteen papers put out. This is certainly excellent, and is the best that we have heard so far — an average of $6.78 for each paper.

An aged couple in Quebec, Canada, had been successful in gathering $57 in their Ingathering work up to last week. They were still at work.

So far, or up to November 20, 695,616 papers have been sent out. This is 89,051 more than were used in our entire effort last year. We shall soon turn a new corner — 700,000.

Let each church, each conference, keep an eye on its goal.

T. E. BOWEN.

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