His "Patrick Henry" Canvass by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 13, 1910

His "Patrick Henry" Canvass

By A. J. S. B.

ONE of our workers who has been selling Liberty with good success during the summer campaign writes:— “I am having some fine experiences, and have sold 2,275 magazines, and taken fifty dollars’ worth of subscriptions.

This is not as much as I desired to do, but it is evidence of fairly good success.”

This agent succeeds in attracting the attention of the people by asking them if they remember what Patrick Henry said about liberty in his notable speech before the Virginia legislature. Few of them recalling the words of that noted orator, he tells them that he said: “Give me liberty, or give me death.” Then he says: “I have the same principles of liberty that Patrick Henry thought so much of, in the form of a magazine, for which I am asking only ten cents. If Patrick Henry thought so much of liberty as to prefer death rather than to be deprived of it, certainly the principles taught by him are worth as much as ten cents to most any of us to-day.”

This pleasant way of introducing the subject nearly always captivates his customers, and yields a good harvest of sales. Originality, tact, and push, guided by the Spirit of God in the heart, are the secrets of successful Christian salesmanship.

A. J. S. B.