Winter Canvassing by E. R. P.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 15, 1909

Winter Canvassing

By E. R. P.

It may seem peculiar to write about winter canvassing when winter is well over. We should explain, therefore, that what we publish on this question is intended to apply to next winter.

We have recently received a letter from one of our young sisters in eastern Canada which we think should be read by a large number of our strong, six-foot-tall men, who have been hibernating during the past winter, waiting for the weather to get lukewarm and sunshiny.

She says: “You spoke in your last letter of wondering how I got along during the cold weather. I have worked on just the same. I have bundled up, and started out without stopping to think about the cold. The weather is never so cold here in — as elsewhere in the provinces. There have been only a few days this winter when the thermometer has registered more than twenty degrees below zero, but the air being so damp, it is a penetrating cold.”

This good sister writes as though twenty degrees below zero were a very agreeable, pleasant temperature for a good, hustling canvasser, and she has succeeded in doing a good business far up in the North, where “the fur is thick on the foxes.”

We very much hope that this paragraph will catch the eye of all our boys and girls who burrow as soon as the temperature goes below freezing, and wait for warm weather.

We are deliberately planning to break up this hibernating idea entirely, and do away with it altogether. A good beginning was made during the winter just passed. We hope to have the movement for winter canvassing in full swing before the thermometer gives its first notice of the approach of another winter. E. R. P.