p. 17 | Selling “Great Controversy” by I. T. REYNOLDS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1908

Selling “Great Controversy”

By I. T. REYNOLDS

in Louisiana

A Worker’s Experience

We are pleased to note a change for the better in the last two years all over the South in the selling of our large books. The experience of one of our workers with “Great Controversy” reveals God’s willingness to assist those who are willing to work in harmony with his plans in carrying this precious message to the world. This brother had for some time been selling books, but had never sold “Great Controversy.” Below we give a part of his experience:—

“I had felt for some months past that I ought to take up the sale of ‘Great Controversy.’ Realizing that if anything was accomplished through me, the Lord must do it, in much weakness and prayer I looked over my prospectus for some points to interest others.

“All who saw the book seemed interested, and those who felt able gave their orders. As a result, in six days’ work in that vicinity the Lord gave me two hundred dollars in orders. Two weeks later I returned to make the delivery, taking in one hundred fifty dollars in three days. Some orders were postponed, and some lost.

“A few days later I visited a Baptist minister who had purchased a copy of this book, and he had made up his mind to keep the Lord’s Sabbath. Another minister said that, with the exception of the Bible, it was the grandest book he ever read.”

Are there not many in this State standing idle in the market-places, while the Master has work to do? Are you unwilling to be laborers together with God?

Any who desire a part in the closing work in Louisiana should write me, and plan to attend our canvassers’ institute, January 18-28. My address is Pineville, La. I. T. REYNOLDS.