Korea

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 23, 1915

It is remarkable how our system of holding colporteurs’ institutes and of conducting the colporteur work is being successfully adopted by our brethren throughout the world. In the early history of our subscription book work, it was thought that this could be done successfully only in America. In Great Britain the brethren said, “This may do for the Yankees, but we are British, and do not sell books that way;” but it was soon found that this system was just as workable in Great Britain as in America.

In the Far East our brethren are finding that the subscription method and the plan of instructing our colporteurs in institute work are just as successful there as in the homeland.

Under date of September 2, Brother H. A. Oberg, who is editor of our Korean paper and has charge of our colporteur work in that field, wrote:—

“From July 21 to August 7 we held a colporteurs’ institute here in Seoul, having twenty-eight colporteurs in attendance. We had regular canvasses on ‘Thoughts on Daniel,’ and also on ‘Thoughts on Revelation,’ for our men to learn. During the institute we developed plans which will place the work in these fields on a better footing. We had a map of Korea with large dots representing our companies of believers. In the southern part of the field, our newest section, the majority of dots represented interests that were awakened by the canvassers and later developed by the evangelists. Truly the canvassing work is doing that which it was ordained to do.

“We are now working on the October number of our paper, which will be a special number for the fair which is to be held here September 11 to October 31, in commemoration of the annexation of Korea five years ago. We are publishing a ten-thousand edition, and hope to carry on an aggressive campaign with our literature at this time. I am inclosing a snapshot of the colporteurs who attended our institute.”