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Hard Times Are Conquered

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 23.

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Hard Times Are Conquered

By R. L. PIERCE

WE thank God that there is one power in this world which is greater than “Wall Street” or any of the panics which are there produced. The gold and silver are the Lord’s, and no financiers of this world can tie it up so closely that it will not still be his. The god of mammon, with merciless greed may place his grip upon the currency of our land, and the old god “Pan” may, as he was reputed from of old, start a panic; and yet all these schemes of the gods of this world will come to naught because the gold and silver are the Lord’s, and Jehovah is God above all gods; and he still reigns in the realm of dollars and cents. This is the only reason we can give why our general agents write from every union conference in North America stating that canvassers since the beginning of 1908 have averaged to sell more books a week than they did during 1907. The following item from Elder W. W. Eastman, general agent of the Southwestern Union, is similar to many others:—
“We are at last out of winter quarters, and have gone at it again, and I think you will see this union during May go a long way ahead of its April report. We are now receiving some of the largest reports we have ever received from a canvasser in one week. Our report for April is over two thousand dollars more than it was for the same month last year. That does not look very ‘panicky’ does it?”
Therefore, fellow workers, when the work goes hard, do not become discouraged or disheartened. Seek God the more earnestly and work the harder, knowing that he will open a way of escape that will lead to victory in overcoming difficulties and discouragements. Everything indicates that the time has come for this work to be speedily finished; but it is only those who have been proved who will have a part in its closing hours. Let us be faithful, and not rest satisfied unless we are gaining new victories from day to day.
R. L. PIERCE.