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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 16, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 29.

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A Good Word From Manitoba

By Jas. T. Thompson.

We have just returned from our camp-meeting held at Carman, and had such a rousing good time in the interests of the canvassing work that I feel like passing it on. Our force is not very large, but what it lacks in quantity is made up in quality, so it is scarcely necessary to say that we have five of the best boys that ever carried a prospectus—all students from our school.
Our star salesman is a young Russian boy who came to this country two years ago unable to speak the English language; but he is a consecrated young man, and two years in school has fitted him for the work of a successful canvasser. Two of the other boys are German, and less than three years ago they could not speak the English language. Another one stated at the recent camp-meeting that five years ago he was unable to write his own name. The Lord has wonderfully blessed these young men, and for the months of May and June they took orders for more than seventeen hundred dollars' worth of books.
We had a canvassers' session at the camp-meeting one afternoon in which the brethren were given some history of the development of book sales in general, and also what work had been done in this conference this season. The boys were then given an opportunity to relate their experiences in the work, and I know of no meeting that touched the hearts of the brethren as this one did. There was scarcely a dry eye in the congregation.
I am herewith giving you the report of book sales for the first week in June. You will notice that we have a splendid average on hours, and also number of orders for the exhibitions given.
AGENTS HOURS EXHIBITIONS ORDERS VALUE
Sergius Burley 54 80 62 $128.00
Henry Giles 55 92 19 68.25
Frank Cramer 47 86 18 58.00
Robert Neumann 58 75 18 55.25
Lewis Liske 39 55 16 41.35
Total 253 388 133 $350.85
We feel to praise the Lord that throughout the great wide field his special blessing seems to be resting upon the consecrated canvasser.
Jas. T. Thompson.