Interesting Problems by E. R. P.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 30, 1908

Interesting Problems

By E. R. P.

1. Four sevenths of the book sales in the Columbia Union Conference during the month of May were made in two small conferences. What would have been the total for the union if the other five conferences had done as good work in proportion to their wealth and membership?

2. Fifty-five per cent of the sales in the Central Union Conference were made in Kansas during the month of June. What would have been the total summary for the Central Union Conference if all the other States had made equal sales in proportion to their wealth and constituency?

3. The average time worked by our canvassers during the month of June was about twenty hours a week. How would our summary have stood if all had come up to the standard of forty hours a week or better?

4. If over eighty-two thousand dollars' worth of books were sold during the month of June in four weeks, with the agents averaging half time, what ought the summary to be for July for five weeks, with the agents working full time?

Let us all rejoice in what has been accomplished thus far; and as we study such problems as those given above, and the importance of the times in which we live, let us “stretch to the race and arm for the battle.”

E. R. P.