p. 20 | A Good Report by W. W. EASTMAN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 6, 1908

A Good Report

By W. W. EASTMAN

IN looking over the report of the canvassing work for the week ending July 4, as it appeared in the Southwestern Union Record, we feel free to say that it was a splendid report. Texas, with twenty-five canvassers sold over $1,400 worth of books. The average for the week was thirty-nine hours for each canvasser. This was an average of $1.47 an hour for orders and cash sales for helps, not including Bibles or mottoes or subscription books delivered.

Oklahoma and Arkansas each averaged

twenty-nine hours a week for each canvasser. Oklahoma had nineteen canvassers in the field, and Arkansas sixteen, and their average sales an hour was $1.10. When we take into consideration the fact that most of these canvassers sell quite a few Bibles and mottoes, we can see that the Lord is paying a liberal wage to these consecrated workers.

Taking the whole union, we have sixty-six canvassers averaging thirty-two hours a week, and receiving $1.27 an hour for their work in orders and cash sales, not including Bibles, mottoes, or subscription books delivered.

Leaving out two of these who were delivering, we have twenty-six canvassers putting in forty hours or more each week, and receiving $1.44 an hour for their work, while thirty-eight canvassers putting in less than forty hours a week, received only $1 an hour for their services.

These figures make it perfectly plain that the Lord pays the man better, even by the hour, who puts in full time.

But let us notice how it works by the week. These twenty-six canvassers received on an average $66.45 for the week's work, while the thirty-eight received only $23.50.

Now, dear fellow workers, will you not make a study of these figures as given in this report? W. W. EASTMAN.