The Indiana Scholarship Company by G. R. FATTIC

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 3, 1908

The Indiana Scholarship Company

By G. R. FATTIC

AT our Young People's Convention held at Beechwood Academy, June 5-7, 1908, the plan of earning scholarships by the sale of our books and periodicals was discussed, and a plan set on foot for the organization of a company to tour the conference, and sell our periodicals as a means of securing scholarships.

There were those who, when they “viewed the land,” became faint-hearted when they saw the giants and fenced cities, and rather than try the experiment with the company, will probably not be able to attend school next year. But there are always a few Calebs and Joshuas in every company, who expect great things of the Lord, and are willing to attempt great things for him. A company of seven of these was organized, and plans of work were talked over and agreed upon before leaving the convention. Our conference president, Elder W. J. Stone, was interested in the enterprise, and agreed to furnish tents for the company and to ask the committee to pay the freight expense, and the board of the chaperon.

The company came together at Anderson, and began work on the afternoon of their arrival. Since that time we have worked nineteen towns and cities quite thoroughly from house to house, camping about three weeks in cities of largest size, and working them, and then all the outlying towns that can be reached by interurban trains within a radius of thirty miles or thereabout.

The company is provided with three good family tents with flies and suitable equipment for camp life, including tables, benches, beds, oil and gasoline stoves, cooking utensils, dishes, etc.

The company uses one tent for dining and cooking purposes, and each one contributes equally to the commissary department. The average expense of the company a member is about $1.25 a week, including traveling expenses.

Our average sales a week for the entire company of seven, including Saturday nights, when everything is favorable, amounts to about nine hundred magazines. This week we have sold eight hundred of the August number of Life

and Health in three days. We find it a very rapid seller.

The company is composed of Misses Hazel Vance, Linnie Vance, Vella Sparks, Leone Sparks, and Katherine Blake from Beechwood Academy, Fairland, Ind., Grover R. Fattic, from South Lancaster Academy, South Lancaster, Mass., Floyd Thompson, Indiana Medical College, and Mrs. Ida Fattic, chaperon.

We pass this account along to the REVIEW, that our experience may be an inspiration to others who plan for a similar campaign next summer.

We believe it to be the surest, best, and most profitable way for students to provide the necessary means for school expenses, and we have conclusively proved that any one who will go out in the fear of the Lord, hoping to do a work that will glorify him, and help to uphold his cause of truth in the earth, can secure a scholarship during one summer vacation by faithfully applying himself to the work, and trusting in Omnipotence for help, health, and strength.

We have been accorded every courtesy wherever we have gone by the city officials, and have been given the best locations their parks and city grounds afforded.

We are now camped on an island surrounded by the waters of the Wabash River at Logansport; this island belongs to the city, and affords every advantage to campers. As we gather around our camp-fire each evening, and tell of the experiences of the day, no word of discouragement is ever heard. And as we kneel before retiring, we always have much to thank our Heavenly Father for, and are not unmindful of the truth that God is over all. G. R. FATTIC.