Notes of Progress

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 1, 1908

Notes of Progress

Notes of Progress

ONE of the best reports that has recently come to our office from the viewpoint of value of orders taken in one week's time, is furnished by the workers in the Texas Conference for the week ending September 2. During that week, there were twenty-four engaged in taking orders for our subscription books. Twenty of these are handling large books, such as “Great Controversy,” “Daniel and the Revelation,” “Bible Readings,” and “Home and Health.” This band of laborers took orders to the value of $834.70, or an average of thirty-five dollars each. The real average for those engaged in soliciting orders was much larger, as seven of their number were occupied mostly in delivering previous orders, these seven agents disposing of $623.70 worth of subscription books during the same week in that field. Such reports as these would indicate that there is one business, at least, which has not been very seriously affected by the hard times.

The same conference furnishes a report showing a total of $154.25 worth of orders taken in forty-two hours' work with “Bible Readings,” or an average of $3.67 an hour. These sales were made during harvest when people are more than ordinarily busy,—one more evidence that the success of the King's business is not dependent on time or place.

From North Dakota, in the Northern Union Conference, comes a report of a most excellent delivery by one of our faithful field workers. His prospectus showed orders to the value of about five hundred fifty dollars for “Daniel and the Revelation” when he started on his delivery. In placing this large amount, he lost only three orders, but found others who gladly took the books, thus making a perfect delivery. Such a delivery is by no means an exception, and in fact most of our workers are delivering well above ninety per cent of their orders.