Encouraging Progress in North Carolina by W. E. Lanier

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1912

Encouraging Progress in North Carolina

By W. E. Lanier

God has wonderfully blessed our efforts during the year, for which our hearts swell with gratitude. By the time this reaches the readers, nearly, if not all our canvassers will have completed their deliveries for the year. The present outlook is that we shall have passed all previous records for this conference by twenty to twenty-five per cent, and that, too, in the face of many obstacles.

At the time we were taking the orders, the country was experiencing a severe drought. It is true that the farmers were successful in raising a good crop of cotton, nevertheless the unexpected drop in the price of this article has made our deliveries difficult. Notwithstanding all these difficulties, with about the same number of canvassers as last year, we shall have augmented last year's sales by $2,000 to $2,500. We can but exclaim, “See what God hath wrought!”

We have four canvassers who will have delivered nearly $6,000 worth of books, exclusive of Bibles.

We do not write these things to boast of what we have done, but to show what God, through us, has done. He has said that the canvassing work should be revived. To-day we see that revival accomplished. We appeal to others to join us in this great work. “Soon autumn will close the golden gate;” but to-day you can work for the Master, and he says that “the laborer is worthy of his hire.”

W. E. Lanier.