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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 8, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 17.

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The Spirit That Wins

By Frederick Lee

FREDERICK LEE
HERE is a picture of two Chinese canvassers, brothers. The boy at the right is one of the best colporteurs we have. No matter what the weather or the conditions, he is out with his papers. When others are discouraged, feeling themselves unable to sell more than a few papers a day, he cheers them on with his happy smile, and by his energetic ways he may sell a hundred or more a day. “No matter what comes,” he says, “I must go out and sell a hundred papers.” And he rarely comes in until the last one is sold.
The colporteur has no easy task, for there is nothing the heathen man detests more than “eating a foreign religion.” Many times our workers are cursed and mistreated for having turned from Confucianism to the religion of Jesus, which the Chinese think has come to their country from across the sea. In this one province of China we are selling about 10,000 copies a month of our paper (Signs of the Times).
Hankow, Hupeh.