Developing the Colporteur Work in China
CHINA is fast developing the colporteur work. Requisition upon Australia is being made for workers to lead out in and develop this branch of the work in the Far East. Of the possibilities in the circulation of our literature there, Brother Porter writes: “West China has a population of 88,000,000; Central China, 112,000,000; East China, 97,000,000. Central China has seventy canvassers and paper sellers in the field, and a large number of young people who would soon enter if properly developed. East China is an organized field, with four churches, seven companies, a number of canvassers already at work, and a number of advanced students ready to enter the field as soon as they are properly trained. West China has a most promising field, which is just opening, but a man is needed to develop and train canvassers.” When we consider that it will be largely through the circulation of our literature that the message must go in these populous countries, we get a glimpse of the magnitude of the work of establishing upon a good foundation the colporteur work in the East.