What a Paper Did by H. H. Hall

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1905

What a Paper Did

By H. H. Hall

WHILE at the conference I had a talk with Brother W. C. Sisley, manager of the International Tract Society, London, during which he told me the following story:—

“An agent who was somewhat discouraged, but who was selling the Present Truth, accosted a gentleman who he soon found was interested in the coming of the Lord. After purchasing a paper, he learned from the agent that tracts could be secured on the same subject. The result was he ordered fifty thousand copies of a pithy leaflet on the Sabbath question, and hired the agent from whom he had received the paper to circulate them for him. Afterward he ordered fifty thousand more tracts treating on the subjects of the Sabbath and the Second Coming of Christ. He also hired these distributed by the same agent.

“One of these leaflets was put through the door of a house where lived a man who had become somewhat interested in our principles through reading our literature. The leaflet so fully convinced him of the truth of our message that he in turn ordered fifty thousand copies of another tract, and hired a regular commercial agency to circulate them for him. Both of these gentlemen are now fully in the truth.”

So we see what a bountiful harvest a small sowing will sometimes bring forth. H. H. HALL.