Selling Books in Arizona
By WALTER HARPER
I HAVE returned to my field of labor, which I left about two weeks ago, in order to take my aged father, who is quite weak and feeble, from Albuquerque, N. M., to our beautiful Loma Linda Sanitarium in California. This caused me to lose one week's time, yet, after all, the time was well spent, for it enabled me to place my aged and sick parent in one of the most beautiful places on earth, and where conditions are favorable to the recovery of health. This was my first visit to Loma Linda. I had heard much of the place, but I must say that all descriptions fall short of the reality. Its charms can not be portrayed, and its beauties are not to be depicted by the pen. It is certainly an ideal spot, a veritable garden of Eden on earth. I am at work once more. Our dear Father above gives all the success. I seek the Lord much by prayer and fasting. I try to lay hold of the arm of omnipotence, plant my feet on the Eternal Rock, lean heavily on the Everlasting Arms, and thus avail myself of the rich supplies of grace so freely offered to all. The Lord does hear and answer most graciously. It is only by his power from on high that our feeble efforts can accomplish anything. Last Thursday at Metcalf, a small mining town near Clifton, the Master gave me thirty-five or thirty-six orders for the large books, helps, etc., and fifteen or sixteen orders for small books, or a total of fifty-one or fifty-two orders, amounting to $121.10—all in one day! Twenty-three of these orders were for that grand, good work, “Patriarchs and Prophets.” It was the largest day's work for “Patriarchs” I was ever permitted to do. The next day at this same place, or on Friday, by 10 A. M., I was favored with over forty dollars' worth of orders, and in about half a day I had ninety dollars' worth of orders for books, helps, etc. In it all I can see the marvelous workings of the power of God.