Help for the Colored Work
By C. P. Bollman
You can help the mission schools for the colored people in the South by selling “The Story of Joseph.” It is now being handled as a forty-per-cent subscription book, canvassers receiving forty-per-cent commission on all sales. In other words, instead of paying twenty-five cents for one copy of the book as formerly, and selling it for the same price, the canvasser now pays fifteen cents for this book, and sells it for twenty-five cents, thus making a profit of ten cents on each book. This plan will enable many to do something to help the mission-school work for the colored people, who would not be able to donate to this cause all the time necessarily spent in selling the book. Of course, those who desire to do so, can still make a donation of their time by giving their commission, but some will wish to earn something in this way to help pay living expenses, and some will doubtless be glad of the opportunity to assist the mission-school work, and at the same time earn something to put into other branches of the cause. This they can do by engaging in the sale of “The Story of Joseph.” The books can be obtained from the tract societies the same as other supplies. Those who are selling other books can include a few copies of “The Story of Joseph” when they are sending in their orders. We believe that many thousands of these books can be sold, and that they will be sold in the near future. Women and children can engage in the sale of this book near their own homes; old persons, too feeble to travel any great distance, can sell the book to their friends and neighbors. It sells very rapidly, and almost every one who sees it wants a copy. This is certain to be the case in families where there are children; and remember that every penny of profit derived from the sale of this book, is used in helping to carry on the mission-school work among the colored people in the South. The Southern Missionary Society ought to receive from this source alone hundreds of dollars during the present year. Indeed there is no reason why hundreds of thousands of the book might not be sold within a few months. Remember that the book should be ordered through your tract society, just the same as other subscription books. C. P. BOLLMAN,
Secretary S. M. S.