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An Honorable Calling

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 38.

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An Honorable Calling

By K. C. Russell

THOSE who are tempted to regard the canvassing work as an undignified calling should consider the following, copied from Leslie’s Magazine by the Washington Star of July 6, 1911:—
“Napoleon Bonaparte was once a book agent; Jay Gould was a canvasser; George Washington in his youth sold over two hundred copies of a subscription book; General Grant for a time earned his living as a subscription-book agent; Webster, Bismarck, and ex-Governor Frank S. Black, of New York, paid part of their college expenses through a book agency.”
If men who are seeking for worldly honor and fame will choose the calling of a book agent simply as a means of pecuniary gain in order to prepare themselves for greater usefulness in life, how much more readily should Seventh-day Adventists engage in that work in order to win precious souls to a knowledge of the everlasting gospel of Christ!
Our prayer is that the number of volunteers for the honorable calling of a consecrated canvasser may continue to grow as the days go by.
K. C. RUSSELL.