p. 16 | Neighborhood Missionary Work by B. M. Garton

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 6, 1916

Neighborhood Missionary Work

By B. M. Garton

As I have been obliged, on account of my health, to step out of the ranks of active workers for a time, I am trying to let my light shine in the country neighborhood where I live. Some time ago I sold a copy of “The World's Crisis” to the merchant with whom I trade. When I went to town a week later, I took with me twelve of these books, besides the Ingathering Signs. While I was doing my purchasing, the merchant to whom I had sold a book the previous week, spoke very highly of it to another customer. She asked to see the book, and took one. That same day a man who was not a Christian urged the elevator man to procure a copy, and lent him a quarter to pay for it. In less than two hours I sold twelve books, all I had with me, and received $1.25 for the Harvest Ingathering fund. I shall order more of the books at once, and canvass my neighbors, so that they may have the truth for these times.

Why should not all our farmers do missionary work of this kind? This is the very work to which the Lord is calling our lay members, and there are great blessings in store for those who will engage in it. People are hungry for the truth, and will be glad to have our literature if we will but take it to them. Let us pray that our “first love” may be restored to us, and that the Spirit of God may rest upon us, that we may soon see the work finished, and then Jesus will come.

B. M. GARTON.