Report of Progress by E. R. Palmer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1907

Report of Progress

By E. R. Palmer

The accompanying Summary speaks eloquently for itself. Little comment is needed. Let us be glad, and rejoice, and keep working. This Summary totals over ten thousand dollars more than the one for last month, and the one for last month was thirteen thousand dollars higher than any other ever published in the history of our work. From all over the world, the reports are rolling in, filled with good cheer, and hope, and courage.

This report shows that more than one thousand workers are canvassing for our literature from house to house, not including several hundred who are selling papers and distributing tracts.

Several hundred young people are working earnestly for scholarships, and we rejoice with them that they are succeeding so well. Very few show signs of weakness and failure. We are glad these young people are soon to enter school again, although the ranks will be thus thinned. We love to see them thin in this way. However, there will be a tinge of regret unless we can fill the ranks again quickly.

One Thousand Scholarships

We make an earnest call to our young people throughout the denomination to fill the ranks that are broken by so many going to school this fall. Where are the young men who are bright and intelligent and able to work, and have life with all its possibilities before them, and who are remaining at home, following the plow, because they think they can not go to school? Dear young friends, God has a work for you, and means enough for your education. Why not enter the field just now and begin earning a scholarship for next year? You can certainly succeed, and at the same

time be a blessing in God's cause. Who will respond? This is the favorable time for work. The Lord is with his workers, and they are achieving great success. There was a time when it took more courage and faith than now to enter the canvassing field. There was never a more favorable time for this work than to-day.

One Thousand Devoted Men and Women Wanted

We again extend an invitation to our brethren and sisters of experience to enter the field in behalf of the circulation of our literature. Time is so very short, the harvest is so great, and the reapers are so few, that we can not afford to lose time, or to permit any one who is able to work to stand idle in the market-places because no one has hired him. With our whole hearts, we invite you to the service. God's providences attending this department of the work are inviting you. The lost in every land, who are thirsting for the word of God, are inviting you to carry them the light. Let those who have determined that they will sometime work for God determine that they will do so now.

E. R. PALMER,

Sec. Gen. Conf. Publishing Dept.