Selling Literature in China by J. P. Anderson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 17, 1910

Selling Literature in China

By J. P. Anderson

HAVING never seen in the REVIEW a report of the canvassing work in China, I thought its readers might be interested to learn concerning what has been done with some of our Chinese literature. Most of our papers were sold in the Wai Chou district among the Hakka people. This place is situated one hundred fifty miles east of Canton. Many of the people are very poor, and, to make things worse, we have had a flood that destroyed all the second rice crop.

This has been somewhat of an experimental year with our canvassing, and I am sure that, with the points we have learned, next year will show a much larger increase in the sale of our Chinese paper, the Signs of the Times. Every year we print a Chinese calendar. The Hakka station is trying to sell twenty thousand copies. We go to town on market day, and sell to the people as they come in to buy or sell. Last Friday I walked ten miles to a little village. I could throw a stone from one end of it to the other. There, in about one hour, I disposed of two hundred copies, all I had with me.

Traveling around through the country, as I have been doing this past year, one can not help but realize more and more that if ever this people is to hear of a soon-coming Lord, it will have to be through our literature.

J. P. ANDERSON.