Recent Experiences in Institute Work
SPEAKING of his institute work in the Southern California Conference, Brother J. R. Ferren, missionary secretary of the Pacific Union Conference, writes: “I left Brother Ernest Lloyd with a class of nine young women studying magazine salesmanship at Fernando Academy. Monday next I will go to Lodi with Brother W. H. Covell, the field periodical agent of the California Conference, to help conduct a class in magazine salesmanship there. There are about ten in that school who wish magazine instruction. “In Southern California the missionary secretary, Brother Lloyd, and I visited about fifteen churches in all. We presented the work of tract distribution, missionary correspondence, personal work with periodicals, and magazine selling. We endeavored to strengthen their missionary organization, helped them to supply themselves with more material, supplied them with lists of names for correspondence, and left the members with new courage.” “One church visited was away over in the San Pasqual Valley, nine miles from the railroad. We found a fine company there, but cut off from any territory in which to do much tract and paper work. At that place the missionary correspondence idea appealed to them, and seventy copies of the Signs of the Times were subscribed for. This will call for tracts later on. They also took a number of the Temperance Instructor, and quite a number of small books. “At Escondido, where there are three Germans to one American, a good club of the German Signs of the Times was taken. Some of the English-speaking members are working with the Family Bible Teacher. A number also took the course of instruction in magazine salesmanship.” Those efforts have certainly proved a great uplift to our home workers in that conference.