California by Walter Harper

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 1, 1903

California

By Walter Harper

WESTPORT.—I am now busy filling orders. Brother W. D. Workman, a young college student from Healdsburg, is with me. In about four weeks he was blessed with four hundred and twenty-five dollars' worth of orders. In about three weeks in July and four or five weeks in August and September I was favored with from five hundred to six hundred orders, or, including helps, ten hundred or twelve hundred dollars' worth. All the honor belongs to the Lord; for only he can crown our efforts with success.

Rising at 2 A. M., Brother Workman recently walked twenty miles. On the way he secured orders amounting to about fifty dollars, and that on Sunday, too. The next day he returned to Albion, and took about twenty dollars' worth of orders. By making his journey on foot he met many whom he would not have seen if he had taken the train, and also took more orders.

At Gualala, in Mendocino County, and over the line in the extreme northwest corner of Sonoma County, on a recent Sunday I secured thirty-six orders for books, helps, etc., or about seventy-five dollars' worth, and in one week I had one hundred and six orders, amounting to two hundred and twenty-five dollars in value. We thank, praise, and extol the Lord; for only our God can enable us to see such marked results. Brother Workman handles the religious books in connection with the medical works. We seek the Lord much in prayer, and his grace, peace, and blessing are ours.

We can not carry with us a prospectus of each of our books, yet we sell many of our foreign works, such as “Patriarchs and Prophets,” “Great Controversy,” “Daniel and the Revelation,” etc., by using the Review and Herald catalogue of foreign books. We select the work we wish to sell, and let those whom we canvass read the description, prices, etc., in their own language. We also give them such information in regard to the work as we can, and ask the Lord to help us, and to impress their hearts to buy the book; and the Lord does hear and answer. In this way we sell many books in Swedish, Danish, French, etc. It is good to trust in God, and to lean on the everlasting arm.

WALTER HARPER.