Notes of Progress

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 3, 1903

Notes of Progress

By the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” Ohio has paid $8,000 toward liquidating the $17,000 debt on the Mt. Vernon Academy.

The Colorado Conference has organized for a vigorous campaign, March 3, 4. Elder Watson, the president, writes as follows: “Our laborers are enthusiastic over this matter, and I feel sure that much will be accomplished. Even our secretaries can hardly stay in the office for the zeal they feel for this neglected part of the work. I am sure that if we can carry this plan out, as we hope we can, every book of our quota will be disposed of.”

As an illustration of the determination with which the work is being pushed in some of the conferences, I quote the following from a letter received from the president of the Western Oregon Conference: “We have our work well organized, and the laborers have been assigned districts including certain churches over which they have charge. I have been much encouraged by the loyalty that they have shown in this crisis. We did not lay upon them the responsibility for the books of their district; but a number of them have volunteered to be responsible for all the books of their territory, promising that what the people would not take and pay for by selling or otherwise by the time we had set for the finishing of the work, they would pay for themselves. This has appealed to the people, and many of them have taken a noble stand. It seems clear that if our workers had not taken hold of the work in this way, much less would have been done than has thus far been accomplished. We set March 1 as the time for finishing our work; but it seems as if we would be compelled to ask for more time.” C. W. FLAIZ.