p. 17 | Selling Books in Cuba by H. A. B. Robinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 27, 1914

Selling Books in Cuba

By H. A. B. Robinson

I AM sure that every reader of the good old REVIEW would be glad to know of our latest success here in Cuba in the colporteur work, and so I wish to tell a little of it.

Henry Brown, who recently arrived from the Foreign Mission Seminary, has just made another record for Cuba, taking $329 worth of orders in one week for “Patriarchs and Prophets,” Spanish.

As soon as he reached Havana, he went directly to Matanzas, the city to which he had been assigned. I met him there the same day, and helped him some in getting a start. His first report was $44 for six hours’ work. Then he got to work in earnest and secured the names of the best men he could find in the city, including the governor, the treasurer of state, the mayor, several bankers, and a long list of schoolteachers. He put in forty-nine hours that week, taking 109 orders, valued at $329.

We have counted up and find that we have just about $1,500 worth of “Patriarchs and Prophets” in the office, and Brother Brown has promised to dispose of all of them before he leaves Cuba this summer. Last week he took orders amounting to $236, and this week they amounted to $286, making a total of almost $900 worth of orders which he has taken since coming to the island.

When we remember Brother Brown’s experience with the student mob in Santa Clara last year, his $600 delivery in the face of advertisements against him and his book, the fact that he has already earned three scholarships in Cuba, and his good experiences in Mexico, even selling two of our books to Venustiano Carranza, the present head of the rebel forces in that republic, we have faith that he will do good work here this summer. I trust all who read this will join us in praying that Brother Brown may have good success in his deliveries in August, and that a harvest of souls may some day be gathered in Matanzas as a result of his faithful work.

H. A. B. ROBINSON, General Agent.