Success in Great Britain

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 21, 1912

Success in Great Britain

THE following interesting items we take from the report which Brother S. Joyce gave of the colporteur work at the last session of the British Union Conference. Speaking of the work of the students who went out to earn scholarships, Brother Joyce says:—

“God seems to have made bare his mighty arm in behalf of our students, and our hearts have been made exceedingly glad to see how he has blessed them. One of these students took $136 worth of orders in one week; another took $131 worth in one week. Three years ago we were all delighted because one young man earned a scholarship in fifteen days. The next year he earned one in eleven days, and the following year he went beyond that record by getting a scholarship in a little over eight days. That young man was working in a district that had a bad name, two other agents having been over the ground without accomplishing much. In one week of sixty hours he took $150 worth of orders for ‘Great Controversy.’

“Early this year one young man sent us word that in seven days he had secured sufficient orders to pay for a scholarship. He has already done that the second time this year, and has managed recently to earn a scholarship in six days.

“Our young people must get an education, and God helps those who desire to get it and who work for it. It is very much better that a young man help himself in this way than that the church subscribe money to send him to school, thus educating him to lean upon others.”