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The Colporteur Work in Fiji

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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 12.

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The Colporteur Work in Fiji

By T. A. Driver

IN our latest council here it was decided that we push the colporteur work, and urge our students and workers to engage in it. We are glad to see the efforts that are being put forth, and thankful for the remarkable success attending those who have entered the field. Besides several of our native teachers, we have four of our Buresala students in this work during vacation. They left Buresala early in November, and were all happy, and confident that the Lord would lead them. They took between them two cases of books (about one hundred sixty). We have just received a letter from one of them, saying:—
“We have been here two weeks and one day, and have sold out. The people of this district have a great desire for good books. . . . We had only to sit down in some of their houses, and the people would crowd in, and long before we had finished talking, they would throw down the money. We are surprised at the way the Lord has helped us.”
Levi, one of our youngest workers, who lately entered the field, writes:—
“When Alipati Rainima and I left Suva for Kandavu, we took with us thirty books, and in a very short time we sold all. We then returned, and after getting more books we went to Rewa. Here we parted, and with many forebodings I made my way to the first town. But I kept thinking of Jesus, and praying continually that he would help me in this important work. I was enabled to sell twenty books that week; but I kept thinking of Kandavu, so in the month of August I left Suva once more for Kandavu, taking forty books. In two weeks’ time I had again sold all. This shows how great the demand is.”
The time was when selling literature in Fiji was thought little of, but the foregoing extracts show that the Lord is working upon the hearts of the people. Now is the time to get our publications before the people. May the good Master continue to bless the efforts that are being put forth. T. A. DRIVER.