p. 20 | An Active Missionary Veteran by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1911

An Active Missionary Veteran

By A. J. S. B.

WE are in receipt of an interesting missionary report from a Civil War veteran, now in his eighty-third year. Having served the government for three years and six months during the war, he is now devoting the remainder of his life to house-to-house missionary work with our papers and tracts.

During the year 1910, he sold and distributed 2,825 copies of our magazines and other periodicals. The periodicals handled were Life and Health, the Temperance Instructor, Good Tidings of the Messiah, and the Harvest Ingathering number of the REVIEW. His average monthly sale of Life and Health amounted to 197 copies. He distributed one hundred copies of the Harvest Ingathering number of the REVIEW, thereby securing five dollars for missions. From his earnings, he was able to donate to foreign missions one hundred dollars and pay a tithe of forty-eight dollars. Tracts also were purchased to the amount of twelve dollars.

He works an average of three and one-half hours a day, and often sells as high as fifteen magazines an hour. His average daily sale amounts to twenty-three copies. His largest sale during the year was four hundred copies during August, and his smallest, one hundred copies a month during April and May.

If this aged brother can accomplish so much for the truth by working less than one-half time each day, what might not thousands of able-bodied men and women be able to do during their spare time? The average man or woman can engage in no occupation affording more genuine enjoyment, spiritual growth, and financial profit than the sale of our ten-cent magazines. The work requires only a comparatively short time for preparation, and even those without experience often become successful agents.

A. J. S. B.