Progress in the Levant
By N. Z. T.
We have just received a summary of the canvassing work done in the Levant Union during 1910. They had about four canvassers at work, on an average, during the year, and their total sales amounted to 15,853 piasters. Speaking of this report, Brother C. Voight says:— “Enclosed you will find a summary for our field for 1910. The amounts in American money are not high, it is true; but we had, in general, only tracts or papers which could be sold, it was our first year of regular canvassing, so far as we know, in the history of our work in the Levant, and money in Oriental lands is not so easily obtained as in other countries. The canvassing work in the Levant has now a good foothold, and we hope it will continue on this basis. For 1911 we shall be able to report also the number of days, number of hours, and number of books and tracts sold, thus having a clearer picture of the work of our agents. We have sold in general, until now, only tracts and a few English or French pamphlets; but one of our canvassers has made an excellent start with ‘Steps to Christ’ in Armenian, and as ‘Matthew Twenty-four’ in Greek is now in print, we hope to report for 1911 a good sale of books.”