Canvassers for Foreign Fields
By N. Z. T.
THE Mission Board is unable to supply the urgent demands from mission fields for canvassers. A few have responded to the calls made for such workers; but more than a score of men could be immediately placed in different parts of the world in response to these pleas, if they were available. Writing from Manila, Philippine Islands, Brother L. V. Finster says: “I hope they will hurry up those canvassers promised for this field. The southern islands, the largest of all the islands here, have never been touched as yet. Brother Caldwell has put about fifteen hundred copies of ‘Patriarchs and Prophets’ and one thousand of ‘Coming King’ in the island of Luzon, and has only worked a part of the island thus far. Sending out canvassers will not make a very heavy drain on the funds of the General Conference, and they are among our best pioneer workers. We have been encouraged to see a number of natives take their stand for the truth during the last few weeks.” Here is Brother C. E. Weaks’s plea from India: “How soon can we have those two canvassers voted to this field by the General Conference? We need them, and need them badly. Will it be necessary to wait until another cold season, or can you send them off immediately?” The following reaches us from Brother Shultz, of Bolivia, South America: “I would like to see more canvassers in Bolivia,—men who are firm, and who can stand like a Luther, those who only know to advance, but never retreat. The Lord has blessed me in my work. In eight weeks I have sold books to the value of about four hundred dollars. We are not disappointed nor discouraged. The Lord is with me, though often the spiritual darkness of the country seems to cover and depress me. My only wish is to have at least one (if not more) canvasser to accompany me in my travels over the mountains and hills,—one who can sleep on the ground or in mountain caves, when there is no other place, who will stick to it through rain and sunshine, and who will not be discouraged when driven out of town by the priests.” Where are the strong men, such as Brother Shultz describes, who will respond to the urgent calls from these needy fields? The Publishing Department of the General Conference will be glad to correspond with any who are willing to offer themselves.