Colporteur Work in Chile
By T. H. Davis
Last week I came to Linares from Santiago to help one of our new colporteurs get started. Although the weather was bad, we started right in taking orders. The first name to head the list for “Coming King” was that of the leading physician of the place. In one day of six hours' work we took fifty-nine orders from one prospectus. To-day the colporteur worked alone, and he secured nine orders in a little more than two hours in the forenoon. We have on our list the names of the mayor of the town, several lawyers, and the directors of two schools. One stationer ordered a dozen to sell. Sometimes it seems to me that the people are just waiting to give their orders to us. One man said, “Don’t explain it any more; put my name down for one.” We have a good field here, but lack workers who can endure hardness, and can stand it to eat a piece of native bread once in a while. During the union conference we asked for two canvassers from the States, and I suppose that by this time, arrangements are made to send them. May the Lord soon finish the work gloriously.
T. H. DAVIS.