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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 29, 1910

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The following letters from Brother W. W. Eastman, which accompanied his reports for July and August, show how the Lord blesses faithful effort, even in the face of most forbidding circumstances. We trust that all our book men, especially, will read these items carefully:—

“Here we come with our July report. This is the largest report we have ever made in July. You will notice we are more than a thousand dollars ahead of our report two years ago, when we had five weeks in July. I think we can also promise you a good report for August. I am now in the midst of the West Texas camp-meeting. The drought is something terrible in this part of the State. There are thousands of farmers who will raise absolutely nothing, and his will be forced to leave their homes, and go to other parts. I am writing this while sitting in the big tent during meeting. There is not a blade of grass to be seen. The ground is as bare as the floor,—nothing green to be seen except the leaves on the mesquit trees. Yet we are happy and of good courage, and amid it all the work is going forward with success in this conference. I think a good many of the brethren who have made nothing farming will go to selling books in other sections, where there are crops. So, as I tell the people, the tribulations that have befallen them, have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel.”

“Here is our August report. As the monk said to Frederick of Saxony in his dream in answer to his question as to why his pen was so strong, ‘I am somewhat surprised at it myself.’ I freely confess these figures are beyond my expectations by $3,000. But, as I grow older, and learn more of the Lord and his ways, I am not so much surprised to see him do great things. Truly this is the Lord’s work, and it is marvelous in our eyes.”