THOMAS H. DAVIS by Thomas H. Davis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 10, 1910

THOMAS H. DAVIS

By Thomas H. Davis

Chile

I AM now in Valparaiso with Robert Tapia, one of our young canvassers. He had been working country towns, selling small books with good success. Monday I helped him start his list. We went to Baron, the largest railway station, and I presented the book at the office window of one of the employees. He took the book to look at it, so that left me on the outside of the small window. How to get hold of that book again was rather a puzzle; but I just took my hat off, and crawled about halfway through the hole, and said, “Let me show you what it contains.” Soon several other young men came to see what it was, and I soon had five orders, three for “Coming King,” and two for “Patriarchs and Prophets.” One man who gave his order for both made the remark, “What is fifteen pesos compared with salvation?” I think there are better days for the canvassing work here.

Brother Tapia tried canvassing alone in the afternoon, and when he came home, I counted the orders for the day on his list, and he had forty-six. That isn't bad for a Chileno boy. He is sticking right at it. This morning before dinner he took eleven orders. I think we shall have a few more canvassers soon for the large cities. Valparaiso is just like a beehive. The city that was destroyed by the earthquake is being rebuilt. One of the boys who sells papers sold the Signs of the Times to the president of the republic the other day.