Your ShelfYour Projects

An Experience Collecting Stamps

17%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 50.

Read the full edition

An Experience Collecting Stamps

IN the REVIEW a few months ago we noticed a call for our workers to collect canceled postage-stamps to be sent to Grand Rapids, Mich., and sold for the benefit of missions. We began to save what we could, and also asked others to help us make up a package. They were growing in numbers slowly.
Last week, after paying for a copy of “Great Controversy,” a woman said: “I want to ask you a question. We have a box of used postage-stamps that we have been collecting for years, and I want to know if you can sell them for your missionary work.”
I told her my story about collecting stamps, and we thanked the Lord together that she had been prompted to offer them. As she brought the stamps, a small box full, I saw there were thousands of them. Only a few have been classified, but they are of considerable value as a whole. Inspired by this, others have given us many stamps for the same purpose.
But this was not all. After a good talk we arranged for Bible studies, and now the whole family are interested in these studies.
Port Elizabeth, South Africa.