Reviving the Old-Time Missionary Work
Elder S. M. Cobb, president of the West Virginia Conference, writes as follows: “Your letter in the interest of the ‘old-time’ missionary work being revived among us as a people, also bearing the sad news of the burning of the Review and Herald, came to hand several days ago. For two months or more I have been urging our people to take up this work, and they have been doing it cheerfully and enthusiastically. They are working mostly on the envelope plan. One small church took for their first order $7.14 worth of tracts, and a hundred copies of The Signs of the Times to use with them; and so the spirit of labor seems to be inspiring our people. I love this kind of missionary zeal and labor, and shall do all I can to raise this work to the place it should occupy, and to inspire in the hearts of our people the true spirit of the third angel’s message. I shall keep before them the important fact that this message must be given to the world in this generation.”