J. C. ROGERS by J. C. Rogers

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 13, 1902

J. C. ROGERS

By J. C. Rogers

ARE you fearful and afraid? Remember that “ministering angels will be round about” you as you undertake this work.

NEXT to the direct help of God, remember that nothing will help you so much in selling books as to read for yourself a few pages every day in the book.

IT has been proved that our brethren and sisters can sell more of these books among their neighbors, friends, and business acquaintances than a stranger can. It has been done by a busy business man among our brethren.

LET the librarian, in each company where the members take books to sell, manifest a personal interest in every one, seeking to encourage and help each. Here is an opportunity for the librarian to become educated for more efficient service, and remember that the best way to encourage and help another is to do some of that same work yourself.

LIBRARIANS should also feel under obligations to see that all the books are paid for, and that the money is in the hands of the conference treasurer before camp meeting. It is wiser to spend five cents sending money than to run the risk of losing it. Above all things let us all be careful not to incur debt in this effort to cancel debts and raise money for the Lord’s work.

IN a certain city of Ontario it had been said that these books could not be sold. In that very city more were sold in a short time than in any other place I have heard of in the conference. One brother sold and took orders for seven books in one day, before, after, and during business hours; and I think his business did not suffer either. The writer sold as high as eight in one day, in that same city.