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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 19.

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Our Banner Day

By E. E. Miles

OUR banner day is the day when we reach the highest point, when we accomplish the most, when we excel. Which day in the week shall we choose for our banner day? The apostle Paul says, “When I am weak, then am I strong.” Through the spirit of prophecy we are told that, in point of character, our weakest points may be made our strongest points. Unquestionably our weak day is Monday, not because it is wash day, nor because there are great obstacles in the way of meeting the people on Monday, but because of the little, simple matter of dread, disinclination, lack of enthusiasm. The canvasser has been out of the field for two days, and by relaxation has come to feel timid and weak; he needs a tonic, such as would be afforded by fixing upon Monday as the banner day of all the week. Why not work more hours and with more intense activity on this day than on any other day? You have just had two days and three nights of rest. All you have to do is to overcome a little mental difficulty; you are physically rested and physically strong; now let the mind be braced for business by a settled, fixed, determined purpose to be at the place to begin canvassing just a little earlier on Monday than on other days (go to your field on Sunday if the distance is great), and to make this day count for success at every turn. Do this, and your success as a canvasser is assured; banner Mondays makebanner weeks. The ice must be broken every week, and if it is not done on Monday, it remains to be broken on Tuesday, after another day’s freezing. Unless we get it thoroughly broken up and cleared away by a genuine thaw on the first day out, it will be drifting around on our little sea of operations all the week, to block our way, and to keep us from having clear sailing at any time. How many of our canvassers will make Monday their banner day for the spring and summer of 1902? — E. E. Miles, in Keystone Gleaner.