Some Interesting Correspondence
ROME, N. Y., March 6, 1902. DEAR BROTHER MAGAN: I desire to thank you for your letters concerning the good work in the Lake Union Conference. We are making use of them in our State paper. We rejoice in the success of the work. We are with you in this work. We are not sitting on the fence and watching the procession go by; we are in it. We are devoting this entire month, and longer if necessary, to this work of selling “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Every conference laborer is in the field canvassing, and helping others to get started. We have sent out circular letters by the hundred to our churches, and they are taking hold well. Orders are coming in from our workers and from churches for five, ten, twenty-five, fifty, or more copies. This week’s Indicator will give you some idea of the work. All the churches are waking up. In Rome we have recently organized the church, which meets each evening to study the book and canvass. The city has been divided, and each one has taken territory. Books are being sold. Nobody is exempt; all are expected to work. Some who have been invalids for weeks, and even for months, have left the couch, and gone to their neighbors to sell a book. Every milkman and grocer is canvassed by zealous workers, who are doing all they can to dispose of their quotas. We are seeking to impress all with the solemn responsibilities of their quota. Some workers who formerly sold but few books have heartily engaged in this work, and have received a blessing. We expect to keep on until the work is done. We have also just laid plans for a canvassers’ institute, and expect that this will give a new impetus to the work in the State. We are in the field with you, my brother, to do all we can, and do not expect to lay off the armor until the victory is won. We long to sing that jubilee song. G. B. THOMPSON. DEAR BROTHER MAGAN: A number of churches have already ordered their full quota. The friends in Milwaukee took orders for one hundred and eighty-seven books last week, if I remember the number correctly. That church has ordered its full quota already, which amounts to nearly six hundred copies. I think Madison has done the same, taking two hundred copies. Sturgeon Bay has ordered one hundred and fifty-two, which makes its full quota. Sand Prairie has ordered one hundred and twenty, thus filling its quota. Marshfield has made its quota, and so has Wausau. Rose Lawn has more than filled its quota. I got word from Stoughton, yesterday, saying that they would see that their number is made up. Birnamwood, lately organized, has also come to the front with a full quota. Hillsdale, where we are just organizing a church, will also fill its quota. In Bethel the work is going slowly. There are many inconveniences in territory, and several of our number have been absent, working in the woods; but we expect to keep this subject in the front, and to go forward until we cross Jordan. Your brother in Christ, Wm. Covert.