TO T. AND M. CANVASSERS.
By J. N. Ayers
As you go from place to place obtaining subscribers for our periodicals, be sure to find all the Sabbath-keepers, and see that they are taking the REVIEW and Good Health. Many who have just moved into our State, and are living in out-of-the-way places, do not know how the message is spreading. Hunt them up, call on them, talk with them, pray with them. Many of them are nearly or quite asleep. They must be aroused to a sense of duty, or they will be lost, and the blood of their neighbors will be found on their garments. When you have succeeded in thoroughly awakening them to their danger, and in getting them to read our publications, you can begin to work for outsiders, with hopes of doing them some good. But there is little hope of benefiting the latter while there are those in the same community who profess to be S. D. Adventists, and yet live like the world around them, eating swine's flesh, chewing tobacco, or drinking tea and coffee, but not taking our publications, not belonging to the T. and M. society,—living outside of the church, perhaps with letters in their pockets. If you cannot arouse them from their stupor, you had better leave that community and go where we are not known, or where there is a live S. D. Adventist, who reads and keeps up with the times. Let our canvassers and T. and M. workers, make an extra effort this month to hunt up all Sabbath-keepers who are not taking the REVIEW and Good Health, and induce them to subscribe. Let each director take hold of this work in his district, and not stop until he knows that every family has these periodicals to read. Let the worthy poor be supplied through the T. and M. society, if the church to which they belong cannot help them. Do not put this off, for next month all will be busy with the spring's work; and if you do not attend to it now, a great many of our people will know nothing about our general meetings next spring, and the appeals that will be made through the REVIEW, while they are the ones above all others that should know. We are anxious to see the cause in Kansas prosper this year. In order to see prosperity, we as a people must arouse and put on the whole armor, and make steady advancement. May we be found with oil in our lamps when Jesus comes.