An Encouraging Letter by J. S. WASHBURN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 21, 1907

An Encouraging Letter

By J. S. WASHBURN

Two members of the Nashville church have been having wonderful success in selling our papers in the cities of the South. Under date of January 1, at Atlanta, Ga., they write:—

“From the time we left Nashville the last of November, up to December 31, or eighteen days’ work, we have sold three thousand papers, lacking forty, and have been in ten cities, so that traveling and locating have taken time also. Last Saturday evening, after the Sabbath, we sold the special Watchman in Montgomery, Ala., ninety-seven in all. We sold at ten cents a copy, to devote the proceeds to the $150,000 fund.

“We expect to be in Atlanta till January 15, as we have fifteen hundred copies ordered for this place. We sold fourteen hundred here last year in seven days. ‘The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.’”

With $15.60 in tithe, these sisters enclose five dollars each for the $150,000 fund. There are those who think that by engaging in some worldly business they will be able to give more to the cause of God, but the more prosperity in the world a man has, the less he seems to be able to give.

Is not this the highest kind of business capacity, the bringing of the truth before a large number, the salvation of their souls, and through the proceeds gifts to the cause of God? Are there not many whose hearts prompt them now to go and do likewise, at least to do as far as God gives ability and opportunity? He will do great things, beyond all that we can ask or think, for those who step out upon his promises.

J. S. WASHBURN.