Interesting Statistics by C. F. Dart

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 4, 1906

Interesting Statistics

By C. F. Dart

THE following are some of the statistics of literature distribution presented at the South Carolina camp-meeting at Cowpens, August 9-19:—

For the seven months of the present year to August 1 the canvassers have worked 5,860 hours, taken 4,442 orders (this averages eight orders a day), delivered 2,397 books, large and small, valued at $1,670.15. They have about 2,000 orders yet to deliver. One brother alone has 1,300 deliveries to make.

Since the last camp-meeting a year ago, the canvassers have placed 1,100,000 pages of “present truth,” valued at $2,539.70, in the homes of the people. This is about five pages to every family in the State. The profit per hour is 15 4-5 cents for books already in the hands of the people. Adding to this undelivered books (after deducting the time and expense of delivering, and a liberal amount for probable failures in delivering), we find the profits per hour to amount to twenty-two cents.

We give the Lord all the glory for this. We have not had the natural canvasser nor the gifted and talented men, but have had consecrated, God-fearing agents, those who were seeking perishing souls, those who were faithful in their work and faithful in reporting.

This is new territory, and there is plenty of room for any who might wish to join us in the good work here.

C. F. Dart, Field Agent.

Campobello, S. C.