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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 17, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 11.

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Notes of Progress

By C. W. Flaiz

ONE conference president writes, “I have sold 237 of the books, besides the number I have sold to the members of our own churches.”
The following is the experience of a German brother in the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” I submit his own words: “First, as I heard about selling ‘Christ’s Object Lessons,’ I thought this is a great way to do, but didn’t think I would come in any ways near the work. But as Brother —— came here with his books, and wanted us to take part in the work, I couldn’t see it at all that the Lord wanted us or me to do such work. I worked hard against it, but felt very uneasy about it, and said I would give the twenty-five dollars, but not sell one book. Brother —— said that was not what the Lord wanted. So I didn’t know what to do. I saw that I either had to obey, or I would work against the work that my brethren were doing,—I would have to talk against the work in my family, and so on. I saw that brought darkness in my home. So I said to my dear family we had to pray to the Lord for him to guide us in this work. So we prayed, and the dear Lord helped us. Before I went out, I called my family, and we prayed to the Lord—my wife and —— and myself. Then I went out right in my neighborhood and sold eight ‘Object Lessons’ the very first day. Then the next day I sold nine. So a great blessing came to us in our family; instead of darkness, the shining light came over us. I have sold forty ‘Object Lessons’—sixteen for Brother ——, four for Brother ——, and twenty of my own. Thank the Lord that he showed us that we must obey him as his children, and anything the Lord wants us to do now, we are willing to do. The blessing we have been having since the conference is great. I have done a little work most every day, but I feel so weak and little in this work! Often we seek the Lord, and praise his name, and he hears us wonderfully. I often think what is next that the Lord will want us to do.”
C. W. FLAIZ.