p. 21 | Notes of Progress

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1903

Notes of Progress

Elder William Covert, president of the Wisconsin Conference, has taken the field personally with “Christ’s Object Lessons.” His plan is to hold meetings in a new field, in a town called Symo, and while there to dispose of as many of the books as possible. The people are always glad to see the leaders actually out in the work.

The Western Washington Conference has received its quota of 5,000 books, and has disposed of all but 1,200 of them. The work is being pushed with the hope of completing it by the time of the General Conference. One man in Seattle took thirteen books at a venture, but after selling these, he ordered eighty-seven more, thus becoming responsible for the sale of one hundred books.

In a recent letter Elder Santee, president of the Southern California Conference, says: “We have instituted a special effort to have all the churches finish this canvass by the time of the General Conference. We had hoped to see our quota completed by the first of the year, but as we were disappointed in this, we lengthened the time to the General Conference. We will do all we can to close up the work by that time.”

Iowa expects to complete the sale of its entire quota of “Christ’s Object Lessons” at an early date.

The president of the Arkansas Conference reports that they are doing something in the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” but that they will need the stimulus of another cotton harvest to complete their work.

The Southern Illinois Conference still has 2,000 books to dispose of. The brethren were a little late in getting their campaign started. The State agent writes that Illinois is a splendid field for the sale of “Christ’s Object Lessons.”

North Carolina has sold 700 of its 1,350 quota of “Christ’s Object Lessons.” Brother W. L. Killen, who has charge of the work in that State, says that he has sold 257 copies, besides the number placed in the hands of our own people. The work is being pushed with earnestness, and it is hoped to complete it during the present campaign.

A letter just received gives the experience of an elderly couple, as follows: “When the call to sell ‘Christ’s Object Lessons’ was first brought to our church, my wife and I thought that it did not mean us; for I was very lame, and she is blind. But when a second call came, and the brethren began to take their books, we could not stand it, so we ordered ten copies. When they came, I had my horse and buggy brought to the door. We put the books in the buggy, and when we came to a house, I would hold the horse, and tell my wife how to get to the house. We sold a book in nearly every house. We can truly say it is a blessed work.” C. W. FLAIZ.