What One Small Church Is Doing
In a recent letter, Elder Wm. Covert mentions the experience of a little church of but fifteen members, which is doing work equal to that of experienced canvassers, and work marked with the approval of the Master:— “Besides maintaining a small church school, the brethren and sisters are doing a large work in selling our books and papers. They have set out to canvass the city of over thirty thousand people for all our books and many of our periodicals. They take five hundred copies of The Life Boat, which the little folks sell, the proceeds being used very largely in the support of the church school. They took six hundred copies of the special Danish paper, and have a club of the Signs. A short time before I visited them, they had ordered fifty copies of ‘The House We Live In,’ and a like number of ‘Best Stories,’ and had sold fully half of them before I arrived. While I was there, they ordered twenty copies of ‘Story of Redemption,’ eighteen copies of ‘Ladies’ Guide,’ and twelve copies of ‘Man, the Masterpiece.’ The commission on all these books is to go into a building fund which is being raised for the purpose of either purchasing or erecting a church building. The work they are doing keeps the church in splendid spiritual condition, while it places before the people the best reading-matter in the world; and in addition to all this, is providing funds which will enable the church to possess a building of its own. Could not many other churches do a similar work?”