Sunday Canvassing

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1902

“Sunday Canvassing”

UNDER this heading, there appeared last week in the Silent Messengers’ department a good article containing many important suggestions to agents with regard to improving their time by working on Sundays.

For several years our agents in Great Britain have spent their Sundays selling Present Truth, holding Bible readings, and doing general gospel work wherever the way might open. Why should we not improve Sunday as faithfully as any other working day? After long experience, our agents have found that they can sell papers and do general missionary work on Sunday as well as on any other day. Nearly all the best agents in Great Britain sell at least one hundred copies of Present Truth each Sunday. There are doubtless many places where large books can be sold on Sunday if the agent has sufficient wisdom and tact to enable him to do so without leaving any bad impressions upon the minds of the people. We should exercise great care upon this point, for we must do unto others as we would be done by, and not give the impression that we are irreligious, having no regard for a rest day. Those who do not know our belief or practice might be led to think that we work seven days in the week. Our agents should guard this point with much care. Yet there is no excuse for idleness on Sunday. In some places we can sell or deliver books; in most places we can sell papers; and in all places we can go out as Christian workers to read the Bible to those who need its light, and talk to, and pray for, those who may be comforted by our visits.