A Working Company by M. J. Fritz

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1903

A Working Company

By M. J. Fritz

PATCHOGUE, N. Y., June 21, 1903.

DEAR BRETHREN: I will give you a short report of the work in Patchogue, L. I. I came here with my family last December. We subscribed for ten copies of The Signs of the Times; after we had ten readers, we doubled the number. We soon had readers for the twenty, and so doubled the number again.

By that time a sister who is sixty-five years of age, and had partially recovered from a severe illness, came up to the help of the Lord, although it was hard for her to get around. We ordered twenty copies more, making sixty in all, and we shall keep adding as the Lord prospers us. This sister sells twenty or more each week, and keeps increasing her number as the Lord gives her strength and opportunity. My wife, and son, who is twelve years old, sell and distribute the rest.

Many of our readers express their appreciation of the paper by telling us that it is the best paper that ever came to their house. With the help of the Lord we expect to place the Signs in every home where it will be read; for we ourselves believe that it gives the trumpet a certain sound, and will accomplish that for which it is sent.

Although we may not reap the harvest, we are glad to have a part in tilling the fallow soil, of sowing a seed here and there, and of watering that which is about to wither.

Pray for the lonely Sabbath-keepers in Patchogue.

M. J. FRITZ.