F. JENCKS by F. JENCKS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1902

F. JENCKS

By F. JENCKS

Nebraska

On the invitation of the general canvassing agent of the Central Union Conference, I present the report of the canvassing work in this State for the Publishers’ department of the REVIEW.

The season is opening up favorably in Nebraska this year. We are having plenty of rain, and growing crops of all kinds look well. Our few faithful canvassers are doing well, though some of them have had quite a hard time to get started. We had an average of about fifteen canvassers during the month of April. Their orders and helps amounted to a little over nine hundred dollars. We have had an average of nineteen canvassers during May, and their orders and sales reached nearly two thousand dollars. So we thank God and take courage. We have one canvasser selling “The Desire of Ages;” two, “Great Controversy;” four, “Daniel and the Revelation;” three, “Home on Hand-Book;” seven, “The Marvel of Nations;” two, “Heralds of the Morning.”

Our faithful Wyoming colporteurs, Brethren Cook and Beams, have just started on their third season’s work in that part of the field.

We greatly feel the need of more agents to work with “The Desire of Ages,” as two of our canvassers who had done well with that book have been deported to labor in foreign fields, and one is at present employed by the conference in the work with “Christ’s Object Lessons.”

We could also employ fifty or seventy-five more agents for “Home Hand-Book,” as our good territory for that book is only limited by our conference lines, and the agents we have are doing well. We would also be glad if a large number of our brethren and sisters who could realize the importance of it, would engage in canvassing for “Patriarchs and Prophets.” But few copies of this excellent book have been sold in our conference, and now is an opportune time to sell it.

We have hoped that the campaign with “Christ’s Object Lessons” which is now being vigorously carried on by our conference laborers and many of our people throughout the conference, may result in creating an interest in, and a love for, the canvassing work, so that our force of canvassers may be greatly increased. To this end we ask that all our people everywhere pray for the canvassers and the canvassing work. And if any feel impressed by the Spirit of the Lord to join us, we trust that they will not quench the Spirit, but, as did the prophet of old, immediately respond, “Here am I; send me.”