p. 15 | A Good Word From Mexico by J. A. P. Green

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Apr 1, 1909

A Good Word From Mexico

By J. A. P. Green

I AM favorably impressed that a self-supporting canvassing work can be established here in Mexico. Brother Brown’s first week in Tampico, a city of about nineteen thousand inhabitants, resulted in orders amounting to $77.75, mostly for “El Rey” (Coming King); his second week, $92.25. He is still doing well.

I canvassed two weeks there, after he had taken practically all the business section, and my first week’s work amounted to nearly seventy dollars. The people there seem very hungry for the truth.

Many would stop me on the street to tell of others who wanted my book. One who purchased the book saw me coming a block away, and waited for me. Upon reaching him, he grasped my hand, and told me in Spanish that I had a good book, and he hoped I would sell many more in the town.

This same man met me a day or so after, and called me into his house. He told me to go to a certain person’s house; but as he could not remember the number of the house, he took the price from his own pocket, and paid me for the book.

O, how I wished at that moment that I could speak the language, and explain to him this wonderful truth! How I pray that some dear soul will have a burden for this field! A grand missionary work can be done here.

J. A. P. GREEN, General Agent.