The Opportune Time

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

The Opportune Time

THAT the fall of the year is fully as good as summer or spring, if not better, for our field workers is being demonstrated beyond controversy by our faithful canvassers who are now in the field. In twenty-four hours a brother in Kansas took orders to the value of $81.75; the same week another brother obtained $71 worth of orders in thirty-five hours. Nor is such success confined to the middle West. From all parts of the field, most excellent reports are being received. In the Northwest several successful institutes have been held, resulting in small, but well-selected, trained companies of workers entering the field to push the work this fall and winter. Their reports show that the Lord is blessing, as he always does, the trained, consecrated worker in efforts to further his kingdom on the earth.

In some parts of the South the best canvassing season of the year is just opening, and the workers there are reaping a rich harvest.

Many are in the field, but there are hundreds of our people who are doing very little to advance the cause of truth, whose efforts are needed in this branch of God's work. The Lord is blessing with many rich experiences the work of those who have made a conscientious, faithful study of the art of Christian salesmanship, and the financial returns are such that we can truly say that the

canvasser is the most prosperous of any of the workers in the Lord's army.

There is still abundant opportunity to enter the field and make a large delivery before the holidays. Everything favors the worker who enters the field for the first time at this season of the year. People are ready to buy. They desire to secure books for gifts which contain something better than the light, trashy literature of the day, and our subscription books appeal to thinking people as filling this want. At this time of the year, people, especially those in the country districts, have more leisure than at any other time; the crops are harvested, and farmers are beginning to think of some good reading-matter for the long winter evenings, and are willing to spend money for the right kind of food for the mind. Everything points to this as the opportune time for bringing the glad news of a soon-coming Saviour to the attention of the people.

If through this monitor, the Lord is striving to show you in which direction the path of duty lies, and it points to the book work, now is the time for you to make a start. A letter to your State agent will bring him to your home, prepared to give you necessary training, and start you successfully as one of the “King's messengers.”

Now is the time for us to press the work as never before, while the Lord still holds the powers of darkness in abeyance.