Have You Started in the Good Work Yet?
By S. H. Lane
Our printing offices have on their shelves several thousand copies of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” waiting for some one to sell them. Now is the time. There will not be a better time during the present season than just before the holidays. People are now looking for Christmas presents. A good book is a splendid present. Will not our workers everywhere recommend this book, and sell thousands of copies between now and Christmas? The book is going well wherever our people are working for it. A worker in England, W. C. Sisley, writes as follows:— “Last night on my way home I delivered a copy of “Christ’s Object Lessons” to a well-to-do shopkeeper. He was so well pleased with the book and the object for which I was selling it that he took four more copies, which he proposed to sell or to give to his friends. “After remaining home a few minutes, I started out again, and made six calls, selling four books. It took some little self-denial to leave my cozy fireside, but I felt amply repaid, for by selling these books I have been able to secure thirty-two shillings for the school fund, comfort a gentleman who had just lost his daughter, encourage a struggling young man who is supporting his mother, and impress a worldly merchant with the uncertainty of riches, and his need of Christ; none of which I could have done had I stayed at home.” The proceeds of the book in England are to establish a school, while in this country the proceeds will help pay the debts on our schools. You will note the missionary work that the worker did, as suggested by the preceding quotation. The work can be done in this country, and thus a threefold object be attained. When the book is got out, money will be brought in to help our educational institutions, and missionary work will be done. This indeed is a noble work. Reader, are you trying it? If not, will you not begin immediately? S. H. LANE.