That wagons can be successfully employed by colporteurs and canvassers has been clearly demonstrated by the Illinois and Dakota Conferences. Illinois placed the first colporteur wagon in the field, Dakota the second. The Indiana and Wisconsin Conferences will each have a new colporteur wagon, laden with the pages of precious truth, visiting the homes of the people in their respective States soon.
The following article from the pen of Elder O. S. Ferren will tell you what the Nebraska Conference has done in the way of starting canvassers' wagons in the year 1900:—
Since arriving in Wyoming from the Nebraska Conference, the committee has taken hold of missionary work in Wyoming in good earnest. Four missionary wagons will be in the field this summer. Most of these wagons have been loaned or given by our brethren in Wyoming. One more wagon is in waiting, which we will make use of later on. These wagons are laden with books and tracts pertaining to the Third Angel's Message, and are to visit every house and sheep- and cattle-ranch in the country. This is a great undertaking and rather a new experience for this thinly settled country.
These wagons are in charge of Brethren E. L. Cook, who goes to the northwest to work that portion of the State; J. W. Beams, who goes into the Great Basin country lying between the Big Horn and Rocky Mountain ranges; and A. R. Barnes, who takes in the northeast and the Black Hills country. Brother Benerly Hace works the territory south, along the Union Pacific Railway, making his way to the southwest.
We hope our brethren everywhere will receive and help these brethren in their missionary work. They have sacrificed the comforts of their homes and families for the season, and come to this needy field a thousand miles away, cut off from the outside world, to meet the stern realities of doing pioneer missionary work in this mission field. Brethren, they need our prayers, and all the help and sympathy we can possibly render.
Elder L. V. Finster and his wife will move three hundred miles south and west of Cheyenne, in the Rocky Mountain region, to join me in the tent work, thus giving Wyoming five additional workers, and one to divide his time between Wyoming and the Black Hills.
Brother Jesse Cornish is canvassing for "Heralds of the Morning" in the middle portion of the State, with good success. We shall look for the blessing of God upon this well-begun work, and hope to see many souls gathered in by this means. We ask all to pray for this new enterprise.
