Something for Everybody.
By E. R. Palmer
We have reached the eleventh hour, and the call is repeated, “Go work to-day in my vineyard.” There are times which seem especially opportune for a general forward movement, and at such times God’s Spirit goes out through the earth, and calls His people to the work in hand. That Spirit is now working in a most striking manner among Seventh-day Adventists throughout the world, and thousands are being impressed with the importance of doing something in a definite way at once in behalf of the circulation of our literature. In nearly every Conference in the United States, a simultaneous movement has started in this direction, and the call is being sounded from every quarter, “Something for everybody!” “Come; for all things are now ready!” The Spirit of God has said that where there is one canvasser, there should be one hundred. In each State at the present time there are from five to twenty canvassers; therefore there should be from five hundred to two thousand in each State. But this number would include practically the entire membership, therefore this statement can mean nothing less than that every Seventh-day Adventist, whether minister, Bible worker, regular canvasser, or lay member, should become an active agent for the circulation of our literature. This is the thought with which thousands are being impressed. All things are prepared for such a movement as this. We have tracts, pamphlets, and books, varying in price from one cent to nine dollars or more, and within this range can be found something for every man, woman, and child in this denomination to sell, loan, or give away. The eleventh-hour call is emphatically a call to service. The time is far spent. There is only a little while for work; and while the Spirit of God is moving and co-operating with us, let us arise and do something. Write to your tract society secretary, the president of your Conference, or to your State agent for information and for assistance. Also, dear brethren and sisters, we want you to repeat this call until it has been sounded in every ear throughout the world. God has said that the time has come for us to engage in the tract, periodical, and book work again, and press it forward as never before; and with His help and blessing we are responding to the call, and intend to scatter these precious pages of truth like “the leaves of autumn.” Who will join us? Sec. Gen. Conf. Publishing Committee.