CANVASSING by Jos. Clarke

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 11, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 19.

CANVASSING

By Jos. Clarke

Of late it has been suggested that we send our late REVIEWS, SIGNS, HEALTH REFORMERS, YOUTH'S INSTRUCTORS, tracts, &c., to our absent friends and acquaintances, each generally accompanied by a letter or postal card, introducing the subject, and presenting the paper sent in a proper light.

This plan seems to us a very good way for many of us who are confined at home. We can take as many copies of our good papers as we feel disposed to send for, and then with a supply of postal cards, wrapping paper, mucilage, &c., we can with a very small outlay, send these winged messengers over the land and the sea to all our acquaintances.

Then we can write to our friends to give us names of those whose minds are studious; and we can keep as large a list as we please, by getting our neighbors to give us the names of their friends; then as our weeklies furnish us forty-six or forty-eight copies per year, and our monthlies twelve copies yearly, we can with sample copies reach very many, especially if we take a number of our papers for this purpose.

Here is A who takes one copy; he can send one every week, with a line, or postal card, making forty or fifty papers and letters per year, to as many different persons if he chooses. B takes five copies; he can send two hundred papers, and to as many persons if it is best; and C if he takes ten copies, can reach ten times as many as A can.

This is certainly an easy and a very cheap way of doing good; so that no one can be wholly excusable for inactivity; and if all unite in this work, who cannot serve the cause more directly in some better way, a great work will be done. It is not drudgery, but it is a high and holy pleasure to be a co-worker with God in the salvation of men. Jos. CLARKE.