QUEBEC by D. T. Bourdeau

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 2, 1900

QUEBEC

By D. T. Bourdeau

Since reporting in the REVIEW on the tract distribution, I have put forty dollars' worth of English and French tracts into circulation by mail and by personal efforts. While in Argenteuil County, I canvassed five townships with our small works, doing much visiting, giving Bible Readings, and now and then a discourse. I returned to Montreal in time to help prepare the way for, and take part in, the organization of a church, enjoying a pleasant season with Elder I. N. Williams and his wife.

I am now holding a few cottage meetings among the French, and purpose making a more general and thorough effort at tract distribution than I have hitherto been able to make. We now have on hand quite a large amount of tracts in different languages, especially in the French tongue, and are arranging to canvass Montreal with tracts and papers. A young man will aid me, taking one side of the street, while I take the other. I do not believe that even old laborers should play gentlemen in pushing young men into the field to do the work, and then take the credit for the work done, as has often been done by those of other denominations in this field. God forbid that even we old Seventh-day Adventist preachers should outgrow our primitive advent clothes in feeling above and neglecting the important work of getting our literature before the people, by personal efforts and by the mail, and by doing house-to-house work, as primitive evangelists used to do.

As a result of the French tract distribution, a professor of several languages is rejoicing in present truth, and is rendering good assistance in translating matter into French for other small tracts. I am thankful for what has been raised by our French brethren and by a few of other tongues, for this branch of the work. But I wish to call the attention of the readers of the REVIEW to one fact,—what has been credited in the REVIEW is not cash on hand, but simply what has been raised and expended. As for myself, I have none of this amount with which to meet expenses at this end of the line, and I am sure this is true of those at the other end of the line, at Battle Creek, who do the work of publishing. Therefore, while grateful for what has been done, I would further solicit the financial support of those who have at heart this important branch of the work. D. T. BOURDEAU.

836 St. Lawrence St., Montreal, Quebec.