Various Matters by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 24, 1883

Various Matters.

By Editor

Those who wish a large quantity of any number of the SIGNS, should send their order so that it will reach us not later than Tuesday; if we receive the order later, we cannot furnish the extra quantity that week. Appointments should not reach us later than Sunday of the week they are designed to appear.

Elder Loughborough reports to the Review, that Bro. Drew's sales on shipboard at Hull, Eng., amounted to $38.00 in nine days; besides this a large number of publications were distributed free. Arrangements are being made to open a ship mission in Liverpool. The most favorable place that can be found will be selected for this work. Bro. Drew has had a good experience in ship missionary work, and we doubt not that an immense amount of good will be done, as the light goes forth from this center of commerce to every part of the world. May God speed the good work.

During the month of April, one canvasser in the North sold 260 copies of "Thoughts on Daniel and Revelation." Although but very few have been at work with this book, our stock is running so low that another edition will have to be printed soon, in order to supply the demand. This is a good work to engage in; we wish there were scores of persons canvassing for this book. All could find remunerative employment, and, what is more, do an incalculable amount of good. Where are the reapers?

Last week we made mention of the fact that Nebraska is doing active service in the missionary line, and stated that the State Society expected to increase their club of SIGNS to 1,000 copies. The order came soon after, but too late for last week's paper. Before that order could be placed on the list, an order came for 200 additional copies; and we have this day received an order to increase their club to 1,500. We have also received an order from the Battle Creek Society to increase their club to 1,200. We like to obey orders of this kind; they stimulate us to a desire to redouble our efforts to make the paper such that our friends can work for it with enthusiasm. May God bless the earnest missionary workers in the East.

We hope that the success attending the efforts of the workers in some parts of the East, will provoke the laborers in other parts of the country to similar good works. There is no place or State where similar or even greater results may not be obtained. A mind to work, a sincere love for the truth and the people, together with the aid of the Spirit, will accomplish wonders.

We think that there are thousands who have the first two qualifications, and we know that everybody may have the last for the asking. Our brethren in California have not yet systematically taken hold of the canvassing work, but as a sample of what may be done, one brother sends in thirty-six names as the result of a few hours' canvass. He is a laboring man, and canvassed only after work hours. Are there not hundreds who could do as well? "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to the harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal."