Canvassing in North Carolina by HORACE G. MILLER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 20, 1906

Canvassing in North Carolina

By HORACE G. MILLER

IN response to my article in the REVIEW of October 18, on canvassing in North Carolina, several interesting and very encouraging letters have been received. Numerous questions have been asked, and these I have gladly answered. No doubt many others who have not written are thinking of coming to this needy and unworked field, and have questions in their minds concerning the needs, conditions, advantages, difficulties, etc. Now I shall not attempt to consider these questions, though it might be in part profitable.

Did Noah ask concerning the difficulties to be met and the possibilities of gaining converts?—No; Noah had a message that he knew must be given, and he fearlessly and faithfully proclaimed it. Had Moses been informed of the difficulties and heart anguish he was to meet, he doubtless would have shrunk from the task of leading that rebellious people into the land of Canaan.

It was not the ignorance of the Ninevites nor their wickedness that Jonah feared, but that the Lord would repent of the threatened judgment. He paid his own fare to his field of labor, and even extra fare. Some of us are afraid to venture thus far to give the last warning message to a neglected field lying right at our door. On pages 60, 61, Vol. VIII of the “Testimonies,” we are told that the Southern field has been for years neglected, and has been touched only with the tips of our fingers. Again: “There is in this country a great, unworked field. . . . This broad field lies before us unworked.”—Id., page 205. Please read pages 34 and 150 of the same volume.

Do you wish to know something about the people here? Then please be sure to read Isa. 60:2 and Eze. 2:3-8. Do you wish to know whether you can get a living here? If so, please read Matt. 20:4, 7; Amos 5:6; and Ps. 37:16, 25. Can not we believe these precious promises fully and step out by faith upon his Word?

My dear brethren, it is not correspondence we are courting, but your help in this neglected field. Thirty counties in North Carolina have been practically untouched, and in as many others but very little has been done in circulating our books. Nothing but a full surrender to God will solve these questions pertaining to this field, but that will certainly do it.

The harvest is overripe, and the message overdue. Who will answer God's call to this neglected field?

HORACE G. MILLER.

Gastonia, N. C.