p. 18 | Cheering Experiences in Canvassing by Walter Harper

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 1, 1912

Cheering Experiences in Canvassing

By Walter Harper

It is now only six and one-half weeks since I began to canvass in Arizona, having left that “earthly paradise,” Loma Linda, Cal., on Nov. 27, 1911. In these brief weeks the blessed Master has surely heard prayer and wrought most wonderfully. I seek God much in prayer, and am thankful for his many tokens of love and care. I know that the loved ones I left behind remember the work here at the throne of grace. In this short time the Lord, out of his overflowing heart of love, granted me success in taking over four hundred ten orders for books, helps, etc., amounting to $1,225 in value, besides over $100 for “Ministry of Healing” and over $50 for Spanish “New Testament Primers” and “Steps to Christ.” I expect that the work of these six and one-half weeks will total about $1,500.

I began my delivery this week, for the time had come when I must look after that part of the work. The first day of delivery I canvassed some, for it was hard to break off. I was blessed in taking $28 in new orders, aside from books delivered. I have never combined a delivery and a canvass this way before, but it seemed as if the orders came providentially in my path, so I had to gather them in. They are still coming, and I can hardly avoid more orders.

After the close of the Sabbath last week, I took my lantern and went off in the dark to canvass among the Mexican families. I was soon blessed in taking four orders, amounting to $9.65, for our good books, or an order at nearly every house. The week preceding that, after the passing of Sabbath, I went out with my light among the hills and rocks to present our books to the people. In a little over an hour the good Master gave me four orders, amounting to $14.

This is chiefly among Mexicans and Spanish-speaking people. It is astonishing how the Spirit of God is working just now with the Spanish people the world over. I never saw anything like it. It is a marvelous change from a few years ago. Surely God is now calling this race, and they are responding to his call. They almost come to me on the street to buy the books. WALTER HARPER.