W. H. GRANGER by W. H. Granger

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 8, 1903

W. H. GRANGER

By W. H. Granger

Ohio

CINCINNATI.—The work in this great city is moving as never before. We are now beginning to reap the fruit of our summer’s work. September 5 six precious souls were buried with their Lord in baptism, and others will soon be baptized. In our work this summer we have been using The Family Bible Teacher. This is a neat little four-page paper, containing a single Bible reading on some subject of present truth. There are twenty-eight of these lessons. They begin with the foundation principles of the gospel, and advance in a systematic way until all important points in the message are covered. This course has been specially prepared for house-to-house work. Last May we began here in Cincinnati to distribute about eleven hundred of these lessons each week. We selected our territory, and then visited every home once each week, leaving a Bible lesson. We began the first week with Number I, then followed it the next week with Number II, and so on with the entire course. The number of readers has gradually dropped off, until we now have about eight hundred families, most of whom are deeply interested. We are now delivering the eighteenth lesson, and the interest seems to deepen as the testing truths come. I have been teaching, by this method, over three hundred families each week, and it has been the happiest experience of my life.

The people soon become acquainted with the worker, and look for him each week. Nearly every member of our church has taken an active part in this grand work, each handling from five to forty copies a week. We have rented one of the best halls in this city for Sunday night meetings, where all these people will be invited to hear the living preacher. We are also planning to distribute a thousand or more of these lessons each week on the street, with an invitation to the meetings stamped on the margin. As soon as we have delivered our last lesson in the course, we shall immediately take new territory and repeat the same course. The interest of the previous readers will be followed up with the Signs.

The entire course of twenty-eight lessons will be out by the first week in October; and that all our people may become acquainted with this course of readings, they are invited to send ten cents to The Family Bible Teacher, 3222 Warsaw Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, and receive, postpaid, a full set of these lessons. While practically no effort has been made up to the present to introduce the use of these lessons among our churches, yet the interest in the course has been such, by those who have known of its preparation, that we have found it necessary to print, on an average, over seven thousand lessons a week to meet the demand.