Encouraging Outlook in the Central Union
By W. A. Colcord
THERE are evidences that new life is coming into the canvassing work throughout the field. The canvassers’ institutes which have been held recently have been well attended, and from them a large number of canvassers are going out to engage in the work. The Pacific Union Recorder of April 23 says: “The outlook for a successful year in circulating the printed page in western Oregon and western Washington is very encouraging.” Reporting a twelve-hours’ experience, A. S. McCully, writing to the Southwestern Union Record, says: “I recently made a trip to visit some canvassers in the field, and while out, spent twelve hours canvassing for ‘Coming King’ with the following results: exhibitions given, twenty-seven; orders taken, twenty-five; value, $31.50. I never saw the people more willing to buy books than at the present. The season is now advancing nicely, and prospects are bright. Let us who are canvassers press our work by putting in faithful time.” A large number of canvassers have gone into the field in Kansas. A good number are to go out this summer in Nebraska, and following the canvassers’ institute to be held at Union College the latter part of May, many students expect to engage in the canvassing work during vacation, in the different conferences in the Central Union. Some of our brightest and best students in the college are by this means making their way through school. And we do not know of a better way they could do it. So, altogether, the outlook for the canvassing work is encouraging. More attention is being given to this work than has been given to it for some time, and we may expect to see gratifying results.