Still Conquering Difficulties
The following paragraphs are selected from a letter recently received from the general agent of Australasia:— “You will be pleased to learn that notwithstanding the difficulties we have had to face through the long-continued drought, the blessing of the Lord has rested upon our agents, and has not only kept our work up, but has enabled them to sell more books during the past year than at any time before in this field. “You will think I have said a good deal in my letters from time to time about the drought in Australia. But I would not have you think that we talk drought very much here, except it be in a way to show how wonderfully God can use even the very difficulties and obstacles in our way for furthering and blessing the work in which we are engaged. I am glad indeed that the success of this work is not dependent upon surrounding circumstances. If it were, I believe our workers would have been discouraged long ago; for in many places the situation is becoming more and more serious. In New South Wales it is practically only the coast line that is not seriously affected by the long-continued dry season. We had some rain a little while ago that made things look promising, but we have not had sufficient to bring any great relief to the drought-stricken portions of the country. “It is truly marvelous how our work has not only kept up, but the output of our literature has steadily increased. In some places it seems as if the various difficulties have caused the people to inquire, ‘What do these things mean?’ and when our books have been presented, they have been eager to obtain them.”