p. 707 | Canvassing Report from Prescott: Orders and Deliveries

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 29, 1901

Canvassing Report from Prescott: Orders and Deliveries

By I. Ernest Bond; Frank S. Bond

PRESCOTT.— We have nothing but an encouraging report to make. We are continually confronted with evidences that the guiding hand of our great Captain is directing our course and crowning our efforts with success.

Since our last report $321.80 worth of orders have been taken, at times about $60 worth, or even more than that, being taken in one day. The harvest truly is white. It certainly is a source of extreme pleasure to the God-fearing canvasser, as he unfolds the grand and glittering truths contained in those heaven-inspired works, “The Desire of Ages” and “Christ’s Object Lessons,” to observe how readily the sin-parched soul drinks them in. If you cannot appreciate this as being really the case, hesitating brother or sister, just launch out for yourself into the field of activity with some one of these good books. Take a “lay off” from your usual vocations. Go out into the byways and hedges for a few weeks, and canvass, and thus share in getting the last message of mercy to the dying world. If you do this, there will come rushing into your life blessings which only the worker together with Christ can experience, and doubtless other souls will be saved in the glorious kingdom above on account of your efforts.

We have just completed a very successful delivery. Out of orders amounting to $266.80 only six were lost.

While one of us was retracing the road already traveled, to deliver the books ordered, the other made a four days’ tour of Verde Valley. This is a long, narrow valley, through the center of which flows a beautiful little river known by the same name. A narrow strip of land on either side of the river is made very productive by its life-giving waters.

As we look at the beautiful fields of alfalfa, the thrifty orchards and vineyards, away out here in the midst of a barren desert, and realize that it is only the water of this stream which produces the contrast, we long to be the means in the hand of God of administering to the many souls all around us, which are vastly more barren than even these arid wastes, the life-giving waters, of which, if a man drink, he shall never thirst.

The Lord blessed the work in this valley, giving for the four days’ work orders to the amount of almost eighty dollars.

After making our delivery in Prescott the first of next week, we expect to go to Skull Valley, about twenty miles distant.

There is a brother and family living here who desire to have some work done, so, besides canvassing, we hope to hold a few meetings and do Bible work, and thus awaken an interest in others to know more of God.

We desire an interest in the prayers of all God’s people, for if there ever was a field where the worker needed the power of God and heavenly wisdom, it is here.

I. ERNEST BOND.

FRANK S. BOND.