p. 22 | Victories in Selling "Ministry of Healing"

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 3, 1912

Victories in Selling "Ministry of Healing"

By Walter Harper

I can report blessings in selling the good relief book "Ministry of Healing." The Lord does hear and answer prayer. On a recent long canvassing trip in eastern Arizona, I was favored in delivering nearly $150 worth of "Ministry of Healing" in addition to my regular canvassing work. I see marked evidence of God's tender care, and of his loving hand over our work to crown it with success.

I began to sell the relief book "Christ's Object Lessons" in 1903. Later I added "Ministry of Healing." Most of the time for the last nine years I have added these two relief books to my regular canvassing work as a part of it. I try to get one or more orders a day for these books, besides doing my regular work. In these years I have tested the plan in eight different States, and have been prospered in selling hundreds of these priceless books. I have got from one to six orders a day for "Object Lessons." One day I took twelve orders in three hours, and have taken as high as ten a day for "Ministry of Healing." This was in addition to my allotted canvassing work.

I have had many blessings, and have had many bright and varied experiences in this work. It has taught me lessons of faith in God, of his minute control over all things earthly, that are truly encouraging and strengthening. The yoking of this relief-book work with my allotted tasks has seemed to bring in a flood of blessings, success, and triumph to the regular work.

How glad I would be if I could see our young and successful canvassers connect this relief-book work with their regular canvassing work, and sell one or two of these books a day as missionary work for the Lord. It would bring light to their own souls. It would prove a triple blessing,—a blessing to those who buy the book, a blessing to the one who sells it, and a blessing in relieving our schools and sanitariums. I take "Ministry of Healing" on one trip, and "Christ's Object Lessons" on the next trip. I have been alternating with these for a year.

I am now up in northern California, and am getting a number of orders for "Christ's Object Lessons." At a mill town where I am now, I called on a German, the head cook in a large boarding-house. He gave me an order for the book, and so did a bright young lady, a waitress at the same place. This relief work is not a dead thing of the past, "shelved," but is a real, live issue for to-day. Walter Harper.