Holiday Canvassing by I. A. Ford

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1912

Holiday Canvassing

By I. A. Ford

SOME of our workers in days past have had the idea that holidays were not favorable times for selling our literature. They have thought that the people were too much absorbed in pleasure to give attention to such serious subjects as our books contain. The following extract from a letter received from Brother B. P. Foote, who has been canvassing in Michigan during the summer, is to the point in demonstrating that our literature can be sold quite as successfully on holidays as on other days. He says:—

"I have been canvassing this summer, and have had excellent success, for which I am very thankful. The fourth of July was my best day. I secured orders that day amounting to fifty-four dollars, and that, too, in the country. Everything went along so perfectly that it really seemed as if the Lord had planned out the whole day for me."

If any of our canvassers who read these lines have the idea that they would be wasting their time if they should canvass on holidays, I trust they will profit by Brother Foote's experience.

I. A. FORD.