“Ministry of Healing” Sales by Walter Harper

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jan 2, 1913

“Ministry of Healing” Sales

By Walter Harper

Connected With Sales of Spanish Literature in Arizona

I FINISHED my work in Humboldt County, on the northern coast of California, the last of October. After a safe and prosperous ocean voyage to San Francisco, I made a brief visit to St. Helena Sanitarium, Pacific Union College, Oakland, and Mountain View, then took a steamer from the Golden Gate to Los Angeles (San Pedro). Next came a brief stop for rest and needed treatments at that “earthly paradise,” the Loma Linda (Cal.) Sanitarium, then I hurried off to Arizona to spend the fall and winter chiefly among the Spanish-speaking people, selling our good books.

For the first short week’s work in Arizona, the Lord gave me over $210 worth of orders for books, helps, etc. On Thanksgiving day, I did not get to work till nearly noon, as I was up till about midnight the night before; yet by a little after 5 P. M. I was blessed with over eighty-two dollars in orders for books, helps, etc. In one cabin I took orders for nearly forty dollars’ worth in a brief space. Besides all this, in the first week’s work there was twenty-seven dollars’ worth of orders for the Heaven-sent beacon-light of truth, “Ministry of Healing.”

My work now is mostly among the Mexicans and the Spanish-speaking people. It is a marvel how these downtrodden, despised people buy our literature. It is surely their day of visitation, their call, and the waters of their Bethesda pool are being troubled. God’s Spirit is brooding over the Spanish-speaking people the world over. They respond, too. They almost come after me to buy the books, instead of my having to go to them. When you win their confidence and love by kind, true Christian courtesy, you can do almost anything with these kind-hearted people. When one orders a book of you, he is your friend, and he becomes a walking advertisement of your work, speaks of it to his friends, and does effectual work to get them also to give their orders.

God is in this work. Now is the favored time to carry our truth-laden books to this class to the ends of the earth. I also handle “Daniel and the Revelation” as my leading work among the white people. I have good success with this timely work. It is a delight to me to set forth the Eastern question as foretold in Daniel 11 and 12. I stand by the old landmarks of this truth, for they are immovable. I found a settlement of colored people, and it seemed as if almost every one took “Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation” or “Ministry of Healing,” or both.

WALTER HARPER.