Colporteur Work in Hungary and Servia

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 23, 1913

Colporteur Work in Hungary and Servia

Should not such experiences as the following lead to greater faithfulness on the part of those who are privileged to work in a land where there is freedom to sell our literature unmolested?

"We just received the intelligence that a worker, who in spite of the war enjoyed the liberty of distributing undisturbed thousands of our paper Znaci Vrema (Signs of the Times), had been forced into the army. Another brother, a faithful canvasser, has been in military service four weeks. Our prayers are with them, for we know that the Lord will stand by them.

"Under these special difficulties, we feel it a great privilege to be able to spread the message by literature. The last half-year we were able to baptize twenty-five in Servia, the majority of whom had been brought to a knowledge of the message by the printed page.

"Our people possess an active missionary spirit, which they express by spreading our literature as much as possible through their missionary societies. Our 157 people sold over 10,000 papers during the first quarter, with a value of 1,300 crowns; and when the war-clouds blow over, we hope to be able to convey the silent messengers to the people in a still greater measure, so that the work may be completed, and the people warned before darkness reigns supreme on the earth. The canvassing work made splendid progress, the year 1912 showing a sale of 3,000 crowns; and yet in the first five months of this year the sales far exceeded this sum, and we expect much greater results when most of the canvassers are at work again at the beginning of autumn."