Colporteur Work and Pacific Island Reinforcements

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 4, 1914

Colporteur Work and Pacific Island Reinforcements

Just as our schools in this country are closing, those below the equator are well started in the first term of the school year. Students pushing into the field with the thought of earning a scholarship in the book work will read with interest the following note from Brother A. R. Sherman, director of the colporteurs in Argentina: "Our book work is prospering. The student canvassers have all made their scholarships and returned to college. Only one student failed to have the full amount by the opening of school, and he has now earned it. There has been a crop failure and also a financial crisis all over the land, with thousands out of employment. Nevertheless, facing all this, we have much to be thankful for, and I believe this year will be our banner year in the canvassing work."

We note by the Australasian Union Record that reenforcements are being sent forward from time to time to the great island fields of the South Pacific. Initials are not given, but in February a Brother Wright was sent to the New Hebrides, and in April Brethren Hill and Streeter, with their wives, sailed for the Cook Island group.