The Canvasser
Through the failure of canvassers to meet their indebtedness, our
tract societies have been involved in debt; they cannot meet their obli-
gations to the publishing houses; thus these institutions become em-
barrassed, and their work is hindered. Some canvassers have thought
themselves ill-treated when required to make prompt payment to the
publishers for books received, but prompt remittal is the only success-
ful way of conducting business.
The loose manner in which some canvassers have performed their
work shows that they have important lessons to learn. Much haphazard
work has been presented before me. By laxness in secular affairs
some have formed habits of carelessness and slackness, and they have
brought this deficiency into the Lord’s work.
God calls for decided improvement in the various branches of the
work. The business done in connection with His cause should be
marked with greater precision and exactness. There must be firm,
decided effort to bring about essential reforms.
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“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord negligently.”
Jeremiah 48:10
, margin.
“If ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the
lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be
pleased with thee, or accept thy person?”
Malachi 1:8
. “Cursed be the
deceiver, which ... voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished
thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and My name is
terrible.”
Verse 14
, R.V.
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