1881 Watch Tower - A2Z.org

Found the free Methodist's very fair. The treatment better than Igot anywhere else. Gave the pamphlet to sixteen preachers andone hundred of the most intelligent of the church membership,attending the conference from all over the state, beside in a largenumber of cases, also adding a word that will make the bookmore living for the personality attaching to it. That is the reasonI talk to so many that I give the books to; so I get their attentionto the book more fully. Am generally asked for explanations ofour views, and though neither powerful nor eloquent of speech, Iget attention to the book by complying. Thank God for the widerfield thus opening. May the will of God be done in poor me, andHis name get honor and blessing forever.Yours in Christ,J. B. A.====================R293 : page 6FROM BROTHER J. J. BENDER.EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND,October 1st 1881. DEAR BRO. RUSSELL.Having but a few minutes to post a letter in time to meet steamerleaving Liverpool today, I write in haste a few words. Arrived inGlasgow on Wednesday, and spent the day in hunting up someparty, but could find none. Advertised in paper my wants andleft for Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, to extreme north,intending to distribute at each place. I succeeded without delayand returned in the night to Glasgow, having 18 replies to myadvertisement. The first I called upon I made a contract with,and came here again to hear from London, but received no letter.I telegraphed to learn how things were getting along, andenclosed find a favorable reply. So far--