Recruiting for Christ; Hand to Hand Methods with Men

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...results of men reached through personal correspondence than by means of any other single method. The very success of business life to-day is largely due to correspondence. Work which is not so much of a personal as of a constructive nature. The postage stamp has become a mighty means of power. I went into one of our great bond houses recently. The president took me into a private room and showed me how great quantities of circulars were being stamped and addressed. Thousands could be turned out in an hour. What is this? It is the use of the postage stamp practically applied to modern business methods. If you cannot use long hand, dictate a letter. Talking with a travelling man of New York City, he said: "I never let a day end without dictating a letter to some personal friend about his soul's salvation." And then he added quietly: "I want to tell you this: All unconsciously to me, three stenographers in the last few years have been won to the Lord Jesus i Christ, won through the letters I have dictated, and in each case I did not know a single word I said was being taken to heart by them." Another illustration. Young Mercer is called by a lot of the college fellows, "Postal Card Mercer." I had a postal from him this winter, when he was speaking to the Johns Hopkins boys on my old stamping ground in Baltimore. Another came yesterday from an old Northfield Cornell boy, who is travelling in Spain, who had learned the value from him. He wrote on the card: "You see, I am ' Mercerised '!" He was keeping up that which had so helped him. This correspondence method can even be thus carried on with postals. It is the human touch through " Uncle Sam." Now, when a man sits down and writes you a letter or a...