en:operating_principles:dtm:publishing_church_growth_model:phase3_evangelist_calls_decisions
The results have been similar in this country. In Oakland we did not take the Signs of the Times to sell, which we ought to have done, but we had a tent paper. During those meetings we published the principal sermons in a little four-page paper, which was handed out the following night to those in the tent. We told the people that this paper contained the talk of the previous evening, and was given them for their study, as no doubt there were some points which they failed to catch, or which had slipped their minds, and which they desired to look up. In the morning our workers would take them and go everywhere through the city, and many eager hands were held out for those papers. I have since learned by correspondence that as the result of the short series of papers published during that one tent-meeting in the city of Oakland, people in the State of Maine embraced the truth through reading them. I also found people in the Southern States who accepted the truth through reading them. How did they get them? People in Oakland who had received them, sent them to their friends in Maine, in the South, and other parts of the country. The influence of that little sheet went almost over the United States. There is a great deal of difference between that sort of work, and a man standing in the desk and preaching a single discourse to a few people, having the influence of his words stop right there within a small circle. True, it costs something to circulate our literature, but it pays in the end. We have tried this plan in other places, and it has been carried out twice in the city of Oakland. The paper was called The Tent-meeting Review. Some had them bound up, and are carefully preserving them, reading them frequently to refresh their minds concerning the truth. (GCB 259.1).
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