PLAN No. 596. BIBLES PUT HIM THROUGH UNIVERSITY
He was a man past middle age, had never had any special advantages, but had a remarkable will and was open and above board in his religious faith. He believed the Bible was one of the best books ever printed and he had a good understanding of it. So he met all students who were inclined toward religion and obtained as many agents as possible to go out with him to sell Topical Bibles. He put out a considerable number of agents, worked with them, and encouraged them, and at the end of each summer he put away $400 or $500 net.
As a salesman he was not above the ordinary, but believed in his book and worked with it from summer to summer. The Topical Bible, he claimed, not only put him through the university but in placing it among the people he felt that he was doing a work worth while.