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One afternoon at about this time you might have seen Mr. Cole, the missionary of the Day-Star, -- a small, lithe man, with a red beard, -- making his way up town. He walked rapidly, as he always did, for he was a busy man.
He was an exceedingly busy man. During the past year, as was shown by his printed report, he had made 2,014 calls, or five and one-half calls a day; he had read the Scriptures in families 792 times; he had distributed 931,456 pages of religious literature; he had conversed on religious topics with 3,918 persons, or ten and seven-tenths persons per day, Sabbaths included. It was perhaps because he was so busy that there was complaint sometimes that he mixed matters and took things upon his shoulders which belonged to others.