Many have noticed that some men commended to the Lord's work profess an exercise to look for open doors and to reach out into new ground for God. However, their intent seems to soon fade, due to the fact that they are soon bombarded by various assemblies to come for gospel meetings. Succumbing, they go. Of course, that ends cooking meals for one's self, or eating in restaurants, paying for room rent, paying for newspaper ads, paying for invitations, paying for a room to preach, paying to have their clothes laundered. It is a wonderful change.
Popularity creeps in and the new work ceases and the circuit preaching commences.
In the U.S.A. we have 50 states. Numerically, the number of most assemblies is falling. None of the 19 states without an assembly are being diligently worked by our evangelists. The population of the states having no assemblies is 40,753,000 and the square miles are 1,148,824. There are 119 scriptural assemblies in the U.S.A., which averages two and one fourth assembles per state.