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The Harvest Ingathering for 1916

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 40.

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The Harvest Ingathering for 1916

By I. H. EVANS

THE time set for the opening of the Harvest Ingathering campaign is October 1. The Pacific Press Publishing Association, at Mountain View, Cal., has issued a special number of the weekly Signs of the Times, which is to be used in this Ingathering campaign. In reading matter, in illustrations, and in the suggestiveness and color effects of the first and last pages, this number seems to be the best of all the campaign specials ever yet issued. The papers should be ordered early, so that they may be at hand the first day of the campaign.
It seems reasonable that we should undertake to circulate a million copies of this splendid periodical. The goal in the ingathering of funds is $100,000. For some years we have had the same goal before us. Last year more than $78,000 was raised, while the highest previous mark was about $59,000. If, last year, we raised the total of our ingathering $20,000, we surely can increase the amount in 1916 as much over 1915 as that was greater than the 1914 campaign.
The General Conference mission funds must be replenished. Already the demands from abroad have been so extensive that the treasurer has been compelled to use the entire working capital for one half the year to meet them. This means that there must be a full tally of the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund for the General Conference in 1916. Each individual church member should determine whether he has done his full duty toward the support of the work in other lands. The Harvest Ingathering campaign offers an opportunity to all who can and will avail themselves of its privileges to pay much of their twenty cents a week.
The growth of our mission work in heathen lands is most cheering. The number coming into the truth in some of those countries is increasing beyond our expectations. Words fail to express the magnitude of the opportunities for labor. The Master taught a lesson that is true in the present day with this people, when he said, "Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." And, coupled with that, is the other exhortation of Christ, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest."
With a world whose gates are all ajar, and the Macedonian cry, "Come over and help us," echoing everywhere; with a living, burning message to a lost world; with a knowledge of the times and of the prophecies concerning the nearness of this world's end, surely this people cannot abandon the work God has assigned to them for anything the world may offer. Let us unite all our strength for the finishing of the work of sounding the third angel's message to all the earth. I. H. EVANS.