The Harvest Ingathering Campaign

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 24, 1916

The Harvest Ingathering Campaign

ARE you going to have a part in the Harvest Ingathering campaign next October? By “you” we address every reader, every member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This is a campaign for the entire membership for the reason that it involves interests which belong to the entire membership. The cause of foreign missions—the carrying of the gospel to the entire world—is a work which has been committed to the entire church, and only as every member of the church has a part in this work will every member receive the blessing which results from consecrated service.

A threefold good will be accomplished by this campaign. First, the benefit which will accrue to the foreign mission cause by the offering that will be received. As never before in the history of our work there is a demand for consecrated means to push the work forward. In every field openings for the entrance of the gospel are insistently urging themselves upon our workers. The Macedonian call is sounding from every quarter. Men and women whose hearts God has touched are ready for service. The Foreign Mission Board must have money with which to send these men and women to their fields and to support them in their labors. The Harvest Ingathering campaign is one very efficient way by which means in the past have been provided.

Second, Engaging in this campaign will bring a blessing to your neighbors. It is more than a duty to give to the cause of foreign missions: it is a privilege, and a privilege which those loving foreign mission work will welcome; a privilege which you may extend to those upon whom you call. In addition to that it brings you into personal touch with those whom you visit. You may follow up these visits later with other calls or by sending missionary literature. Thus there may be opened before you a great field for future missionary labor.

And third, but by no means the least advantage which will come from engaging in this campaign, is the good which it will do your soul. Every member of the church needs this personal touch with humanity. Thousands in the church are dying from lack of personal missionary work. Too many are content to labor for God by proxy. They are willing to give of their means, willing to pray for those who labor, but unwilling to go themselves. It is personal service, personal touch with souls, which increases in our own hearts a love for Christ and a love for those for whom Christ died.

Let every member of our denomination in some way and in some measure to as great a degree as consistent, determine, that he will have a part in this fall campaign in behalf of missions. No one can afford not to have a part in this good work.