Fifteen-Cent-a-Week Fund by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 15, 1913

Fifteen-Cent-a-Week Fund

By W. T. Knox

WITH this appears the first report from the General Conference treasury of the receipts of mission funds for the year 1913. The careful attention of our brethren in all parts of the field is earnestly invited to the contents of the report.

All will, without doubt, remember that our mission operations for the year 1913 are planned upon a much larger scale than ever in the past. It is, therefore, to be greatly regretted that for the first quarter of the year we are making no better showing in our mission offerings than is manifested by this report, the total amount received being $87,048.49. The full amount desired for the time covered is $124,365.15. Thus the amount raised is not only a net shortage of $37,316.66, but also compares unfavorably with the same time for 1912, the first quarter for that year bringing to the treasury the sum of $93,807.

It is encouraging, however, to see that there are some conferences that are still keeping in the lead of the amount required. The attention is called to the showing made by the Southeastern Union and the Western Canadian Union, in which every conference is paying in excess of the amount required, while such local fields as the Newfoundland Mission and the conferences of Nebraska, Western Oregon, Northern California-Nevada, and Louisiana are also in the same favorable relationship to the report.

All conference officials should at once take cognizance of their standing. With the serious break that will come into their work on account of the General Conference session, and with more than one quarter of the year already in the past, it will require untiring and continued effort on the part of all to bring about the desired result at the close of the year. W. T. Knox.