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Our Midsummer Offering

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 19, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 25.

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Our Midsummer Offering

By I. H. Evans

The fourth Sabbath in July has been set apart as the time for the Midsummer Offering. The Mission Board has need of liberal offerings at this time. The increased expense in pushing out the large recruiting force calls for the hearty support of every loyal heart.
Those who have read the General Conference Bulletin and the REVIEW AND HERALD must have been impressed with the large number of workers appointed to mission fields abroad. The treasurer has estimated the cost to the Mission Board of placing these new workers in their respective fields to exceed $60,000. If new homes were included, $12,000 must be added, making $72,000 extra expense.
Why should not this occasion see the largest Midsummer Offering in our history? Why not every one definitely plan to contribute a goodly sum for the Lord's work? The workers are ready to go. The fields are white for the harvest. The Macedonian cry comes from all quarters of the heathen world. The people of these darkened lands are turning with longing hearts to the Christian nations of the world, pleading for help.
A Chinese sister heard the truth through one of our workers, and when the promise of eternal life came to her and she yielded her heart to God, she gave vent to her feelings in weeping aloud. When asked the cause, she said: “I cannot comprehend how you could believe such blessed news so long, and not come here sooner. Last year my poor mother died a heathen. She never heard of the love of God, and died without Christ. Had you come one year sooner, I am sure my dear mother would have believed. Now she is lost forever.”
Not less than 36,000,000 heathen die annually with no knowledge of God, and without hope of the life to come. In this offering we can raise sufficient funds to place twenty families in heathen lands. The call of God is for action. Let us be prompt to respond to the call.
I. H. EVANS.