p. 18 | Sanitarium Relief Campaign by L. A. HANSEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 21, 1910

Sanitarium Relief Campaign

By L. A. HANSEN

The Next Step

The recommendations for the relief campaign have now been generally presented and adopted. A good spirit has been manifested toward the movement. It has been accepted as a good plan.

There is danger, right at this point, that we shall now rest easy, feeling a sense of satisfaction because a plan has been devised for the relief of our sanitariums. We have, as it were, gotten the difficulty out of the way by favorable legislation.

Let it be remembered that the real situation is unchanged. The needs are as great as ever. Passing resolutions will not meet them. We must now carry out these resolutions by doing what they call for. The next step is to sell the books and journals.

The need for the campaign was an urgent one sometime before the Council of the General Conference Committee of last October took up the matter. It was this urgency that in a large measure called for the Council. Elder A. G. Daniels presented the situation as a most serious one, and of pressing need. The necessity of doing something definite, and that very soon, was emphasized.

A large and strong committee gave the question careful consideration. The Council adopted the recommendations

for the campaign as the best measure of relief. As has been stated, these have been adopted by union conferences and by local conferences as far as they have been presented.

The issue is now before the individual, the one who is to go to friends and neighbors and sell the books and journals. Returns are expected from each conference on the basis of two books and five journals a member for each of the next three years. Anything short of this will lack just that much of meeting the demands of the situation. We must not figure on any shortage.

This need not become a wearisome matter, or one of distaste. It ought not to be necessary to have it before us a great while. It can be gotten out of the way. There is no objection to closing it up before the allotted time of three years. The whole matter now rests on our doing the work.

L. A. HANSEN.