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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 28, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 30.

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The Ten-Cent-a-Week Fund

By William T. Knox

THERE appears in this week's REVIEW the report of the receipts from the ten-cent-a-week fund for the first six months of the present year. This report gives all donations belonging to this fund from every local conference, as they have been reported to the General Conference treasurer by the various union conferences, and shows a total of $149,942.61. Of this amount, only $58,462.04 has been received during the last quarter. This is a very heavy shrinkage from the receipts of the first quarter of the year, the shortage in donations being found in almost every conference.
What this shortage during the past three months has meant to the General Conference, may be partially realized when we remember that instead of $58,462 to sustain the work, we have needed $100,000. It has meant that during each of these three months we have been obliged to cut our remittances to our brethren in foreign fields, and in some cases they have been wholly omitted. This has brought disappointment and inconvenience, to say the least, and in some instances a serious loss to the work in general.
It is hoped that temporary relief from this situation will be found when the midsummer offering has been received in our office; but conditions will still call for the continued and constant liberality of all toward our missions, on account of the greatly increased needs of the work, and the prospect that some sections of the American field from which we have always drawn a considerable portion of our funds will be seriously affected this year by drought, thus crippling our brethren in these sections in their ability to contribute to the General Conference treasury.
The object in placing this report before the readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD, is to give them all the information possible concerning the General Conference treasury, and that our people in each conference may know just what is being accomplished by their field toward supporting our missionaries, and how nearly they are meeting their obligation on the ten-cent-a-week plan. Where there are local conferences which, for any reason, have been tardy in sending forward their mission funds, we trust they will put forth earnest efforts to come to our relief by hastening forward their contributions.
W. T. KNOX.