The Order of the Various Campaigns by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 20, 1910

The Order of the Various Campaigns

By W. T. Knox

THE workers in the General Conference Treasury Department are being made fully aware of the fact that we have entered the Harvest Ingathering campaign. According to the published plan, the orders for this special number of the REVIEW were to be placed beginning October 1, and not later than October 15. The orders during the past three or four days have come in with a rush, and on October 9 requests for about two hundred thousand copies of the paper had already been booked.

Notwithstanding this, however, we are receiving letters from a few conferences that indicate that active work among the churches, by the conference laborers, has not yet begun. Some statements in the correspondence received would indicate that there is a degree of confusion existing in the minds of the writers on account of the number of campaigns that they find on hand, speaking as they do of the $300,000 Fund, “Ministry of Healing” campaign, and the Harvest Ingathering campaign conflicting. Now, these various enterprises need not conflict in any degree, inasmuch as it is only the $300,000 Fund that appeals directly to the finances of our own people. This is a fund that is to be made up by our own sacrifice and liberality.

The Harvest Ingathering campaign is an effort to enlist the interest and support of our neighbors and friends in the work being carried forward by us in sending the everlasting gospel to the world. This is to be a quick work. The active campaign is supposed to occupy not more than one or two weeks of our time, and at the very longest to be disposed of during the month of November.

The “Ministry of Healing” campaign is different from this in that we are carrying to the people a book of great value, the proceeds of which are to be used in the relief of our sanitariums. This is a work which is not designed to be finished necessarily this year, or even in 1911. Our people are given three years in which to dispose of the six copies of “Ministry of Healing” and fifteen copies of Life and Health.

It would seem that no confusing nor conflicting purposes should be realized in these efforts. The time, however, is now getting late for planning the Harvest Ingathering campaign, and if any have been delayed in beginning preparations, we hope they will be able to quickly marshal all forces for the effort.

W. T. KNOX.