p. 22 | Missionary Volunteer Day

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 16, 1908

Missionary Volunteer Day

THE General Conference Committee has appointed Sabbath, March 7, as Missionary Volunteer Day, to be observed by all our churches. Let our church officers and Young People's Society leaders pray earnestly and plan definitely for this special effort in behalf of our young people's movement.

While it is difficult to get many of our young people to report work done, I am sure that every lover of this message will rejoice at the showing made in the following general summary of their work for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1907:—


Number of Societies	242
Membership	4,756
Members in State Societies	260
Missionary letters written	2,446
Missionary letters received	997
Missionary visits	5,662
Bible readings or cottage meetings	2,248
Subscriptions for periodicals	1,807
Papers sold	41,937
Papers mailed or given away	72,161
Books sold	6,719
Books loaned	2,163
Pages of tracts sold	12,536
Pages of tracts given away	254,496
Hours of Christian Help work	115,061
Persons given food and clothing	831
Offerings for home missions	$ 633.08
Offerings for foreign missions	1,082.77

The full summary by conferences is given in the Instructor of January 28. The summer quarter is in some respects the poorest in the year. We can see from this report what our youth can do when fully aroused to action.

President Roosevelt says, “If you are going to do anything permanent for the average man, you have to begin before he is a man.” Let us with zeal and patience train our youth in lines of work they can do, thus keeping alive and active in their hearts the spirit of service, and prepare them for wider fields of usefulness.