The Missionary Campaign by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 30, 1908

The Missionary Campaign

By I. H. Evans

OUR people have already been informed that the Council of the General Conference Committee, held in Takoma Park last April, decided to consecrate Thanksgiving week, November 23-30, to a vigorous missionary campaign. It is hoped that there will be many thousands of dollars raised for missionary work at this time. The missionary number of the REVIEW will be ready for delivery, and in the hands of all our churches before that date. Surely this is the biggest undertaking that has ever been attempted by Seventh-day Adventists. The plan is that the missionary number of the REVIEW shall be distributed free, and each one who receives a copy will be solicited for a donation for our foreign missions.

Other missionary societies solicit large offerings, and receive many hundreds of thousands of dollars, for the support of their work. We believe that the work which Seventh-day Adventists are doing in foreign fields is greater by far in proportion to our membership than that of any other missionary society or organization in the world. We are expending in behalf of foreign missions a sum that will equal more than five dollars per capita of our church-membership. This means much to our people, and we believe that our friends and neighbors will gladly share with us in the work of giving the gospel to the heathen lands.

We look forward to Thanksgiving week as a time when our people will plan to lay aside their business cares as far as possible, and give the entire week in service to the Lord in endeavoring to solicit funds for our foreign mission work. Correspondence concerning this plan is invited from any one who feels a burden to write.

I. H. EVANS.