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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 1, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 40.

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It Can Be Done

By G. B. Thompson

WHAT can be done? Why several hundred thousand dollars can be raised to carry the truths of the third angel’s message into the “regions beyond,” and thus hasten the coming of the Lord, if all our people do all they can Thanksgiving Ingathering week, November 22-28. Think what it would mean to this cause if, say, a quarter of a million dollars were gathered in from the world to advance this message! This, with a liberal offering from our people during the week of prayer, would place our mission work on a good financial basis as the year 1908 goes into history. Why not raise a quarter of a million?
Can it be done? you ask. Certainly. It will be no difficult task to do this, and even more, if all take hold and lift. It will not require us to lift “till we see stars,” either, to raise this sum, though it seems at a glance to be large.
HOW can it be done?—In this way. Suppose that fifty thousand believers should raise five dollars each. It ought not to require very much hard lifting to get five dollars in a week in exchange for an excellent special number of the good REVIEW. But even this much on an average would bring in $250,000, or a quarter of a million dollars. Of course to raise five dollars each, some should raise much more than five dollars, as some might fall below this amount. In order to be sure that this sum is raised, let each one plan to do more than this.
The last statistical report of the denomination shows over sixty-four thousand Sabbath-keepers in the United States. If each of these should raise an average of five dollars, the amount would be $320,000—nearly a third of a million dollars. If they should raise an average of ten dollars each, the sum would be $640,000. If fifteen dollars each, the sum would be $960,000, or nearly a million dollars.
These figures serve to show the possibilities in this plan if it is pushed. Why not push it to the utmost?
G. B. THOMPSON.