Sabbath-School Contributions to Missions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1908

Sabbath-School Contributions to Missions

The quarterly summary of Sabbath-school reports published in the November issue of the Sabbath School Worker shows that the contributions to missions by the Sabbath-schools of the United States and Canada for the quarter ending June 30 amounted to $17,373.60, an average of over thirteen hundred dollars a week. The contributions from schools in the foreign conferences and mission fields during the previous quarter, but reported at the same time, amounted to $5,670.12, bringing the total contributions to missions for one quarter to $23,043.81. This is the best record ever yet made by our Sabbath-schools, and leads the officers of the Sabbath-school department, whose motto has been, “A thousand dollars a week to missions,” to feel that their rallying cry is getting out of date, and several of them are inquiring for one which will better represent the liberalities of the Sabbath-schools. That the contributions from our schools would prove to be such an important factor in the support of our mission work was hardly realized when the plan was inaugurated seventeen years ago.