The Home Missionary Campaign in the Pacific Union Conference
By E. M. GRAHAM
WHEN the publishing and home missionary convention, held at Mountain View, closed, Elder Paap and Brother Ernest Lloyd laid plans for an aggressive campaign throughout the Pacific Union Conference. One feature of the plan was a missionary rally in every large church. They have had some excellent meetings20in Loma Linda and the towns near there. The attendance has been large, and the interest keen. The clubs of the weekly Signs have been increased by one hundred and fifty copies, which brings them to about the desired average of two copies a member. They are planning to make April 17 a Temperance Youth's Instructor day for that union. Now that so much attention is being given to the drink question by the nations engaged in the war, we have an excellent selling point for our temperance paper. If drink makes men inefficient soldiers and manufacturers of war supplies, it makes them inefficient in every other business, trade, and occupation. Therefore it is to the interest of every one to abolish it. The time has come when the special weekly Signs clubs are expiring, so now is the time for you to renew if you have not done so. The work is not finished yet, you know. There are souls around you looking for light, and the more literature you can distribute the more likely you are to reach them. The weekly Signs is full of the message, and will bring results. “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: . . . He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit.” John 15: 2-5. Bearing fruit is the evidence of an abiding in Christ. If we are not fruit bearers, we are nothing as far as the church of Christ is concerned, for this is evidence that we are not abiding in him. Real love for Jesus must flow out in soul-saving efforts.