The Home Missionary Report
By E. M. GRAHAM
The report of the home missionary work for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1914, shows a very large increase in the amount of work done. Some lines of work are double what they were the previous quarter, and every column shows a gain. We received reports from all but eight conferences in this country. The indications are that before the present year closes, every conference in the North American Division will have its work so organized that it can render a complete and satisfactory report. North Carolina still leads in the proportionate number of members enlisted in service, 207 out of 295. This conference is rapidly nearing the aim of every member a worker. Northern California comes next, with over half its members active reporting workers. Minnesota leads in the number of letters written and of tracts lent and given. The largest number of missionary visits and Bible readings stands to the credit of Greater New York, while East Michigan leads in the number of subscriptions taken. We shall leave our readers to look up the other highest records. Most of these records have been made by our largest conferences, which is as it should be, but proportionately they are good also. We welcome a new foreign field, the Bahamas Mission, and hope it will remain in the great army of fields where every member is being enlisted in service. Two union conferences have failed to report, the South African and the West Indian. Owing to changes in the officers of the South African Home Missionary Department, its report has been delayed; but it is developing a stronger organization of this work, so we look for regular reports in the future. The work is growing well. The West Indian Union is also planning for better things. Everywhere it is being recognized that one of the most important things to be done now is to get every Sabbath keeper to become an active, consecrated worker. We speak of figures and records, but the great thing about this report is that every figure represents a channel through which the Holy Spirit may work. No wonder we rejoice to see these figures growing larger and larger each quarter. The larger they grow, the sooner we shall see our blessed Saviour come to take us home. Brethren and sisters, look at these figures and rejoice with us, and then take courage to press forward and make them larger and larger, until the whole earth is filled with the glory of this message. Remember that every effort counts. This large report is made up of little things. The services of every man, woman, and child are needed to finish the work.