The Midsummer Offering
By I. H. EVANS
The North American Division Conference has fixed Sabbath, July 24, as the time for taking the Midsummer Offering. This date was selected as one that would be most convenient for our people generally, and would afford the best prospects for a large offering. It is hoped that this offering will be the largest Midsummer Offering taken in many years. (We have every reason to be encouraged with the development of the work both at home and abroad. Never has there been a time in the history of the third angel’s message when conditions were more favorable for reaching the public, nor has there ever been a more earnest call for men and means with which to prosecute our work in heathen lands, than now. (Everywhere the Macedonian cry is being heard, and it is the duty of God’s people to send to the front large recruiting forces. The president of one of our union conferences, in writing to his workers concerning the Midsummer Offering, says:— “We as workers are leaders in the greatest propaganda this world has ever witnessed, and our work at home is strong just in proportion to our interest in the regions beyond. The best way to strengthen our stakes is to lengthen our cords. “The treasurer of our Mission Board informs me of a general deficit, on June 1, on the twenty-cent-a-week plan, of $116,775.77. The Northern Union is responsible to the amount of $5,000 for this condition, and it is to make up our part of this responsibility that I am appealing to you through this letter. “It seems to me that, ‘knowing the time’ as we do, of all the funds for which we are responsible our mission funds should not be behind. I desire to appeal to every worker in the Northern Union Conference to take this responsibility to heart, and let us unitedly work for one of the largest donations ever rolled up by our people upon the occasion of the Midsummer Offering. “There is no set rule nor manufactured program to follow that will bring results. We must let our responsibility rest like a millstone upon our hearts, and ‘work as though everything depended upon us individually, and pray as though everything depended upon God.’” We trust that every union and local conference president in North America will take hold of this Midsummer Offering in the way that will bring the largest results we have ever seen. The Mission Board must have the money. It is our duty and privilege to raise the full twenty cents a week, and it can be done if all will do their full duty. Let those who are rich give large donations, but let every one give something. Remember the day—Sabbath, July 24. We trust that this offering will make up a large amount of the deficit on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund. I. H. EVANS.