Plans and Suggestions for the Continuous Missionary Campaign
By S. N. Curtiss
“Not a wasted moment in the morning fair,
Not an idle instant in the noonday glare,
Not a Christless mission anywhere.”
The words of the poem are in harmony with the spirit of our missionary efforts—a continuous campaign. The Master Worker has given the command, “Go ye.” Helpless, hopeless, despairing humanity raises pleading hands, and says, “Come over and help us.” The General Conference says, “We recommend that the great missionary campaign entered upon last year be strengthened, deepened, and enlarged into a mighty movement for the promulgation of the third angel’s message.” The necessary material—the Word of God and the publications which lead to its study—is ready. In fact, the harvest is ripe. What is lacking?—The reapers. Where are the reapers? The call is to every individual. Who will disappoint the Master and fail in this time of test to “come up to the help of the Lord against the mighty”? In the plan for this season’s campaign, the REVIEW AND HERALD is to receive first attention. This means that every conference officer, every minister, every Bible worker, every church officer, every canvasser, every church-member, will be a subscriber to the paper, and will see that every Sabbath-keeper within the sphere of his influence is made cognizant of the great loss sustained by those who do not have the regular visits of their church paper. This work is to be done now at every camp-meeting, in every conference, in every church.18 Following this effort to get the REVIEW into every Sabbath-keeper’s hands will come an effort for others with our various missionary periodicals, and the circulation of other truth-filled publications. Missionary conventions are to be held, and there is something which every man, woman, and child among us will be expected to take part in. Full particulars, reports of work, the convention readings, and all the information that our people will need to know what to do and when to do it, will be in the REVIEW. Let us work earnestly now for the paper, so that when these other plans are published in it, every Sabbath-keeper will read them and be ready to do his part. S. N. CURTISS,
Chairman Eastern Campaign Committee.