Our Quarterly Receipts for Missions
By W. T. BLAND
The table submitted herewith represents the amount received at the general office during the third quarter for the various mission fields or funds that are receiving contributions from our people. Our people everywhere are manifesting great interest in the foreign mission work, and, although the third quarter is usually the hardest one of the year, still the report shows well. It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that we call attention to the splendid gift to missions as a result of the Sabbath-school offerings. Approximately fifty thousand dollars is turned into the General Conference Treasury each year from the Sabbath-schools alone, for use in mission work. It is difficult to estimate the wonderful help this is to our needy fields. We wish we might express, to all our Sabbath-schools throughout the country, our appreciation for their efforts in behalf of this great work. The Midsummer Gift to Missions
Our people will be disappointed that the special collection taken the second Sabbath in July for missions, was not greater. Last year the one offering amounted to about eleven thousand dollars. Perhaps there are reasons for the falling off in the amount raised this year, that we do not know of. It is certainly not from lack of interest, and we are not discouraged, even though we had hoped for more, and had planned our work accordingly. Good Reports From the Field
Certainly all are rejoicing as they read of the encouraging reports that have been published from our missionaries during the past few months. Let all remember that every contribution they20make for foreign missions, whether through the children at the Sabbath-school, through the weekly offerings, or in special gifts to the most needy fields, helps so much in the work, and that the one making the gift has a real part in the work in foreign fields. We invite all to carefully look over the report of this quarter; possibly it may assist some in planning their future offerings.