Missionary Farming by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 9, 1905

Missionary Farming

By I. H. Evans

We should raise this year not less than ten thousand dollars for the Missionary Acre Fund. This will be used in the liquidation of the International Medical Missionary Training-school Association's obligations assumed by the General Conference in the transfer of the Battle Creek College property. If this amount were raised for five consecutive years, the debts would all be paid.

Now, we believe our people will be pleased with the idea of missionary farming, and will set aside a parcel of land for the Lord. We can give the Lord's work a place in our home industries. Christ can be a double partner in our labors; he receives a tithe, which is his by divine heredity and precept, and no one

would dare to rob him of his portion. But besides the tithe, he can have a plot of ground worked for himself by one of his disciples, from which he receives the whole of the receipts.

There are a variety of ways this can be planned. Some have no land; they work for wages. These can give a certain portion of their time with all their earnings. Thus each of us can contribute something to this fund, and not exhaust all our energies. Other funds must be kept in mind.

We must not lose sight of our weekly offering, the ten-cent-a-week plan, for this must be kept up, and greatly extended, else our missionaries will suffer; but we can each do this while helping on the Missionary Acre Fund. We trust that each family will do something for this fund this season. I. H. EVANS.