Harvest Ingathering Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 16, 1916

Harvest Ingathering Notes

FROM Ohio: “We are having most encouraging success. One sister received $60 for one paper. We have several who have set goals of $100. Some of the churches reached half their goal in two weeks. This gives an idea of how the work is going.”

A sister in Wisconsin writes: “While here with my sister, the Ingathering campaign has been taken up by this church. Seeing the territory is large, almost unlimited, I thought I would do what I could while here.

“The way I usually do is to go with some one who would like to go out, but feels timid about meeting the people. We drive through the country, taking some route that leads to a distant village. After canvassing every house on the road, we also canvass the village.

“Yesterday a sister went with me who had never taken part in the Ingathering campaign until this fall. We rode fourteen miles through a new country, so we often found the houses far apart. But we made friends almost everywhere we called, and scarcely one refused to help. Some places the lady was alone, and had nothing to give, as her husband had the pocketbook. As a rule, we received a quarter, for we were fortunate in getting started with that amount. In all day there were only five who gave less, and most of these gave all they had in the house. That road had never been canvassed before, but I am sure that whoever goes next year will receive a kind welcome. Each of the two days I have been out we collected about five dollars.”

From Calgary: “In Alberta we are making an earnest effort to increase the flow of money by means of the campaign. At a recent meeting of the Calgary church it was voted to set our goal at $175, or $5 a member. This seemed a very high mark at first, considering that only $3.50 was collected by this church last year; but the members have all taken hold, and thus far we have received $140 on the goal, and some of the members are just starting to work. . . . We find our success in private homes. Yet in spite of all the calls that are being made, we are having more success than in any previous year. Over in the conservative English city of Victoria, on the coast, two of our workers collected $102.28 in four days. It was thought that of all places on the continent no funds could be collected there, but the brethren were happily disappointed. . . . Somehow, there has a spirit taken hold of this movement this season that has not been manifested before. I cannot account for it—only by the fact that God is mightily at work upon the hearts of the people, and success is due alone to the influence.”