Mission Offerings by William T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 23, 1916

Mission Offerings

By William T. Knox

OUR report on the Twenty-cent-a-week Fund for the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1916, shows the total receipts for the period as $418,012.52, which is $138,421.70 short of the quota allotment to the North American Division Conference. In all portions of the world our workers are looking forward to the support and assistance which the full contribution of this fund will bring to them.

These laborers in the foreign lands have gone forth with confidence that those who remained in the homeland will rally to their support, and furnish the means not only for present necessities, but for future requirements. These workers should not be disappointed, for they are giving the best that is in them to hasten the message on in its journey to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. The comforts of a pleasant home are not present with those who have gone far into the interior of the countries where the mold of civilization is unknown. It is the call of the gospel message that compels men to respond to invitations from such fields; but as they respond, we who remain in the homeland must sacrifice with them and share

in the labor if we expect to partake of the blessings that come when God's work is finished. Our sacrifice comes in furnishing the means to support these workers in these distant fields.

Most excellent reports are reaching us of the Harvest Ingathering campaign for missions. Already 975,000 copies of this special number of the Signs of the Times have been printed, and nearly 900,000 copies ordered to the fields. We confidently expect that all the shortage in our mission funds will be more than made up with the returns that will come from the careful circulation of these papers. W. T. KNOX.