Harvest Ingathering Campaign for 1911 by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 20, 1911

Harvest Ingathering Campaign for 1911

By W. T. Knox

The King’s business requires haste. “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”

The voice of the Lord is still being heard throughout the land uttering the same question. With greater urgency and insistence, he is calling to his children to become his messengers. In every land we are beholding the revelation of the glory and majesty of the Most High in his work of transforming character and subduing men to the likeness of his image. How are we answering the call of God to become his active messengers and servants in this great work?

The lines of effort in which our energies can be employed are many. The work of the message has taken on so many phases that no one need now be excluded from its activities.

In the past three years the Harvest Ingathering campaign has afforded to all the denomination a splendid and fruitful opportunity to assist in a very practical way in sending the truth to the world. In addition to giving to thousands a knowledge of the work being done by the denomination, and thereby interesting many in the truth we are propagating, over one hundred twenty thousand dollars has been brought into the treasury by the distribution of these special mission numbers of the Review. During the year 1910, the amount thus gathered was $41,143.93, which was to the Mission Board a highly appreciated assistance in providing for the mission fields. Without it, we would have been greatly embarrassed in a most trying year. To the local conferences and churches it was also a financial blessing, furnishing to them, as it did, thirteen and one-half per cent of their ten-cent-a-week fund.

Plans have now been perfected for the campaign for 1911, the General Conference Council having selected the Signs of the Times as the periodical to be used. Five hundred thousand copies have been ordered printed, the work of printing to begin early in August. The Pacific Press will give to this special number its very best effort, and we expect to see produced a paper that will be a credit to the denomination.

Orders for papers and supplies should be placed with the conference tract societies not later than September, all of which are to be placed with the Pacific Press Publishing Company, Mountain View, Cal. Orders will receive prompt attention. No orders for papers or supplies should be sent to Takoma Park.

The campaign itself is to begin October 30, the special Signs being issued under date of November 7.

The General Conference Committee earnestly hope that all conference and church officers will at once begin to plan for an active and aggressive campaign.

W. T. Knox, Treasurer.