Our Annual Offering for the Negro Department by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1911

Our Annual Offering for the Negro Department

By Arthur G. Daniells

THIS offering is to be taken Sabbath, October 7. We have reason to feel encouraged regarding the work of this department of home missions. We are not wasting the money we are devoting to the work among the colored people. It is bringing good returns. The Lord is using it to support earnest colored ministers, Bible workers, teachers, and other workers who are giving this message to their people; and these workers are having success in bringing people into the truth. Those who are embracing the message are paying tithes, making offerings, and doing missionary work for their neighbors. Surely this calls for the faithful support of this work.

Our brethren most closely associated with the work of the Negro Department feel that the organization of this department at the last General Conference was a wise step. It has unified and strengthened that work, and has laid the foundation for a large, successful movement throughout the States. The one thing that has given serious trouble in the operations of the department, has been the lack of funds to meet the pressing needs. This, of course, has been our trouble in all the departments of our work.

Wherever I have met with our colored brethren during the last two years, they have expressed the warmest appreciation of the interest manifested in their behalf, and have assured me that they are determined to do their part to hasten this work forward. We have reason to be grateful to our Heavenly Father for permitting us to render this service to a people who have suffered as these people have, and we should esteem it a privilege to make a liberal offering in their behalf this year. A. G. DANIELLS.