Missionary Work for the Young People by E. R. Palmer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 24, 1907

Missionary Work for the Young People

By E. R. Palmer

A LETTER just received from Mountain View, Cal., gives an inspiring account of plans being laid by the Young People's Society of the church in that place in behalf of the circulation of the Missions number of the Signs of the Times. As the employees in the Pacific Press Office worked on this number of the paper, their hearts were stirred to do something very definite themselves. Accordingly, one evening they called a council meeting of the young people in the vestry of the church. If space would permit, we would gladly report the details of that interesting meeting. The members present, thirty-one in all, decided to do more than circulate the Missions number. They subscribed for 2,350 copies of the Missions number of the Signs, and agreed that they would donate the proceeds received from the sale to the cause of foreign missions. These papers cost at wholesale four cents a copy, the price charged for clubs of five hundred or more. The revenue, therefore, will be six cents a copy, or a total of one hundred forty-one dollars on the club.

This plan appeals to us as being a very happy one, which might properly be passed on to all the Young People's Societies in the United States.

This is a double effort. It will prove a blessing to the people in the Santa Clara Valley who receive the paper, and the donation will be a help to the ever-present and very precious cause of foreign missions.

It is a double donation—first a donation of time in selling the papers, and second, a consecration of the profits to the Master's work in foreign fields. This initial effort in Mountain View affords an example which may well be followed by our whole army of young people.

E. R. PALMER.