Midsummer Offering for 1906 by A. O. Burrill

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 14, 1906

Midsummer Offering for 1906

By A. O. Burrill

A. O. BURRILL

If we are to take this message to all the world, to every nation, it will require much means. We have long said that all are to be warned. We have our schools that are filled with our youth who are studying the prophecies. These young men and women are imbued with the hope of the coming of the Lord. But before that takes place they must be sent to all the different nations. Is it not a source of great joy to the believers that God's providence is turning the minds of the laborers to these fields? The Holy Spirit has done and is doing his work in

preparing laborers to go forth to the work of warning.

What does it mean that so many young men and women are in our different institutions making preparations for labor in different lands? Faithful parents are making great sacrifice to educate these students, and their prayers are constantly ascending to God that the son or daughter may be ready to hear the call. They are doing as Hannah did with Samuel. She “gave him to the Lord all the days of his life.” There are many Hannahs in these days whose prayers are going up to that God to whom Hannah prayed. They have been heard and answered. These parents who love these sons and daughters ardently are willing to bid them farewell, that they may go to the ends of the earth.

This call for the “midsummer” offering is to provide the means with which to send some of these away to their fields of labor. There are many places where the Lord has prepared the field to be worked. Have we not seen this within the past few months? What has come to this people from across the seas? What from South America, Mexico, and our Canadian fields?—Calls for workers. The fields are all ready for harvesting. Many workmen are ready to go to the ends of the earth. This “midsummer offering” is to send some of them on the way, and feed and clothe those who are already on the battle line in Asia, Africa, and the isles of the sea. This blessed opportunity to help send this message to all lands will soon be gone. Now is our time to co-operate with all heaven in sounding the cry, “Behold the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.”

Galt, Ontario.