Mission Offerings by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 12, 1915

Mission Offerings

By W. T. Knox

THE accompanying report of our mission receipts for the first six months of 1915 discloses a shortage of $115,440.06, and the fact that of the seventy-two conferences and mission fields but nine have paid in to the General Conference treasury, the amount required. The total receipts from these nine conferences have been $6,924.15 in excess of their portion for the period covered, while the remaining sixty-three conferences of North America show a deficit of $122,364.21.

This showing will without doubt be favorably affected by the Midsummer Offering received during the last of July; but notwithstanding this, it is with utmost concern that the officers of the General and Division Conferences contemplate the condition of these funds.

The readers of the REVIEW have not failed to notice the reports coming to us from the foreign fields, especially those from the pen of Elder Daniells, which show such urgent need of larger appropriations for these distant lands. The situation thus revealed prohibits our contemplating anything but advancement in our mission operations, but expansion of our mission operations can only be made possible by increased liberalities on the part of our people. The publishing of this report at this time is therefore with the earnest hope that its effect upon all the readers of the REVIEW will be increased effort on their part to provide larger gifts for the cause of God both at home and abroad.

W. T. KNOX.