Harvest Ingathering Campaign by F. W. Paap

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1916

Harvest Ingathering Campaign

By F. W. Paap

WE are in the midst of our Harvest Ingathering campaign for missions, and from every section of the field interesting, profitable, and blessed experiences are being reported. It is very evident that larger sums are being collected than ever before. The general public are manifesting a liberal spirit. If every believer in this great world-wide movement possessed the courage, force, energy, and perseverance that the present situation demands; if all revealed those positive traits of character that give power to do something,—the spirit and energy that kindle enthusiasm,—we should demonstrate the limitless possibilities of this simple yet effective plan.

In a letter from Elder G. H. Skinner, he says: “There is an experience gained in this work that cannot be obtained in any other way, and those who fail to get this experience are missing much.”

This is in harmony with a statement found in “Ministry of Healing,” page 500: “Many become inefficient by evading responsibilities for fear of failure. Thus they fail of gaining that education which results from experience, and which reading and study and all the advantages otherwise gained, cannot give them.”

Already 886,672 copies of the Harvest Ingathering Signs have been sent to the field, not including over 30,000 in the foreign tongues. The publishers expect to have to print more than 1,000,000, and are making preparation to do this.

If we could only know how these papers will be read and appreciated by thousands of people in the different sections of the field, it would stimulate us to greater activity.

In this ministry we find that the connecting link which binds us to God and to our fellow men is the law of service. F. W. PAAP.