One Hour - Five Papers - Seventeen Dollars for Missions by T. E. Bowen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 6, 1913

One Hour — Five Papers — Seventeen Dollars for Missions

By T. E. Bowen

THE experience of two brethren at Boulder, Colo., may be interesting and helpful to those who have not finished their Ingathering work. Brother J. C. Musselman writes:—

“The Harvest Ingathering campaign has proved such a blessing to some of us that we wish to tell some of our experiences. Another brother and I, in talking over our plans for the campaign, decided that we ought not to be satisfied to raise less than ten dollars each; but after he had solicited from three persons and received five dollars from each, he came to me and said he had raised his mark to twenty-five dollars. I took an hour after the Sabbath to call on three in my territory, and received five dollars from each of the three. I disposed of five papers, in all, and received seventeen dollars. Then I decided to raise my mark to twenty-five dollars.”

“In discussing the subject with this brother later, we both decided that it is just about as easy to raise five dollars as five cents if we get started right. One gentleman, a patient at the sanitarium, with whom I had only a speaking acquaintance, said he esteemed it a privilege to give five dollars to the work. Doubtless there are many others who would esteem it a privilege to give if only it is presented as such.”

We hope no one will count $1.54 his personal goal. It is not. This simply illustrates what an easy task it would be to raise $100,000 for missions provided every man, woman, and child whose name is on the church book took hold and worked.

The record of orders reached 531,112 on Friday, October 24. Altogether, forty-five conferences have exceeded their last year’s records of orders.

We hope before next week to receive the good word that some conferences have reached in money receipts their portion of the $100,000 for missions.

T. E. BOWEN.