A Note on Mission Finance by F. H. Devinney

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

A Note on Mission Finance

By F. H. Devinney

THE distance between the outposts of our mission work in Japan is now nearly 1,300 miles. This makes it both difficult and expensive to administer our affairs; but we are trying to administer them in the most economical manner possible. While nearly all other religious literature is given away, ours is all sold. We believe that to give away the publication makes it of less value in the minds of the people. Though the price paid is very small, yet it entails some sacrifice upon the purchaser, and is a much better training, besides helping to carry the truth to somebody else by producing more literature. The people of the great middle class are poor,— by American standards very poor,— and they have very little money left from month to month after the most common, meager essentials of life are procured.

JAPANESE FARMER GATHERING BAMBOO SPROUTS FOR EATING

But we are everywhere teaching the believers the privilege and the obligation of bearing a part in sending on the good news they have received to their fellow men by their tithes and offerings. These as yet are small, but are increasing each year.

F. H. DEVINNEY.

Tokio, Japan.