The Harvest Ingathering Campaign
How many members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will engage in the Harvest Ingathering campaign for 1913? How many through indifference or fear of failure will hold back and refrain from making any effort? We probably shall never be able to furnish an accurate estimate of the number of either class. While this knowledge would be interesting, it is by no means essential. The really essential question for each one to determine is to which class he will belong. Dear reader, to which class will you belong? Here is a plan which has been set in operation for the entire membership of the church. It is a plan which has been successfully worked, and that, too, with increasing efficiency, for several years. The plan has accomplished much in the way of beneficial results:— 1. To those who have engaged in this work there has come a rich personal blessing. Nothing so brings strength to the soul as labor for others. Engaging in this service has brought many rich personal blessings throughout the time the plan has been in operation. 2. It has been the means of bringing to thousands of people a knowledge of our work as a denomination. They have come to recognize that this movement is not one of local influence. Its operations are world-wide. This people, in place of confining their missionary efforts to Christian peoples, are reaching out to earth’s remotest bounds and are putting forth earnest, sacrificing labor for those in the darkness of heathenism. The way has been opened by this introduction to bring to interested ones a fuller knowledge944of the system of truths which we hold as a people. 3. We never can estimate the good which has been accomplished by the means gathered in these campaigns. From thirty to forty thousand dollars each year have been added to our mission funds. By this addition scores of laborers have been enabled to go out into the mission field and receive support. Eternity alone will reveal the good which has been accomplished as the result of this gathering. Dear reader, will you not have a part in the accomplishment of this threefold result in the campaign of 1913? You may confidently expect that God will go before you and open hearts and homes to your visit. You will be engaged in the great concert of effort which is going on throughout the entire field. In this feeling of community interest with other believers there is strength and inspiration. Let all rally this year to an active part in the Harvest Ingathering campaign.