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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 18, 1913

The Next Thirteenth Sabbath a Great Opportunity

By L. Flora Plummer

How it thrills our hearts to know that one hundred missionaries have turned their faces to the “regions beyond” in response to the action of the last General Conference. Even now some of them are tossing upon the seas, outward bound. We have set our hands to the finishing of the work, and there must from henceforth be no wavering. When workers are willing to go, the means to send them must be supplied. The transportation expense of one hundred workers from the home land to the “uttermost parts of the earth” calls for a large cash outlay of means, and the resources of the General Conference treasury are strained to the utmost in consequence. Indeed, it is doubtful if the plans in full can be carried out if special help is not given.

To meet this emergency the General Conference Committee has turned to the Sabbath-schools in the home land for help, and set apart September 27, the thirteenth Sabbath of the third quarter, as the time when the schools may give for the special purpose of paying the transportation expenses of the one hundred missionaries who are to go this fall to foreign fields. Shall we not work and pray for an especially liberal offering? It will truly be a sad thing if any of these missionaries under appointment remain at home on account of lack of means to pay their fare to the mission field. As we love this truth, as we believe it is soon to lighten the whole earth with its glory, let us deny self, and plan to give on that Sabbath, as we have never done before, that every selected missionary may be hastened on his way.

Remember the date, Sabbath, September 27.

Remember the object, the transportation expenses of one hundred appointed missionaries to their mission fields.

Remember to pray that God will give his people liberal hearts, that his work be not hindered nor his coming delayed.

MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER, Secretary Sabbath School Department.