A New Plan by L. Flora Plummer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1912

A New Plan

By L. Flora Plummer

Our Sabbath-school offerings have now reached so large a sum that it is thought we may safely have a special object for which we may set apart the gifts of—

One Sabbath in Each Quarter

without crippling the work that must be supported in the “most needy fields,” for which purpose the Sabbath-school offerings have been used for some time. The General Conference Committee has set apart the last Sabbath in each quarter as a day when the Sabbath-schools in the home land may donate to a special field, the field to be designated from quarter to quarter by the General Conference Treasury Department.

March 30, 1912

The new plan goes into effect the thirteenth Sabbath of the present quarter—March 30, 1912. The first special enterprise is the cities of India. Perhaps some will remember the intense interest that was manifest in Calcutta in the winter of 1898-99, when Elder D. A. Robinson began his work in that city. When he commenced his lectures on the signs of the last days and the coming of the Lord, the street in front of the theater where the meetings were held was fairly blocked with the carriages that brought the people to hear the message. His death stopped that work. Since that time calls have repeatedly come for evangelists to enter Calcutta and other cities of India. Each year the call has grown more urgent and more imperative. From the standpoint of the treasury, the enlargement of the work in this way seemed quite impossible, but the need was so urgent that Brethren G. W. Pettit and J. M. Comer, with their wives, have been sent to India to open up work in the cities. They are now there. The need for means to carry on this work is immediate and most urgent. It is hoped that the Sabbath-school offerings on the thirteenth Sabbath of this quarter will be so liberal that this work may be quite fully established. Let the unconscious call from the millions of India sound in our ears until it is our chiefest delight to respond to that call. Brethren Pettit and Comer understand that on March 30 the Sabbath-schools in this country will remember them and their work in a substantial way. Let us not disappoint them.

Pray as You Give

Let every giver pray on that day that God will bless his gift and bless the work in India. By intelligent, prayerful, cheerful giving, our gifts may be multiplied as were the five loaves and two fishes, and a multitude blessed thereby. Pray as you give. On that day let there be a season of prayer in every Sabbath-school in behalf of the cities of India.

How to Send the Money

The offering is to pass through the regular channels to the mission field. In sending Sabbath-school money for missions to the treasury, state how much of it should be set apart as the thirteenth Sabbath offering to the cities of India. This, as well as other Sabbath-school offerings to missions, will be counted on the fifteen-cent-a-week fund. May God give us liberal hearts. May we each receive the blessing that comes to him who by self-sacrifice is hastening the footsteps of the coming King.

Mrs. L. Flora Plummer, Cor. Sec. S. S. Dept. of Gen. Conf.