For a Growing Work by W. A. Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 14, 1911

For a Growing Work

By W. A. Spicer

By arrangement of the General Conference regarding the five regular annual offerings, Sabbath, October 7, brings again the offering for work among the colored people in the South.

Our brethren may plan for the gifts this year with a knowledge that previous offerings have accomplished definite results. We rejoice at what we see. The organization of the General Conference Negro Department, at the General Conference two years ago, was expected greatly to strengthen and multiply the activities in this work. And the Lord has blessed our colored brethren as they have pressed forward.

Some time ago the department reported that of all the believers among the colored people in this country, half of the number have accepted the truth during the last two years, or little more.

This growth, as is always the case, brings only heavier pressure upon the department. On every side the workers hear calls for advance. More laborers are to be trained, more mission schools to be established, and newly opened doors are to be entered. The situation presses for a universal and liberal offering in the churches on October 7. Last year this offering brought in $10,720. The growth of the work and the increasing urgency of the need set the mark, surely, of $15,000, as the result to aim at this year by a united effort.

W. A. SPICER, Gen. Conf. Secretary.