The Harvest Ingathering by T. E. Bowen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 10, 1911

The Harvest Ingathering

By T. E. Bowen

WRITING to the brethren and sisters in the Central Union Conference, from Friedensau, July 9, Elder E. T. Russell speaks of the Harvest Ingathering as follows:—

The time for launching the Harvest Ingathering Campaign will soon be upon us, and all should sense the importance of this movement. The net results to the mission treasury from this source during the past two years, after all incidentals in connection with the campaign had been met, were about thirty thousand dollars each year. It is earnestly hoped that this year fully fifty thousand dollars will be realized. Every individual, every family, and every church should plan definitely to do more than they did last year.

The Pacific Press will issue a well-prepared number of the Signs of the Times to be used in the campaign this year. Instruction and data in regard to the campaign will be sent forth from headquarters at Washington, D. C. Let every one be prepared to spring into action when the time comes for the campaign to open.

While the friends in the Central Union Conference are getting ready for work with this Missions Number of the Signs, we feel sure the brethren and sisters in all the other unions will begin to plan for the best effort yet put forth for missions. With united effort we can easily reach the fifty-thousand-dollar mark, as a net gain to missions. The fall camp-meetings will furnish a good opportunity to study the needs of the mission fields, as well as exchange experiences gained in our previous campaign efforts.

By the time this reaches the reader, the large perfecting press at the Signs office will doubtless be turning out the papers at the rate of several thousand an hour, and then after a few swiftly passing weeks it will be our turn to hustle.

Soon the message to earth's waiting millions will have been given, and the general harvest ingathering of souls, as the result of the united efforts of the family in heaven and the family on earth, proclaimed, as Jesus sends forth his angels to reap the harvest of the earth. We shall then count nothing as a hardship that has resulted in the saving of a soul. T. E. BOWEN.