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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 17.

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To Our Church Officers and Workers

By A. J. Haysmer

I wish to write a few lines to you through the Review, and I wish you to accept it as a personal letter. I know you are interested in the closing of this work, and in hastening the time when the faithful from every nation will be gathered home. I believe you are also interested in getting this truth before the colored people in this country as well as in other countries and the islands of the sea. The colored people in the United States comprise one eighth of the entire population, and we have a great work to do to get the truth before them. In order to do this work, we need not only the prayers but also the assistance of our people.
While we need money very much, and the work can not be carried on without it, that is not what I am asking for in this article. I am writing in behalf of the Gospel Herald, the organ of the North American Negro Department. No doubt all who receive this paper read with interest the reports of the progress of the work done among the colored people. There are many papers; but as we all like to read the interesting reports of the progress of the work from every field, I trust all will wish to read about our mission field right here at home. The Gospel Herald is the only paper that contains these reports. It is only twenty-five cents a year, and it should visit every home. It is filled with reports from our ministers, Bible workers, and nearly twenty mission teachers.
Will you not, as church officers, missionary secretaries, and young people's secretaries, take up this matter with our people, and do all you can to secure a goodly number of subscriptions for this paper? It is now being printed by the students of our training-school. This enables several to work their way through school, who could not otherwise attend. Subscribe for the paper yourselves, and as far as possible get all our people to subscribe also.
A. J. HAYSMER.