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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 9, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 10.

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Behold the Fields

By L. N. Muck

A Word in Behalf of the Blind

In John 4:35 we find these words: “Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” Call after call is echoing and re-echoing through the great harvest-field for the gospel. The call may come from the far-away harvest-field or from those nearest our door, but in either case let us respond with willing hearts. “Go ye into all the world,” says Jesus, “and preach the gospel to every creature.” As we consider the needs of the great harvest-field, and make our offerings for its support, let us not forget the blind. Sacrifice just a little for these unfortunate ones. We shall not be able to open their physical eyes, but we can give them spiritual sight. What a pleasure it should be to those enjoying perfect sight to help those who can not see!
The Christian Record work is onward. It is on a better financial basis than it has ever been heretofore, yet we are far from accomplishing what we should. Last year a number of the union and local conferences adopted a plan which, if thoroughly worked out by all the conferences, would enable us successfully to carry forward the work of giving the message to the blind. We believe that all the conferences will gladly co-operate with us in our struggle to help those in double darkness. Last year the Central Union Conference voted to appropriate three hundred dollars a year to the Christian Record, and to recommend that each local conference should raise for this work an amount equal to ten cents a year for each member. This plan has been adopted and quite generally carried out by the Lake, Northern, and Southwestern union conferences.
Wherever the plan has been presented, the brethren have assured us that they will help to get it in working operation. The plan is so simple and easy that no conference,no matter how small, need hesitate to adopt it, and we hope, before the first of another year, to see the ten-cent-a-member plan adopted by all our union and local conferences in the United States and Canada. Once the plan is worked out, we shall have sufficient means to answer the call made on us by the blind. This will relieve those in charge of the work of the responsibility of traveling from place to place to gather in the necessary funds. We therefore invite those conferences that have not adopted the plan to do so. It simply means that each member in the conference will pay into the treasury ten cents a year. The amount is small, and every one can raise it.
The blind in other lands are anxiously waiting for the gospel. As we have had call after call for literature, from the blind across the water, we believe that the time has come for us to lift up our eyes, and behold the thousands of hungry blind in other countries. Hitherto we have been forced to turn a deaf ear to these calls because we did not have the means, but we believe that steps should now be taken to answer them. May the Lord enlarge our hearts to see the magnitude of the work, and help us to unite in one grand effort to finish the work in this generation.
Those wishing to have a part in giving this saving message to the blind, and desiring to contribute, will please forward their gifts to Mettie E. Cornell, Christian Record secretary, College View, Neb.         L. N. MUCK.
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