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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 26, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 4.

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Notes From the Treasury

By W. T. Knox

The reports received from the Harvest Ingathering campaign indicate that the results from this effort will be equally as good as those of previous years. Wherever the work has been taken up with energy, encouraging returns are promised. From a report from the Montana Tract Society, the following extracts from letters are taken:—
“I have received the REVIEW, and so far have collected over ten dollars, and have my solicitor's card about half filled with names, and plan on working the rest of the month. I can not work long at a time, but have to pick my spare hours.”
“Just a word before I go to work this morning with the REVIEW. Was out yesterday, and in less than half the day received $35.30. I pray that God will bless me to-day in the work. My mark is one hundred dollars.”
The following is from a faithful sister seventy-seven years of age, who lives in New Jersey:—
“Enclosed please find check for twenty-three dollars for the Harvest Ingathering Fund. I praise the Lord for the wonderful help he gave me. I had ten papers, but I did not know that I could do anything this fall. I am seventy-seven years old, and not very well; but I said that with the Lord's help I would try. I have been able to visit only one home. I sent by mail two or three papers. See what the Lord has done. Praise his holy name. It truly is all of the Lord. He has indeed blessed me in the Ingathering work.”
A brother in New Zealand, who was not able to take up the work in the campaign for 1909 till long after the appointed time, writes:—
“I am enclosing a post-office money-order for five pounds English money, nearly twenty-five dollars American. The larger part of this sum was received in donations through the distribution of the last Harvest Ingathering REVIEW; that is, the issue for 1909. Fifty copies were used, and this is the result. . . .”
“As I am engaged in work among the Maoris, I did not leave that work to collect for the foreign mission fund, but called on the Europeans as opportunity offered. My first donation was from an Irishman, who is, nominally at least, a Roman Catholic. He is also in the bondage of the drink habit, but desires to overcome it. I have been encouraging him to trust in God for the victory, and not in his own efforts. This man started my list with nearly five dollars. Sums varying from half a dollar to five dollars were given. “Among those whom I visited was the mayor of Gisborne, who gave twenty-one shillings, about five dollars. We trust the papers distributed and posted in this way will result in enlightening the people in regard to the message for this time, and that the amount received will be used of God for the salvation of souls in other lands.”
The following from two sisters in Manitoba shows what can be done by those who have heavy household duties:—
“One sister who has heavy household responsibilities and is the only member of the family in the truth, has distributed eight copies of the REVIEW, and received donations to the amount of $10.70,—an average of $1.33 a copy. She is anxious to do still more, and has taken a fresh supply of papers, expecting to continue the work until the close of the campaign.”
“Another sister, who was not able to get away from home, has mailed twenty-five papers, and sends five dollars to help along the work, an average of twenty cents a copy.”
W. T. Knox.