Harvest Ingathering Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 10, 1910

Harvest Ingathering Notes

I AM glad to say that the Ingathering campaign is onward. One brother, a farmer, who had to use his papers in the country, received $29.30 from distributing one hundred eleven copies of the REVIEW. This I consider a very good average for country work.

A sister, in sending in a remittance of several dollars, says that she thinks the people give more liberally to missions than they did last year, as they seem to understand the work better. I think that is a good testimony to the advisability of following up the work year after year. The ingathering work is certainly educative. Aside from its direct help for foreign missions, I consider it one of the best kinds of home missionary work that our people have ever undertaken. I think the work a grand success.

A. R. OGDEN, Utica, Mo.

Brother E. E. Pennington, located at Little Falls, has sent us a check for fifty-three dollars, the amount received from distributing three hundred copies of the Missions number of the REVIEW.

Mrs. Ella F. Ogden, Swedesboro, took seventy-five papers, and going forth with the earnestness of her first love for the third angel’s message, she was able to secure about forty dollars, making a splendid average of fifty-three cents for each paper distributed.

Mrs. C. E. Tickner, of Newton, reports receiving a check for five dollars from a friend, in return for one paper sent through the mail.

Brother J. E. Layton, of Newton, sings the praises to the “Creator of earth and sky” for his precious experiences while giving away several hundred papers. He received about thirty dollars.

D. K. ROYER, Trenton, N. J.

Your letter to Elder C. B. Stephenson in regard to the Harvest Ingathering campaign was read with interest. I notice that the workers in your general office are sending out their copies of the REVIEW by post. You will be glad to know that we are doing the same here at this office, besides our personal work.

We had one especially interesting experience. In answer to one of our letters, we received a telephone message from a flour-mill, offering to send us some flour as a donation if we would accept it. We, of course, told them we would accept it, by all means. When they brought the flour, the bill was $8.79, marked, “A donation.” As we can get this money out of the flour, we can turn over the full amount to foreign missions.

HELEN D. DOWSETT, Atlanta, Ga.

I am a reader of your paper, the REVIEW AND HERALD, although I am not an adherent of your faith. However, I am, for certain reasons, much interested in your denomination and your work.

During the holidays I received a package of ten papers, and as I am not much of a missionary worker, I left them lying in the lobby of the hotel where I am stopping, and I noticed that several were reading them, and they elicited considerable discussion. In reading the papers a little later on, I discovered that they were to be used in swelling a certain missionary fund, so I am enclosing to you a dollar to pay for the same.

I admire your denomination, for I believe that most of its members are honest and sincere, and you are certainly blessing the world in your promulgation of health principles.

A FRIEND, Sandpoint, Idaho.

I must tell you of my success with the Harvest Ingathering number of the REVIEW. I received my ten copies, but was so busy for the first few weeks that I could not touch them, but they just worried me until December 23, when I felt that I must make a start. So during the noon hour, while at my room, I asked the Lord in prayer to direct me in the way, as I wanted to begin with one of our wealthiest citizens. That afternoon I went across the street to this gentleman, and presented the paper to him. He took it, but when I gave him the solicitor’s card, and he saw that the list had not been started, he objected to putting his name down first. So I turned to his partner and asked him if he would start the list. He responded by giving two dollars. Then the first one put his name down for $2.50. A nephew of his in the same office also gave two dollars.

Then I went to another office and secured a few dollars more, after which I solicited whenever opportunity offered, and finally turned in my card with sixteen names and seventeen dollars. Really I had only one refusal.

A WORKER, Colon, Panama.