The Sabbath Schools and Missions by Mrs. L. Flora Plummer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 27, 1910

The Sabbath Schools and Missions

By Mrs. L. Flora Plummer

Climbing

INTEREST in Sabbath-school finances has never been greater. Thermometers are breaking in every conference and in almost every land. Eleven new conferences are on the honor roll for the first time, making a total list of twenty-seven. At last we have one union conference, the Western Canadian, giving all Sabbath-school offerings to missions. Two others, the Atlantic and Northern union conferences, have almost attained that distinction, in each case one conference only reports expense taken from the regular offerings. The total amount given to missions during the third quarter is $31,376.95.

The following items are of general interest:—

Schools in the Home Land

	TOTAL	GIFTS TO
	CONTRIBUTIONS	MISSIONS
First Quarter . . .	$19,459.87	$16,989.53
Second Quarter . .	22,436.76	20,670.34
Third Quarter . . .	25,014.46	24,026.39
Totals . . . . .	$66,911.09	$61,686.26

The total contributions during the corresponding period of 1908 were $58,401.93; increase in 1909, $8,511.96; the gifts to missions were $51,662.91; increase, $10,019.35.

Our Honor Roll

Vermont	Greater New York
Alberta	British Columbia
Saskatchewan	South Dakota
Quebec	District of Columbia
West. New York	Iowa
Texas	Southern Idaho
West Texas	Cen. New England
Alabama	Montana
New York	Georgia
Florida	North Dakota
Maine	Louisiana
Manitoba	North Carolina
W. Pennsylvania	Southern Illinois
Kentucky

The complete records for the year will undoubtedly show that our Sabbath-schools in all the world have gone well beyond the one-hundred-thousand-dollar mark in their gifts to missions. We congratulate our Sabbath-schools everywhere upon this splendid achievement. We will not change the motto for 1910, but will ask the schools in the United States and Canada to make it theirs. “One hundred thousand dollars to missions from the schools in the United States and Canada!” It looks right. It sounds right. And we believe the Sabbath-schools will meet it right.

MRS. L. FLORA PLUMMER, Cor. Sec. S. S. Dept.