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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 9, 1909

Harvest Ingathering for Missions

By A. J. S. Bourdeau

“Thy people offer themselves willingly in the day of thy power, in holy array.” Ps. 110:3, A. R. V.

Special Campaign Week, Nov. 1-6.

Full Campaign Period, Nov. 1 to Dec. 31.

IN our mail received during the four days ending Tuesday, November 30, were orders calling for 7,130 copies of the Missions number of the REVIEW,—an average of 1,782 copies a day.

Mrs. C. L. Bennett, of South Dakota, sends in her “Official Solicitor’s Card” containing the names of eleven persons who donated $4.75 to missions. This, as will be seen, is an average of forty-three cents for each person.

Elder R. A. Underwood, president of the Northern Union Conference, reports that our English church in Minneapolis, Minn., has already circulated three thousand copies of the Missions number of the REVIEW. He says: “Some of the aged sisters have been out. Sister Bernstein took thirty-five copies and secured five dollars. One sister who was on her back and could not go out of the house, and some others who could not leave on account of cares in the home, have solicited from persons who have come to them, and have secured all the way from one dollar to four dollars.”

Brother A. J. Bristol of the Review and Herald Periodical Department reports a donation of $1.50 to missions on the part of a firm with whom he has been doing business.

Brother D. K. Royer, secretary of the New Jersey Conference, reports another interesting item in connection with his personal work in behalf of funds for missions. He says: “From four persons to whom I talked I secured $3.50. I expect more, of course, as I am still keeping at it.”

Brethren Frank Hayes and N. D. Staughton, employees of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, have just received a check for ten dollars from a large firm to whom they had sent a copy of the Missions REVIEW, accompanied by an explanatory letter.

We have recently received a number of large orders from our workers in foreign fields. Our Chinese Mission orders two hundred fifty more copies of the Missions REVIEW. One of our brethren in Burma (a government prosecutor) orders four hundred copies, and a sister in another part of Burma sends for two hundred copies. The same mail brought orders for fifty additional copies from other parts of India.

We are pleased to note the systematic way in which the Harvest Ingathering Campaign was carried on by our church in Minneapolis, Minn. Writing of the matter, Elder R. A. Underwood says: “The church was divided into about twelve companies, each with a leader; and they have done more thorough work than they did last year. The city was divided into sections, different ones being assigned their territory. We believe that a large donation will come in from the entire field this year.”

Up to November 24 Sister T. D. Gibson, of the Minneapolis (Minn.) church, had secured in donations the sum of $74.25. She solicited from house to house and in the large office buildings in the main part of the city. The largest donation she received from any individual was one dollar, many being ten-cent pieces or twenty-five-cent pieces. She has circulated in all about three hundred papers, and has thus received an average of nearly twenty-five cents a copy. This is indeed a splendid record, and will prove an incentive to other active workers located in our large cities.

Brother C. H. Jones, manager of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, has just sent us the following interesting item concerning the progress of the campaign in the Mountain View (Cal.) church: “Our office was closed last Monday, November 15, and nearly all the employees went to the little towns in the Santa Clara Valley. We had some very interesting experiences. Thus far the donations amount to about one hundred fifty dollars. I have secured about fifty dollars from various merchants with whom I am acquainted, and expect still more.”

A. J. S. BOURDEAU.