The Ingathering for Missions by A. J. S. B.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 2, 1909

The Ingathering for Missions

By A. J. S. B.

NINE members of the Scranton (Pa.) church distributed seventy-seven copies of the Missions REVIEW during the first campaign week, and received in return the sum of $63.25.

Up to Tuesday evening, November 23, the total demand for the Missions number of the REVIEW called for 704,680 copies. Numerous orders are still being received for this paper.

Sister Borchgrevink, one of our Scandinavian Bible workers in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, recently received during one week the sum of twenty-six dollars for foreign missions.

One of our Sabbath-school scholars in the North Philadelphia (Pa.) church recently sent a copy of the Missions REVIEW to an Episcopalian minister, accompanying the same with a short note of explanation. The minister replied with a donation of a one-dollar bill.

Elder W. H. Heckman, of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, informs us that one of our brethren, the engineer on the Lackawanna Railroad whose experience during the last year's campaign is referred to on page 4 of our little “Instruction Leaflet,” is busily engaged in the same work this year. He has received thus far in donations about fifty dollars, and is still at work.

A minister of Oklahoma, not of our faith, is a regular subscriber for the REVIEW. He was, therefore, one of the many who received the ten extra copies of the Missions number. We quote the following from an interesting letter just received from this brother: “I am not a member of your denomination, but I take the REVIEW and enjoy reading it. I am a minister, a union or undenominational worker. You sent me ten copies of the Missions REVIEW to sell in behalf of foreign missions. I send you herewith post-office money-order for $7.70 for your foreign missions.”

Dr. E. L. Paulding, of California, sends the following interesting item regarding his personal effort in the campaign work: “I went out with the REVIEW and did the best I could, but we are located in a rather poor ten-acre-ranch region, where crops have been light for the past two years. The first twenty copies of the REVIEW given out brought in four and one-half dollars. The next fifteen copies raised my donations to $10.15, so I am improving as I go. I hope that the California Conference will stand at the head of the list in its contributions.”

Elder D. U. Hale, president of the Southern Missouri Conference, writes an encouraging letter in regard to the progress of the Harvest Ingathering campaign in that district. Among other things, he says: “I know that we are better organized than we were last year, at which time many papers were not well used. In one of our churches some of the sisters who were unable to go out themselves arranged to take care of the children of another sister while she went. She was gone two days, and returned with donations amounting to over seven dollars. The entire church rejoiced with the one who went out. The Lord is surely coming very near to his people.” Perhaps other small companies composed largely of sisters could follow some such plan as this. A. J. S. B.