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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 25, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 47.

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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.

Campaign Notes

In view of the continued demand for the Missions REVIEW, we have printed two additional editions, amounting to 16,000 copies. Thus the total number printed to date is 716,000 copies.
As previously stated, we shall continue to fill all orders for the Missions REVIEW until December 31. Orders are still coming in at the rate of from three thousand to seven thousand copies a day.
The Allentown (Pa.) church has ordered another five hundred copies of the Missions REVIEW, making fifteen hundred copies in all for that company. They report that they intend to do better work than last year.
Brother Hirlinger, of the Lancaster (Pa.) church, states that all the members are taking hold of the work with more interest even than they did last year. He believes also that the collections will surpass those which were made last year.
Many physically unable to take an active part in this campaign are sending a cash remittance of one dollar or more for the ten extra copies of the REVIEW sent them. Most of them write that they will distribute the papers among their neighbors and friends. In this way those who are unable to engage in soliciting means may help the cause of missions.
Sister J. M. Weiss, of the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, sends an encouraging report in regard to the Harvest Ingathering campaign. She states that the churches are taking hold with enthusiasm, and among other things says: “The business men are responding heartily, although the amounts are not always large. They have treated us with every respect and the greatest courtesy.”
Mrs. J. S. Chandler, of New York, one of our many faithful magazine agents who are engaged in the campaign, writes: “Find enclosed $37 for missions. This is the amount I realized on the 250 copies of the Missions REVIEW ordered. I worked one whole week, donating my expenses during that time, amounting to $9. I obtained a portion of this money by selling Life and Health. How I wish that it were $50 instead of $37! I pray God that this, with the $30 sent some time ago, may be the means of bringing many precious souls into the joy of present truth.” The collections secured by this sister average $1.23 an hour.
The total demand for the Missions number of the REVIEW up to Thursday evening, November 18, called for 702,129 copies.
As the Review and Herald Office closes at noon on Fridays, the employees have one full afternoon off every week. A number of them are taking advantage of this to engage in the campaign work.
We are just in receipt of an order from one of our workers in China for sixty-one copies of the Missions number of the REVIEW to be used in that far-off field. It is encouraging to note that even our missionaries in foreign lands are taking an active part in the great Harvest Ingathering campaign.
As stated before, we shall continue to fill orders for the Missions number of the REVIEW until December 31. Address all orders for additional copies of the special REVIEW and other campaign supplies to your conference tract society; or if you do not know the address of your tract society, order direct from A. J. S. Bourdeau, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Emma F. Stevens, of Maryland, sends us the following encouraging experience: “I received the ten extra copies of the Missions REVIEW you sent me, and mailed them to friends. Thus far I have received donations from two of them. One lady sent me one dollar, and another one fifty cents. I am enclosing one dollar and a half.” Thus the first two letters received contained an average of seventy-five cents each. Soliciting by correspondence is indeed a splendid way in which to engage in the campaign.
Sister J. M. Fisher, of Missouri, sends us a post-office money-order for $6.50, the amount she collected while distributing the ten extra copies of the Missions REVIEW sent her a few days ago. She says: “Please send me one hundred copies of the REVIEW, as I think I shall be able to distribute them to advantage. Many for whom I had no papers gave something. Almost every one gives something.” This is but a sample of the many encouraging letters that are received from day to day from our brethren and sisters who went to work immediately upon receipt of the ten extra copies of the REVIEW sent them.
We are happy to report that before the Review and Herald Office closed its work Friday noon, November 12, every order for the Missions number of the REVIEW had been filled. The first copies were mailed Wednesday, October 6. Thus during these five weeks the Review and Herald bindery mailed about 700,000 copies to our workers. This is truly a splendid record. This means that 140,000 copies of this special REVIEW were mailed each week, besides the regular editions of the other six periodicals issued by this publishing house,—Life and Health, Liberty, the Protestant Magazine, the Youth’s Instructor, Christian Education, and the Sabbath School Worker.
A. J. S. BOURDEAU.