Harvest Ingathering for Missions by A. J. S. Bourdeau

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 45.

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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 Information

A. J. S. BOURDEAU

BROTHER H. C. LOCKWOOD, the foreman of our pressroom, showed the Missions REVIEW to a traveling salesman, who at once became interested in our work, and gave his check for ten dollars.

During the three weeks ending October 29, we sent out an average of over three tons of the Missions number of the REVIEW each day. It looks good to see these hundreds of sacks of papers, containing present truth, going out to the people.

On Tuesday, November 2, we were obliged to place another printing order for twenty-five thousand additional copies of the Harvest Ingathering number of the REVIEW. When these are printed, they will swell the total edition to seven hundred thousand copies.

This is the time to approach those with whom you have been trading for years. Tell your grocer, your baker, your milkman, and other tradespeople of the scope of our work. Show them the Missions REVIEW, and ask them to assist. Very few will refuse to give at least fifty cents to our missionary enterprises.

In acknowledging the receipt of the package of ten copies of the Missions REVIEW, a brother in Missouri writes: “There are just two lone Sabbath-keepers here. I am an old man eighty-four years old. I am sure there is a work to be done here, as several persons have told me that I keep the right day. I wish we could secure an Adventist preacher to work here.” Thousands of our isolated brethren and sisters are thus quietly sowing the seed of truth, and by their daily lives are preparing the way for definite efforts on the part of our ministers.

As fast as you receive money for missions, please turn it over to the treasurer of your local church; or in case you are isolated from an organized church, send it direct to your conference treasurer. You will find his address in the alphabetical list of conferences on pages 14-16 of the special “Instruction Leaflet.” If you have not already received this little leaflet, we will gladly mail it to you promptly on receipt of your request.

Brother O. H. Maxson, one of our nurses from the Washington Sanitarium, now on his way to Peru as a missionary, has sent out sixty copies of the Missions REVIEW to friends and acquaintances, accompanied by a missionary letter. Thus far he has received eight replies. One of the letters contained a check for five dollars. The second reply, received from the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in a large Eastern city, contained twenty-five dollars. The third letter was accompanied by one dollar. This shows what can be done in the way of soliciting through correspondence. Let others try the plan. It is a good and sure one. You may be able to work in this way when you can not personally solicit.

Soliciting by Letter

LAST year the best success in soliciting gifts was secured by some who sent out their papers, accompanied by personal letters, to firms, tradespeople, etc. Those unable to solicit from house to house can do something in this way. The postage on each paper is only one cent.

Generally speaking, all your first letters should be brief. This is especially true of those intended for business men. They should be courteous, straightforward, and to the point. For sample letter addressed to business men, see page 13 of the little “Instruction Leaflet.”

To Our German and Scandinavian Workers

WE have just received word from the International Publishing Assn., College View, Neb., that up to October 27 they had received orders for nine thousand copies of the Missions number of our German paper, the Christlicher Hausfreund. A special issue of this periodical has been prepared, and is now ready for delivery. No special Harvest Ingathering editions of the Evangeliets Sendebud (Danish-Norwegian), nor the Sions Vaktare (Swedish), have been issued. It will thus be necessary for our Swedish and Danish-Norwegian brethren and sisters to use the Missions number of the REVIEW, or some regular issue of their respective papers, in their work of soliciting donations for foreign missions.

Let our brethren and sisters who desire to secure donations for foreign missions from German-speaking friends or relatives, order their papers from the Christlicher Hausfreund, International Publishing Assn., College View, Neb.