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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 28, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 43.

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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.
As before stated, all orders are being filled in the exact order of their receipt at this office.
All should carefully peruse the “Instruction Leaflet” and the “Official Solicitor’s Card” before beginning work.
Every day the presses of the Review and Herald deliver a large truck full of printed sheets of the Missions REVIEW for the bindery to fold, stitch, and trim during the night.
Doubtless many will be able to devote more than one week to this good work. All who can should continue the campaign at favorable and convenient seasons until the close of the year.
Those intending to solicit donations by correspondence should provide themselves with not less than two copies of the “Official Solicitor’s Card,” one for local use and the other to enclose in correspondence.
Remember that the Harvest Ingathering campaign begins Monday morning, November 1, but does not end until December 31. You thus have an opportunity of joining in the ranks at even the eleventh hour.
We are just in receipt of an order from the Southern New England Conference for 3,375 copies of the Missions number of the REVIEW to be sent to forty-one different persons, mostly church officers.
Numerous telegrams are being received from distant States calling for papers and other campaign supplies. Immediately upon their receipt, these telegraphic orders are placed in line with the many other orders received the same day.
All of the churches in the District of Columbia Conference gave special consideration to the Harvest Ingathering campaign October 2, or one week earlier than our other conferences. The large orders already received from these churches indicate a good interest.
If you receive more copies of the Missions REVIEW or other supplies than you can use, kindly pass them on to some other member of your church. In so doing you may be the means of enlisting the services of one extra worker who was not planning to engage in this work.
Something of an idea of the work of making and handling an edition of five hundred thousand copies of such a paper as the Missions number of the REVIEW may be gained by merely stating that the half million copies will weigh ninety-two thousand five hundred pounds, or over forty-six tons.
During the past few days we have been taking to the post-office wagon-loads of mail-sacks filled with the Missions number of the REVIEW. We have been obliged to stack these sacks up in great piles on the three floors of the large Review and Herald building, partially filling the halls and vestibules.
On Sunday, October 17, we were obliged to place an additional order for one hundred thousand copies of the Missions number of the REVIEW, making a total edition thus far of six hundred thousand copies. At the rate the orders are coming in, it will be necessary to place another large order within a few days.
Up to Tuesday noon, October 19, the total number of orders received for the Missions number of the REVIEW called for a grand total of 348,942 copies. This, of course, does not include thousands of sample copies that have been sent out. The orders received each day are consuming, on an average, from thirty to forty thousand copies.
The usual “three days’ grace” has been allowed on all orders for campaign supplies received at this office after Friday, October 15. Orders received after October 18 are entered as “late” orders, and will be filled immediately after those which came in on time. If the label on your package of Missions REVIEW is marked “MRL,” you will know that this was among the late orders. If your label is marked “MR,” your order was received on time.
Remember the “second campaign week” (November 7-12); also the “second missionary rally,” to be held Sabbath, November 13. If for any reason your order for the Missions REVIEW and other supplies does not reach you in time to enable you to join in the first effort during the first campaign week (November 1-6), do not feel anxious concerning the matter, for you can arrange individually, or as a church, if necessary, to devote the second campaign week (November 7-12), or any other week before the close of the year, to this enterprise.
A. J. S. BOURDEAU.