Campaign Notes by A. J. S. Bourdeau

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1909

Campaign Notes

By A. J. S. Bourdeau

THERE is every prospect that this year's Harvest Ingathering campaign for missions will eclipse even the great effort put forth by our brethren and sisters last year.

Large orders are coming in for the Missions number of the REVIEW. It is now an every-day occurrence for us to receive orders for four or five hundred copies from single individuals.

“Please, reserve twelve thousand copies of the Missions REVIEW for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference,” writes Elder W. H. Heckman, the president. “We shall want at least that number of copies.”

Accompanying her order for twenty-five copies of the special REVIEW, a dear sister from Delaware writes: “I am seventy-eight years old, but will try to do my best for the dear Master.” With such a spirit among the workers, the campaign is bound to succeed.

To show what can be accomplished by even the little children, a mother in New York City writes: “My little daughter collected eighteen dollars for twelve copies of the REVIEW last year. For one of them she received ten dollars. She is only thirteen years old.”

In less than one week we received orders for 34,470 copies of the special REVIEW. These came from twenty-seven States, and were largely from our isolated brethren and sisters; the large conference orders have not yet arrived. But advices received tell us they are coming.

Mrs. R. G. Stringer, secretary of the Florida Conference, writes: “We would like thirty-six hundred copies of the special REVIEW for the November campaign, to be sent to our camp-ground October 21. As our meeting closes the first day of November, we thought it a good opportunity to send our people home imbued with the missionary spirit, and their hands filled with material to work with.” An excellent way to open the campaign, most assuredly.

“We took the matter up yesterday in the Minneapolis church,” writes Elder R. A. Underwood, president of the Northern Union Conference. “We have divided the church into companies, or missionary bands, each band to meet once a week, and this will be one of the interesting features of the missionary work that will be before them for a few weeks to come. Shall do all we can to keep up our record, and go beyond it.” I note that the average per capita sent in from this union conference during the previous campaign, was 78 3/10 cents, the Atlantic Union Conference sending in 80 3/4 cents for each member.”

Let there be no delay in ordering your supply of the Missions Review and other necessary campaign materials.

A. J. S. BOURDEAU, Missionary Secretary.