The Harvest Ingathering for Missions by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 9, 1909

The Harvest Ingathering for Missions

By Arthur G. Daniells

“No retreat!” This should henceforth be our motto until the gospel has accomplished its mission in every land, and the saints are gathered home. At the camp-meetings that I have had the pleasure of attending this season, this has been the universal sentiment of God’s people.

Every year we are gaining ground in foreign mission fields. The funds are increasing, and additional laborers are being sent out. Now, we must maintain those who have been sent, and provide additional recruits to answer the many earnest appeals for more help which are coming to us, especially from such lands as China, India, Japan, and Africa. In order to do this, we must not only do as well as we have done in the past in providing mission funds for the support of these workers, but each year there must be a steady gain.

The success of the Thanksgiving effort with the Missions number of the REVIEW last year was a great encouragement and help. It was an organized missionary effort of the highest order, which proved a great blessing wherever our people made missionary calls upon their neighbors and friends. The funds collected in this way were sufficient to pay all the expenses of the campaign, and provide in addition about thirty thousand dollars for missions. This enabled us to send to foreign lands twenty-five additional missionaries, pay their transportation expenses, and support them for one year.

As already announced in the REVIEW, this work is being organized again this year as a harvest ingathering for foreign missions. The special number of the REVIEW is about ready to go to press. Arrangements have already been perfected for handling the work. Information, instruction, and the necessary plans will soon be ready for all the workers.

What shall be our purpose this year? Certainly we must not do less than last year, for the workers we have sent out must be supported. Shall we not double the results of last year, so that we may send twenty-five more missionaries to answer the urgent calls from needy fields?

We trust that our brethren and sisters everywhere will respond promptly and enthusiastically to the call. We anticipate that plans for this work will be thoroughly organized in every conference, and in all churches, young people’s societies, colleges and other schools, sanitariums, and publishing houses. In fact, it is our confident hope that every Seventh-day Adventist will take an earnest part in this campaign, and at least double the effort of last year. May the Lord’s blessing rest abundantly upon the plans and efforts of all his people.

A. G. DANIELLS.