The Mission Funds by William Ambrose Spicer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

The Mission Funds

By William Ambrose Spicer

With people perishing for lack of knowledge, we must press the workers forward and send the means into the fields without delay. The advanced line is now pushed outward to the utmost extent of the mission funds. On this account, State and union treasuries will find it necessary to remit the missionary offering to the Mission Board treasury with the least possible delay. Although last year's offering showed a large increase, the additional work taken up abroad, and the help given the great and needy work of Southern and Canadian fields have taken every cent of the increase. An immediate and continuous inflow of means is needed to meet the calls that cannot be denied without turning away from some that are looking to us in confidence for help. Openings, of the most cheerful and inspiring character, demand just now a strong advance. The church, if true, will surely take hold of the systematic plan and make weekly offerings enthusiastically. The average of ten cents a week for each member might be reached at once, and it alone would keep a stream of a thousand dollars a day flowing out upon the earth's desert places. Why not have it so at once? And will not those who can do so remember the mission fields with large gifts just now? W. A. SPICER