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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 13, 1906

For Next Year’s Advance

By W. A. S.

Over fifty missionaries have gone out into other lands during the past year.

In years past the week-of-prayer offering to missions has supplied about a third of the resources for the mission-field appropriations. With the effort we are all making to respond to the special call for the $150,000 fund, we shall have to keep in mind the ordinary work in the great mission fields, and seek earnestly for ways to make a strong annual offering this year as well as in past years.

Never were the fields in better shape to make use of funds for definite advance into new territory. It has been a year of organizing the work in the mission fields. It has been above all years a time of breaking forth into new regions beyond. The missions will watch with prayerful interest the reports from this year’s annual offering.

Fifty thousand annual offering envelopes have been sent out by the Mission Board. What goes into those envelopes will mean much to missions the coming year. Each envelope bears the Scripture text, “Bring presents unto Him that ought to be feared.” The gifts in the envelopes are for the great King. Let us make sure that the gifts we bring represent genuine love and sacrifice, according to “the measure of the gift of Christ.” Then be the individual offering large or small, according to what a man hath and the love with which it is given,

it will be accepted by the Lord. There is nothing hard about giving for God’s cause, when that cause represents every interest of our souls.

Remember, the last year’s workers have been sent into the mission fields at a rate averaging more than one a week for the entire year. Let us stand by them with every resource God enables us to command.

W. A. S.