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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 22, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 47.

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Our Present Plan

By E. W. Farnsworth

We recommend that all our churches [in the Atlantic Union Conference] meet in their places of worship on Thanksgiving day and hold a thanksgiving service; that as far as possible arrangements be made at once for conducting such a service; and that thank-offerings, both large and small, be brought at that time. There will be many who can not attend this meeting, we know; but they can bring their offering the Sabbath following; and if there are isolated persons who can not meet in public worship at all, let them send their offerings to the librarian or to the State secretary of the tract society. Let us make this a universal offering, in which every one may have a part. Those to whom God has given much should give much. Those who have but little may, in “the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty,” abound “unto the riches of their liberality.”
Will not every one who loves God and present truth make this an occasion to bring a heart offering of gratitude to him? “Every man according as he purposeeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.” E. W. FARNSWORTH.