p. 112 | The World-Wide Week of Prayer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1902

The World-Wide Week of Prayer.

By William Ambrose Spicer

LETTERS to the Mission Board, from other lands, with one accord bring the word that the week-of-prayer season was one of special blessing. It marked an advance move all along the ranks. It is too early as yet to say how large an offering for the missions was given during the week. It takes several months for full reports to come in through the various channels. But the treasurer's accounts show that, combining the annual offerings and the regular contributions for last quarter, the funds for the world-wide mission fields have been flowing in at the rate of about a thousand dollars a day this year.

From many States comes the word that the largest offering in the history of the Conference is assured. The president of the Southwestern Union Conference, for instance, writes: “Colorado will show about double the previous year. Texas doubles any former year, or nearly so. Oklahoma has two and a half or three times as much as in any former year. Kansas is indefinite, as yet, but an encouraging increase is evident. Others I have no direct word from.”

These are words of cheer to the needy fields abroad, and to all, and it shows that many people believe that the Lord is soon to come. This money is not to be banked, but to be laid out in pressing the lines of truth into the dark world beyond. The workers are going out. But in order that the work may be not only begun, but carried on to the finish, all must rally to keep up the regular weekly offerings during this year. Last year's full report of contributions for the missions shows an increase over 1900 of $37,500. What increase shall 1902 show over 1901?

W. A. SPICER, Sec. Mission Board.