Are You Ready? by Arthur G. Daniells

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

Are You Ready?

By Arthur G. Daniells

THANKSGIVING missionary campaign week is almost here. It will open November 22, and close the twenty-eighth. Much has been said and written about it; great preparations have been made for it, and large results are expected from it.

The REVIEW for Thanksgiving week will contain thirty-two pages, and will be devoted entirely to our foreign missionary endeavors. It will contain nearly one hundred fifty illustrations. Four hundred thousand copies have been ordered. Two presses are now running day and night, six days in the week, to get this large edition out in time for the campaign.

In a few days the railway trains will begin carrying this special to all parts of the United States. And then the campaign will open. As its opening approaches, every earnest believer in this message must begin to feel very anxious about it, and to wonder how it will close.

The possibilities of that week are great. First, it will be possible for us to place in the hands of our neighbors nearly half a million copies of the fullest public statement we have ever made about our world-wide missionary endeavors. These will doubtless be read by at least two million people. This alone, if nothing more were accomplished, would justify the effort planned.

But more is aimed at. It will be possible to obtain from those who receive the papers at least a quarter of a million dollars to aid in carrying forward our missionary enterprises.

Surely such great possibilities should appeal to every loyal believer in this cause. This money is sorely needed. It must be secured if we do our duty in proclaiming this message in foreign lands. Thus far we have endeavored to carry the financial burden of this world-wide effort without appealing to the public. But now that we have entered nearly all the dark heathen lands of the world, we find the demands too great for our resources. We believe that these demands rest upon all who have received so many blessings from the Lord. It is only right that they should devote a portion of what he has given them to the extension of his work. And they will do so if rightly solicited.

O, may a great awakening come to all our dear people just now! The hour for earnest, prayerful effort is almost here. Who will be wise enough to improve this opportunity, and share in reaping as great results as possible?

Brother, sister, if you have made no decision up to this moment to take an active part in this great campaign, decide right here and now to do so, and arrange at once for a supply of papers. Go to your church officers, or send to the conference office, or to the Review and Herald, for all the copies you are determined to use in this effort.

A. G. DANIELLS.