Our Mission Receipts for the Quarter Ending June 30
By W. T. Bland
We submit herewith an itemized statement of the receipts of funds at our general office for the second quarter of the present year. It is from these remittances that come in from all parts of our country that we are enabled to supply our missions in the various parts of the world with funds with which to keep their work going. This is the great work of the denomination to-day—the carrying of the message of truth to all parts of the earth. It is a work that all may have a part in, though all may not go to these distant lands. Those who do must necessarily make great sacrifice, but this entire work is one of sacrifice, and will be to the end. Last week we published a list of the mission fields that are being helped this year, together with the appropriations made to each field and the amounts paid on the appropriations during the first half of the year. The table submitted this week will be of special interest to all whose hearts are drawn out to the great mission fields of the world—and this should certainly include every Seventh-day Adventist to-day. It will be noticed that the Atlantic Union Conference has made the largest total offerings during the quarter, with the Pacific Union Conference a close second. The showing of the Canadian and Southern Union Conferences is quite small, but in all probability full reports of remittances have not been received from either of these conferences. In the weekly offerings to missions the Central Union Conference leads all others in the amount reported, while the Lake Union makes the largest donation from the Sabbath-school funds to the foreign mission work.