Our Offering This Year
By Arthur G. Daniells
In order to answer the pressing calls that come to us from the world for the light God has given us, we should have a week-of-prayer offering this year of $50,000. This is the estimate made by the officers of the General Conference Committee, who have given the matter very careful study. This call from the dark places of the earth is an appeal to every believer in this message. It should make a deep impression. It should move us to do something. It should result in a $50,000 offering to our missions on Sabbath, December 19. Such an offering is possible. One dollar from each church-member would make more than that sum. Who dares to say that this denomination can not do it? But if it is done, there must be some large giving by some. If no one gives more than a dollar, the offering will fall far short of $50,000; for many will fail to give anything. The situation appeals earnestly to every Seventh-day Adventist. It appeals to every minister of this cause, to arouse and join in the call for to-day help. It appeals to every conference committee to send their conference a rousing call for large giving. It appeals to all the officers of all our churches to take this matter to heart, and place the meaning, the interests, and the needs of missions clearly before all their members. It appeals to the officers and leaders of all departments of our organizations and of our Young People's Societies6to swell this call for help to a loud, universal call. And then it appeals to every believer to give, and give until he feels it, and knows he is giving. Then $50,000 will be given to our missions, Sabbath, December 19. Then relief will come. Then there will be rejoicing in all lands. Then the laborers who have not had their wages in some of the Southern States for months can be paid. Then these laborers can pay their rents, and get their wives and children needed clothing. Then our colored school at Huntsville, Ala., can receive the help it has sorely needed for months, and for which it is still patiently waiting. Then, too, after relieving the urgent needs of our missions, some slight response can be made to earnest calls for enlargement. Brethren and sisters, for the sake of the perishing, for the sake of the whole suffering creation groaning for deliverance, for the sake of Jesus our Redeemer, who now shares all the grief and pain of this suffering world, we must be in earnest about this matter.