A Follow-Up Work by R. A. Underwood

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1911

A Follow-Up Work

By R. A. Underwood

OUR brethren and sisters are engaged in a campaign to gather funds for the mission fields, by the circulation of the missionary number of the Signs. They are visiting their neighbors and friends, and soliciting them for donations. Doubtless they will have many interesting experiences in this work.

At the recent council in Washington a large committee appointed to consider the Sanitarium Relief campaign and the great work done by the sanitariums, made a number of recommendations. Among these were the following:—

“1. We recommend, That this ‘Ministry of Healing’ campaign be prosecuted by our people with renewed vigor and earnestness until complete success crowns our efforts.”

“5. We would recommend, That the week following the week of prayer, December 18-25, be set apart by all our people for placing ‘Ministry of Healing’ before the people, and we would recommend, that during this time other matters, so far as possible, be laid aside, and our efforts given to this work.”

It was thought that the week following the week of prayer, or just about Christmas time, would be an opportune

season to place “Ministry of Healing” in the hands of the people. Many would purchase the book as a holiday gift for their friends. This nicely follows the work we have been doing with the Signs. There must be quite a number of copies of “Ministry of Healing” in the hands of our brethren at the present time unsold. Our effort should be to see that all these books are placed in the hands of the people, and the money sent in to the tract societies. Plans should also be laid to secure additional copies of the book, that this week may be one of success in placing it before the people.

We need not repeat what has been said upon the importance of this work. Every one who has read the book knows something of its value. Spurious fads of healing are presented, often called “divine healing.” In every large railway depot one can find Christian Science literature scattered in all parts of it. Even upon the train, and every place one goes, he comes in contact with this literature. If those who have no gospel of hope to present better than the denial of the existence of sin, of disease, of death, of Christ’s suffering, are energetic and enthusiastic enough to circulate the vast amount of literature which Christian Scientists place before the people, should not Seventh-day Adventists, with the treasure of divine truth presented in a most pleasing and helpful manner, found in “Ministry of Healing,” seek much more to place it in the hands of the people who are exposed to this destructive deception of Christian Science? This is the opportunity to do what we can to save our fellow men from this awful delusion.

Shall we not as church officers, as members, and as conference laborers arise as one man, and put forth vigorous effort at the time appointed to place “Ministry of Healing” in the homes of the people?

The week of prayer is a splendid time of preparation for those who go out with consecrated hands and hearts in the sale of this splendid book. Let every one do his best to circulate this book.

R. A. UNDERWOOD.