p. 24 | Reaching the Goal by T. E. Bowen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 31, 1914

Reaching the Goal

By T. E. Bowen

This paper bears date of the last day of 1914. Our records close this day for the 1914 Harvest Ingathering campaign. It has been a blessed experience for those who have gone out. And these experiences have continued right up to the last. If every member had only GONE TO WORK, how different would have been the results! The figures show that on December 1, $35,324.67 had been harvested in our Ingathering campaign. December will swell these figures, but how much we do not know. Last year we reached $56,282.99.

Word from Brother Porter tells us that China is now at work with us. The honor roll today (December 24) stands as follows:— Newfoundland, October 14. Maritime, October 22. Quebec, November 11. Ontario, November 26. East. Canadian Union, November 26. Mississippi, November 28. Nevada Mission, December 10. Northern California, December 15. Maine, December 17. Saskatchewan (date not furnished).

A fine list! I wish we could give the interesting experiences. Here is one: Mrs. H. W. Carr tells what the Portland (Maine) church did: “We stretched our faith to get $50; and when that was reached, we kept going up till we had $77.18. You can imagine our joy for the one day’s work. Each name and amount was placed on the blackboard. The church school children and their teacher gathered over eight dollars. They could hardly wait to tell their experiences. Two weeks before, we began to talk of having a final rally day instead of letting our campaign in Maine ravel out.” The other churches must have caught the Portland spirit, for on the seventeenth the telegram came over the wires that Maine was out. T. E. BOWEN.