Fifteen-Cent-a-Week Fund by William Talmon Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Aug 1, 1912

Fifteen-Cent-a-Week Fund

By William Talmon Knox

THE careful attention of the readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD is called to the accompanying statement of receipts of the mission funds by the General Conference treasury. This report is of special interest, as it covers the first six months of the year, and shows the actual standing of each conference in relation to the Fifteen-cent-a-week Fund.

The average amount required from each member for the six months is $3.90, which would have realized for the Mission Board $243,441.90 had all paid in on this average, an amount none too large to meet the expanding work of the message. The report shows that of the twelve union conferences of America, two, the Western Canadian Union and the North Pacific Union, have raised their full proportion; that of the seventy-one local conferences in America, ten have paid $5,714.70 in excess of their full proportion, while the remaining sixty-one conferences show a deficit of $93,548.21. We are glad for the record of the ten local and two union conferences, as it shows what can be accomplished. We regret the showing of so many conferences that contribute to this heavy deficit. With the encouraging reports coming from all parts of the country, and prospects of good crops and corresponding good times; with the many blessings sent to us from our Heavenly Father, should we not at once change this showing? The work laid upon us necessitates this. There is really no choice for us in the matter.

The record of a large number of the conferences, as shown in this report, is such as to demand the earnest and immediate attention of not only the conference presidents and every conference laborer and church elder, but of the entire membership of the denomination.

W. T. Knox.