Ingathering Notes by F. W. Paap

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1914

Ingathering Notes

By F. W. Paap

WE wish we could tell you how greatly we appreciated the first word from the field in connection with our great Harvest Ingathering campaign. It is certain that if this is a criterion of what we are going to reap from this great harvest season, the results will be far ahead of our calculations. Sister Jacobsen, of Minnesota, writes:—

"Yours received in due time, and I am intensely interested in what you say. I have been greatly blessed in the work. I started out with eighteen of the Ingathering Reviews, and have only two left. I set my goal at $25. I have reached that amount, and have raised the goal to $30. If the weather continues good, I hope to reach that. I am in my seventy-fourth year, and not very strong. I have ordered fifteen more papers. I am doing all I can to get the members of our little church to work. I believe most of them are at work now. I sincerely hope we shall be able to raise the $5 a member. We are surely living in solemn times. It is time that every Seventh-day Adventist was awake to the situation and taking hold of the work as never before. It is the Lord's work, and he will give success to every one who goes to work in earnest, trusting in him."

Brother J. L. Turner, of Mississippi, writes:—

"Yours of September 25 is before our church, only adding fuel to the fire already burning in the heart of our church here. We are responding to the great call made by you and others for the help of our missionary workers throughout the world in this time of distress. We began the work of soliciting, according to order, on the fifth instant. For our little band of workers, twenty in number, we set the goal at $100, or $5 a member. . . . We have worked only three days, and some report their $5 already. Yes, with the Review and Herald in our hands, prayers in our hearts, and the war cry upon our lips, we think to reach the goal."

We surely have reached the time when God is going before his people. Courage in the Lord should be our battle cry. From time to time we shall pass along items of special interest. Are you at the battle front? Have you reached the goal of at least $5 a member? Now is the time to work, and God will surely bless our united efforts.

F. W. PAAP.