Missions Campaign in and Around Washington, D. C.
NEXT to communion with the Master in prayer and in the study of his Word, there is nothing in Christian experience which affords so great an inspiration as personal missionary work. In this movement, with its varied lines of operation, we deal much with the material and mechanical. We view things too frequently from the commercial standpoint. It is therefore a blessing to our offices and institutions occasionally to lay aside their regular routine and permit their workers to go out into the harvest field and put forth personal labor in behalf of souls in need of help. In such labor there are great blessings both to those who give and to those who receive. This blessing came to our institutional workers in Takoma Park last week, as they cooperated with our brethren and sisters generally throughout the field in their efforts to secure offerings for our mission work in the circulation of the Harvest Ingathering REVIEW. Our brethren and sisters in and around Washington entered more heartily into this campaign than ever before. The entire day, October 12, was devoted by the teachers and students of the Washington Missionary College to this work. The patronage of the Washington Sanitarium was such that it was unable to permit its entire force of workers to go out the same day, but arrangements were made for all the helpers to devote some time during the week to campaign work. Wednesday, October 14, the offices of the General Conference and the Review and Herald publishing plant were closed, and the entire force of workers, including General Conference officials, and the managers and editors of the Review and Herald, and the employees generally, devoted the day to work in the city of Washington. It was a good season to all. We cannot at this time report the amount of funds collected for missions, but many have spoken of the great blessings which they received in this experience. At the chapel service Tuesday morning, some of the students told with deep feeling how God had blessed their efforts, and of the opportunities he had afforded them to speak words of cheer and encouragement to some they found in need of spiritual help. A number in the institutions, not content with the blessings of one day, are determined to prosecute the work further, and follow up the interest which they have awakened.