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subscribers for our periodicals, including our health journal, and to
introduce our books and pamphlets.—
The Publishing Ministry, 368
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Those who feel they cannot afford church papers, do manage
to afford secular papers—There are those who profess to be brethren
who do not take the Review, Signs, Instructor, or Good Health, but
take one or more secular papers. Their children are deeply interested
in reading the fictitious tales and love stories which are found in these
papers, and which their father can afford to pay for, although claiming
that he cannot afford to pay for our periodicals and publications on
present truth.—
The Publishing Ministry, 350
.
Every family should have the Review, even if the church must
provide the subscription to poor families—The Review and Herald
and the Signs of the Times are cheap papers at the full price. The
Review is a valuable paper; it contains matters of great interest to the
church and should be placed in every family of believers. If any are too
poor to take it, the church should, by subscription, raise the amount
of the full price of the paper and supply the destitute families.—
The
Publishing Ministry, 350
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Ingathering
Ingathering follows the example of Nehemiah, who solicited
from non-Israelites able to give—Letters of inquiry have come to
me regarding the advisability of carrying out the Harvest Ingathering
plan. In answer, I would refer all to the example of Nehemiah. When
about to journey to Jerusalem with the hope of restoring the walls
about the stricken city of his fathers, he frankly told King Artaxerxes
of the work he contemplated doing, and requested help to insure the
success of the enterprise. He obtained a letter to the keeper of the
king’s forest in the mountains of Lebanon, directing him to furnish
such timber as would be needed for the wall of Jerusalem, and the
buildings that were to be erected. And the means which he lacked, he
solicited from those who were able to bestow.—
East Michigan Banner,
September 29, 1909
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Ingathering can both help missions and win to the truth those
who give—In the providence of God, those who are bearing the burden
of His work have been endeavoring to put new life into old methods of
labor, and also to invent new plans and new methods of awakening the