p. 10 | Self-Denial Week by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 21, 1914

Self-Denial Week

By W. T. Knox

At the fall council of the General and North American Division Conferences much consideration was given to relief measures for our training schools and sanitariums. It was decided to continue the plan adopted at the regular session of the General Conference of requesting our brethren in North America to adopt a standard of gifts equal to an average of twenty cents a week a member, from which there should be given to foreign missions an equivalent of fifteen cents a week, which would give to the General Conference $500,000 for its operations of 1914, the remainder, or the equivalent of five cents a week, to be devoted to the relief of our institutions. This should supply $175,000 for the year.

In addition to this, the following measure was adopted:—

That as a means of bringing special help in the campaign for lifting the burden of debt from our institutions, a self-denial week be appointed, and that all conference and institutional workers be asked to dedicate that week's salary to this purpose, in special token of the dedication of our hearts and lives to the work of rolling away the reproach of debt from the cause of God; and that we invite all our people to make that week a week of self-denial for the benefit of our institutions; and further, that the last week in May be the time for this united endeavor and consecration of life and service.

This action was reaffirmed at a meeting of the North American Division Conference held at Loma Linda, March 25-29, with the provision "that the proceeds received from the self-denial week appointed at the fall council be returned to each conference, the same to be applied on institutional relief in the union

conference."

According to this action, the last week of May is set apart as a self-denial week in North America, especially for our conference and institutional workers, they being requested to devote that week's salary to the relief movement, and all our people are invited to make the week one of self-denial for the benefit of our institutions.

The money thus realized in any union conference will be left entirely at the disposal of the union conference for its own institutions, or such relief measure as it may elect. It is hoped that this will afford material assistance to some of our schools or sanitariums that are in need of immediate help. Word received from a number of the union conference officials states that a very hearty co-operation in the plan is already indicated on the part of their associates. W. T. Knox.