A Commendable Interest by M. E. KERN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 4, 1916

A Commendable Interest

By M. E. KERN

THE Missionary Volunteers of the North Pacific Union Conference have undertaken to raise money for the purchase of land for the Hankow (China) training school. This was accepted as a North Pacific Union enterprise at the recent session.

The Missionary Volunteer secretary of one of the local conferences, in writing to the young people about the enterprise, said:—

“I wish you could have been present at the meeting of the union conference held recently in College Place. When this matter of goals for our young people was brought up, Elder H. W. Cottrell, president of the Western Oregon Conference, made a motion that since the price of the land needed for the Hankow school came to a little more than the goal set for the young people of the union, a collection be taken right there in the meeting to start this fund. This motion was unanimously carried, and I wish you could have seen the pleasure and enthusiasm with which the delegates and other ministers and workers reached down into their pockets for cash to start our fund. As a result we have $50 to our credit in the union conference treasury.”

Such practical interest on the part of the conference workers will surely inspire the young people to do great things.

M. E. KERN.