Untitled article by M. E. Ellis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 14, 1910

CHART USED BY BRETHREN ELLIS AND WHITE IN THEIR CAMPAIGN

The $300,000 Fund in Nebraska

By M. E. Ellis

THE Nebraska Conference is making a vigorous and well-organized effort to raise its share of the $300,000 Fund this year—its apportionment being $12,080. Three plans are being pushed for the accomplishment of this end: (1) Solicitation of cash, nearly $1,000 having been received; (2) pledges to be paid this fall, over $2,000 having been pledged in this way; (3) through the Foreign Missions Investment Fund.

The last may need a word of explanation. The plan is an old idea in new dress, and this is its fourth year of operation in the Nebraska Conference. Each Sabbath-keeper, old and young, is encouraged to set apart something in the spring for the Master's use, and see how large a sum can be realized from the investment by fall. The investments range all the way from “an hour a day” to a “car-load of baled hay,” or “all the eggs the hens lay on the Sabbath” to “all the produce from several acres of ground.” It is a plan the principal beauty of which is that everybody can have a part in it. At the present writing 1,040 investments have been recorded, and a very conservative estimate of the amount to be realized from them would place the figures no lower than $5,000.

The first week in May was spent by Brother G. W. White and myself at College View in the interest of this fund. Seven meetings were held with the different institutions and companies, culminating in a grand meeting at the tabernacle on Sabbath morning, where 268 investments were made, and over $1,400 was pledged, in about seven minutes, in addition to a large cash offering taken up.

The next Sabbath the plan was presented to the Hastings church, where fifty-eight investments were made, and $169 was pledged. Three other churches in the eastern part of the conference were visited by Brother White and the writer, over one hundred investments being secured and several hundred dollars pledged.

Everywhere we find a hearty response to the effort to give our missionaries better facilities and support, and to do it soon, our rallying motto being, “We can if we will,” which is invariably changed, as the enthusiasm kindles, to “We can, and we will.” God grant it may be so.

M. E. ELLIS, Missionary Secretary.