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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 25, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 12.

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A Special Call

By A. G. DANIELLS

APRIL 3, the first Sabbath in the month, is the time for the annual offering throughout all our churches, for the support of orphans and dependent aged. This offering goes to the conference or union conference treasuries for use in behalf of needy ones who have no provision made for them by a local church. Year by year our brethren have responded on this occasion, and the necessity of a growing fund is felt by every conference: All are responsible in this work of succoring the needy; and it is a blessed responsibility. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,” says Christ, “ye have done it unto me.”
Just now a call has come for special help, which this offering may be made the occasion of answering. The following action taken by the General Conference Committee explains the case:—
“Resolved, That we recommend to the union and local conferences that they make special effort on behalf of the offering for orphans and dependent aged the first Sabbath in April, with the view, if the committees can see their way clear to do so, of appropriating one fourth of the amount received to the building of a home for colored orphans, which the Testimonies have said should be established at Huntsville, Ala., in connection with the school and sanitarium for the colored; and we recommend that in public announcements our people be urged to give liberally, with a view of enabling the conference committees to make this appropriation.”
For some time Sister White has had the burden laid upon her heart to see this orphanage established. Those associated with her on the Pacific Coast have seen in this approaching offering of April 3 an opportunity to call for a special effort this year in order that a portion might be appropriated to the building of this orphanage. The Northern California Conference, they report, has already voted to appropriate one fourth of its offering; and as the appeal has come to the General Conference Committee, this plan is concurred in. If all will respond heartily, we know the conferences will gladly make the appropriation suggested, and will be able to do so without neglecting their own needy. Let us make a generous response to this call on April 3. A. G. DANIELLS.