p. 7 | Nearly Finished by J. S. WASHBURN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 26, 1907

Nearly Finished

By J. S. WASHBURN

THERE has been paid in cash on the $150,000 fund in the Southern Union Conference up to the present date, December 13, the sum of $6,122.81. The General Conference requested that the sum of $6,000 be raised by the Southern Union Conference as its reasonable part of the fund. We feel thankful to God, and very grateful to our brethren, that we have been able to reach and pass that mark. There are, however, a large number of pledges that have been made in the South on this fund that have not been paid. We shall certainly not stop to sing the song of jubilee at the present time, but shall continue right along in the work of helping to raise the remainder of the $150,000 fund, and then join in the grateful chorus when the whole amount is raised, and there is a large overflow added to this, the greatest fund ever raised by Seventh-day Adventists. We are certain there is a large amount of money on the road, but it goes so slowly through the “regular channels” that we should all work until everything is in, in every union conference, at least the amount suggested by the General Conference. In the language of the sailor, let us “call all hands up on deck,” and with an earnest, sharp, united effort, close up this fund immediately. The recent financial crisis demonstrates that earthly institutions are not a safe place to deposit our funds. This truth, this cause, will survive when the world goes down in wreck and ruin. This is the only place of safety for our lives and for our money.

We have hoped to see the whole amount actually on the list by Jan. 1, 1908, but if it is not there before that time, we feel certain that it will be but a few days until the many streams that are flowing toward the General Conference Treasury will have filled the $150,000 fund to the brim, and then to overflowing. J. S. WASHBURN.