The Fund Nearing Completion

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 20, 1908

The Fund Nearing Completion

THE stars on our fund page are beginning to form an interesting constellation. In the Pacific Union three of the four conferences are star conferences; in the Southern Union, six of the ten; in the Northern Union, three of the five; in the Lake Union, four of the eight; and in the Atlantic Union, eight of the thirteen. Of the union conferences two have achieved the star, though not all the individual conferences in them have paid their apportionment. It is good to see the fund nearing its completion. This week it has passed the $130,000 mark. It has not grown as rapidly as it was hoped by those who planned it. To those laboring in the destitute fields where it was to be expended, and to those managing the needy and struggling institutions that were to be helped by it, its consummation may have seemed like that hope, which, long deferred, “maketh the heart sick;” but it has grown constantly, week by week, and soon will be finished. The slowness of the inflow has not increased any one’s riches nor hastened the coming of the kingdom. That God continues to bless in spite of our dalliance does not prove our faithful stewardship. It only proves again his patience, long-suffering, and goodness. How long will he wait on our inactivity?

Many will pay their apportionment this week. If all who have not done so will join those who do so this week, it will finish the fund. It can be done. God is waiting now on individuals for an offering to his cause. Souls are perishing, missionaries are appealing for help. How long?