One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund by J. S. Washburn

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 16, 1907

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By J. S. Washburn

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Do You Agree?

A QUESTION I would like to ask of every one who reads this article is, Do you harmonize with the statement recently made by one of the officers of a leading conference in the United States? While some are saying that the calls are becoming so frequent that the people are becoming discouraged, and look upon the raising of the $150,000 fund as a great burden, we are thankful to see that many are writing somewhat in the vein of this brother. The following is a quotation from his letter to the writer:—

“I trust the $150,000 fund will soon be raised, and another one started for $200,000, when that is off our hands. We know that if a few such amounts are raised, the work will close, and our Saviour will come and bring deliverance to his people; and that is what we are longing for. May the Lord hasten that glad day.”

This has the true ring. This is the right spirit. These calls for large sums of money to build up our denominational institutional work, to set in prominent position and in dark places of the earth the light-houses of saving truth, are a strong indication that the work will soon be finished. Are your knees feeble? Does your courage fail? A short, sharp, mighty conflict,—the last,—and all is over. O let us be faithful in being, in saying, in doing, in giving!

J. S. WASHBURN.