An Advance Step

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

THE time has come when an advance step must be taken in the work for the colored people in Atlanta. A mission school and chapel building must be erected there in the near future; and at the January council of the Southern Union Conference the Southern Missionary Society was asked to undertake the work of raising seven hundred dollars for this purpose. This we have consented to do, and up to the time of writing these lines, we have received eighty-one dollars on the Atlanta building fund.

Nearly five years ago we, as a people, were called upon through the spirit of prophecy to provide “memorials for God throughout the Southern States,” in the way of modest school and church buildings. Only a little of this work has yet been done. Is it not high time that we were up and doing?

The need of a building in Atlanta, such as is contemplated, is imperative. But little can be accomplished without a building. The sum we are asked to raise is small. Let us, then, do our work quickly.

The proposed lot and building will cost more than seven hundred dollars, but the few colored believers in Atlanta have undertaken to raise several hundred dollars themselves; and in this effort they have the co-operation of the white believers in Georgia, so that in contributing to this enterprise, friends in the North may know that they are only lending a helping hand to those who are doing what they can to help themselves.

Donations for the Atlanta building should be labeled, “For the Atlanta Building Fund,” and should be sent to the Southern Missionary Society, North Station, Nashville, Tenn.

SOUTHERN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.