Our Jubilee by J. S. Washburn

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 22, 1905

Our Jubilee

By J. S. Washburn

WE are thankful to send out to the loyal friends of our work in Washington the good news that the Washington fund has passed the one-hundred-thousand-dollar mark. When it was first voted at the General Conference Council in October, 1903, that one hundred thousand dollars should be raised that a sanitarium, training-school, and General Conference office should be built in Washington, D. C., it seemed that a great task had been set before our people, but the response has been most remarkable. It exceeds anything in the history of this people. While the treasurer could not state, on May 30, the closing day of the General Conference, that the one hundred thousand dollars was actually in hand, yet, with what was on the way at that time and in the hands of tract society and conference treasurers, we have no question whatever that the one hundred thousand dollars in reality had been supplied by our people by the close of the conference, and the hope so often expressed that the amount might be raised by that time was actually realized. We can not suitably express in words our thanks to God, and to the givers of large and small donations for their liberal and prompt response to this appeal. Surely the blessing of Him who loves the cheerful giver will be realized by every one. Our published list this week is $99,320.39, but the treasurer states that donations in hand which have not been listed brought the total amount on June 15 to $103,054.20. We believe that the overflow on the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund will soon provide the fifteen thousand dollars needed immediately by the Review and Herald for the purpose of erecting their publishing office in Takoma Park. Truly God is leading in this work, and his people are joyfully following him.

J. S. WASHBURN.