One Way to Help by I. H. EVANS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Oct 5, 1905

One Way to Help

By I. H. EVANS

The year 1905 will go down in history as one of the most prosperous years in our national life. The field has yielded a most abundant harvest, for which there is a ready market at a good price. The wheels of industry in nearly every shop in our land have run beyond their intended capacity, while the laborer has been in such constant demand that he scarcely knew to whom to sell his labor. In many sections the deposits in the banks already exceed all previous records, while storehouses and granaries are filled to bursting with commodities yet to be moved. Indeed, public facilities in transportation and in purchasing power are entirely inadequate for handling the enormous product of field and shop.

Prosperity abounds on every hand. No doubt many of our own people are asking, at this season, “What shall we do with our means? Where shall we invest our surplus funds?” Let us answer the query by asking the question, “Why not invest your surplus means in some branch of God’s cause?” If you have a few hundred dollars that you do not need for a time, why not deposit it without interest with the General Conference, subject to your call? If all who have money not in use would do this, the General Conference could pay off its interest-bearing notes, and thus save a large sum each year to the denomination. The deposits would be held subject to the call of the depositors, and yet by continually receiving deposits, the General Conference could carry a good surplus while using a portion to liquidate its many obligations.

The Review and Herald Publishing Association can also use several thousand dollars to good advantage at the present time. Already it has assumed the payment of the old debts of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association, of Battle Creek, Mich., to say nothing of its heavy expenditures required in the construction of its new quarters in Takoma Park, D. C. As this corporation has received only a small portion of the fifteen thousand dollar overflow of the One Hundred Thousand Dollar Fund, arranged for at the last General Conference, it is compelled to secure temporary loans, until it can sell some of its real estate in Battle Creek, Mich.

Doubtless there are many who read these words who have money they would be willing to loan to the General Conference or to the Review and Herald Association, and thus help on the work in God’s cause. We invite all such persons to write at once, addressing either the Review and Herald, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C., or the General Conference, Takoma Park, D. C.

I. H. EVANS, Treasurer.