The Missionary Acre Fund
By I. H. Evans
MANY of our people are well acquainted with the plan of the Missionary Acre Fund. It is the giving of what is produced from an acre, more or less, of land, or the earnings of a certain period of time, to be used for a specific purpose. Heretofore this fund has been used by either the International Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association or the International Medical Missionary Training-school Association. What the latter received was applied in liquidation of the old Battle Creek debt. This property is now deeded to the General Conference Corporation of Washington, D. C., and this corporation is to pay the debts of the International Medical Missionary Training-school Association. These debts that must be paid amount to $43,071.83. The General Conference Committee advised this transfer for the sole purpose of protecting the creditors of the old Seventh-day Adventist Educational Society. Conditions had arisen so that the International Medical Missionary Training-school Association was unable to longer carry the obligations against it, and the General Conference Corporation stepped in to protect the creditors. The General Conference Committee believes that the people will gladly help when they are assured that everything is being done in good faith for the work of God. Each church and each family is invited to help in this fund. Plant an acre this year for God. If you have no land to till, set apart a portion of time, and give to God the earnings of this time. Together we can pay these obligations in a short time, and scarcely feel it. Let each one resolve to do something this coming year. Send all offerings to the General Conference Treasurer, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.