p. 13 | Looking Toward the Big Fund

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1911

Looking Toward the Big Fund

HERE is an extract from one of Elder F. H. DeVinney's letters, showing how Japan is looking toward the help that is to come from the $300,000 Fund. These needs are an incentive to push the fund to completion:—

We are very anxious to get the printing plant and school out of the city, where we are not in constant danger of burning out. We pray that we may receive from the big fund enough to buy the land, and get these two little institutions upon a right basis. Just a few days ago, before daybreak, we were routed out of our beds by a fire only about three rods from us, that, but for the merciful care of the Lord, would surely have taken everything we had. If you could see these little narrow streets, the light, flimsy house, and the means of fighting fire, you would not wonder that when we go to sleep, it is to keep one eye open for fear some one's carelessness may burn us out. We have just had in Tokyo, only about two miles from where we now live, a fire as great as that of Chicago, and no doubt as extensive as that of San Francisco.