One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund by W. J. Stone

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 28, 1907

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By W. J. Stone

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Do Not Delay

THERE were never greater evidences that we are nearing the consummation of all things and the second coming of Christ, than at the present time. Whichever way the eye turns, unmistakable evidences appear.

Perhaps by taking a glimpse backward we could better comprehend what is before us. When I embraced the truth over thirty years ago, there were only 8,000 Adventists in the world, but in a short time our numbers had increased to 10,000. Ten years later we had doubled in numbers and increased to 20,000; and in the next ten years our records showed that we had doubled again, and there were 40,000 Adventists in the world. Ten years more have elapsed, bringing us down to the present time, and our statistics show that we have again doubled in numbers, and that there are over 90,000 professed Adventists scattered in every quarter of the earth.

At the same ratio of increase, in another decade we shall again double our numbers, and this is not improbable. Then add to this the fact that God will cut the work short in righteousness, and thousands will embrace the truth in a short period of time, and that deeper consecration will come into our ranks, which is already being manifested, and how long will it take to complete the work?

We have been having years of plenty. Many professed Adventists have been adding land to land, and house to house. Thousands of dollars have been accumulated by many, until to-day the people representing the Adventist denomination are worth millions of dollars. There is money enough in the ranks of believers in the third angel's message to complete the work and warn the world, if not another dollar was earned above a living; and if this means was placed upon the altar to be consumed as calls may come, the work would soon be completed.

God is now calling for some of this surplus money that has been laid up in the years of plenty. Many who have means have said, “I expect to place all that I have in the cause of God;” but, brethren, if we expect to do this, how much time is there left for us to do it? Would it not be well to begin now by giving five hundred dollars or a thousand dollars to the $150,000 fund? A score of men in the United States could give a thousand dollars to this fund and never feel it, and be better off for so doing.

Where our treasures are, there will our hearts be also; but I fear that there are many to-day professing to believe that the Lord is soon coming, whose treasures are buried in this world, and whose hearts are also placed upon these treasures. Would it not be a good thing to transfer a few thousand to the cause of God? Would it not have a tendency to draw our affections more fully in that direction? It is true that where our treasures are, there will our hearts be also; and it is just as true that where our hearts are, there will our treasures go. It is one of the greatest evidences that our hearts are in the work when our money is going in that direction.

In less than thirty days every dollar of the $150,000 fund should be raised, that we may give our attention to other important phases of this great work. The third angel's message is soon to triumph, and those who invest their means in it will be more likely to triumph with it. When banks and everything else fail, the message committed to us will outride the storms, and carry those who trust in it fully, safely through the time of trouble. Then let us begin now to live as we never have before, for in a little while the work will be ended, and our means will not be needed. Sad will be the time when the message closes, and the word goes forth that no more money is needed. We fear there will be many at that time who will still have their treasures in this world. This time will surely come. Let us not delay, but quickly complete this $150,000 fund.

W. J. STONE.