What Will It Mean When the Calls for Money Cease? by Mary C. McReynolds

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1916

What Will It Mean When the Calls for Money Cease?

By Mary C. McReynolds

SOMETIMES we hear the remark, “I wish they would stop this calling for money. That is all one hears. I shall be glad when I never hear it again.”

Very little do we realize what it will mean when these calls for money cease to come. None of us will really be glad when we never hear them again. It will be a most solemn time.

From the book “The Great Second Advent Movement,” page 168, we quote the following regarding the experience of some under the first message:—

Means Offered Too Late

“There were men who held on to their means, struggling all the while under the conviction that they should use it to advance the work, until it was too late to invest it. Such came to those engaged in printing the message, urging them with tears to accept their money, but the reply was, ‘You are too late! We have paid for all the printing matter we can possibly circulate before the end. We have hired several power presses to run night and day; we do not want any more money.’ An eyewitness testified to me that he saw men lay thousands of dollars on the desk before the publisher of the Voice of Truth, and in anguish of spirit beg of him to take it and use it. The

reply was, ‘You are too late! We don’t want your money now! We can’t use it!’ Then they asked, ‘Cannot it be given to the poor?’ The answer was the same, ‘We have made provision for the immediate wants of all such that we can reach.’ In distress of mind the men took away their money, declaring that the frown of God was upon them for their lack of faith, and for the covetousness which had led them to withhold means from the cause of God when it was needed and would have been gladly used.”

When the calls for money cease to come, the work will be done. The last general camp meeting will have been held, the last missionary will have gone to the foreign fields, the last soul on earth will have settled his destiny, the heavenly accounts will have been made up, and Jesus will have left his position as Mediator, and have stepped out from between the just wrath of God and sinful men. A solemn time this, one for which very, very few are prepared.

Let us, instead, rejoice that God gives us power to earn money, and the privilege of helping in this cause. Let us rejoice that probation has not closed, that sinners may still be saved, that there is work for our missionaries, and an opportunity for all of us to “redeem the time” before it shall be forever too late to give of our means to that work which is the center of interest in heaven and the only hope in the world for those who are still unsaved.

Let us be thankful for the large number of missionaries who are sailing this fall to the foreign fields. Let us give earnest prayer and attention to the general call for means to perfect the medical school at Loma Linda, so that where we now have one medical missionary in foreign fields, we may have hundreds. In the name of him who has bidden us, “let us rise up and build” the memorial hospital, so that our one medical school may stand ready to do the work the Lord requires of it at this time.

Remember the offering for the Ellen G. White Memorial Hospital, Sabbath, Oct. 14, 1916.

Mrs. MARY C. McREYNOLDS, Asst. Sec. Women’s Committee.