The $300,000 Fund by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Sep 5, 1912

The $300,000 Fund

By W. T. Knox

According to action taken by the General Conference Committee in its council at Friedensau, Germany, in 1911, the Treasury Department of the General Conference closes the account of the $300,000 Fund with the accompanying report. The committee very much regret that instead of realizing from this effort the full amount desired, we are obliged to conclude our effort after having received only $178,000. And yet, notwithstanding this disappointment, we should not feel warranted in submitting this, the concluding report of the fund, without stating our great appreciation of the substantial assistance so many of our brethren have rendered the Mission Board and our brethren in foreign fields, in securing for them suitable sanitary homes to enable them to live with some degree of safety in the unfavorable climates in which they are situated, as well as furnishing them some facilities for carrying on their publishing and sanitarium enterprises. Eternity alone will reveal what this has meant to them and to the cause.

The fund is being sent out to the different fields interested as rapidly as possible. We expect that it will all be in the hands of those for whom it was designed before the close of the present year.

The accompanying report gives in detail the results from every local and union conference that has contributed to the fund. While this report closes the account of this large fund, yet the Mission Board will be glad to continue to receive from our brethren any donations for the purpose of securing homes for our brethren in foreign lands. These donations will be applied on the regular mission fund. W. T. Knox.