The Next General Enterprise by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 12, 1907

The Next General Enterprise

By William Ambrose Spicer

There is special reason this year for not allowing the October collection for the colored work in the South to pass with only a casual response. All through the South this work, after years of devoted effort, is getting to the point where one can plainly see that substantial enlargement is just before it. Now special help is needed to meet the pressing calls to advance in every Southern State.

Then, too, the prominence given the building up of training centers in the South in the raising of the $150,000 fund has diminished the flow of individual donations to the colored work. Now that the large fund has helped to strengthen the colored training-school and sanitarium at Huntsville, so that more satisfactory training work can be done, it is more urgent than ever that a good sum be given in the October offering for the regular evangelistic and local school enterprises being carried forward.

Our colored brethren in the South are working earnestly and loyally. I have met numbers of these laborers at different points, and their devotion to the message and the needs of their people has touched my heart anew. Therefore I venture to send this memorandum on the October offering from the heart of the vast colored belt of the South. The brethren of the Southern Union, and of the Southern Missionary Society, which is operating as a department of the union, are doing their utmost to foster the work among the millions of the colored race. Their resources are meager in view of the large field and the urgency of doing what is to be done without delay. Let us plan for a liberal gift the first Sabbath in October. W. A. S.

Atlanta, Ga.