One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund by J. S. WASHBURN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 22, 1907

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By J. S. WASHBURN

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

It Is a Missionary Fund

THE fact that the Midsummer offering this year is devoted to the $150,000 fund has called attention to that other fact that this fund is a great missionary fund, and that in devoting that which is usually a missionary offering to the $150,000 fund, the brethren of the General Conference are not illogical, nor are they going out of the way.

Institutions in different parts of the United States, Canada, Central and South America, and Europe are to be helped by this fund. There are those who consider that institutions are not vital to our work, and that the only thing that we need to do is to send out our canvassers and our ministers. While it is true that by the foolishness of preaching, God saves many who believe, yet it is true that our institutions, when conducted on gospel plans, on the plans of the everlasting gospel of the third angel's message, are mighty preachers of the gospel.

Our institutions are centers of light. Those who are sick in soul and body come for help. To our schools those who need not only mental enlightenment, but spiritual enlightenment as well, come to be trained. There are many who have come into the truth through our educational and medical institutions, and we trust that all our brethren and sisters everywhere will realize that in building up these institutions on the right lines, and in harmony with our organized work, we are as truly preaching the gospel as when we send out our literature or our living ministers. So let us hasten forward this fund.

"Throw out the life-line across the dark wave." J. S. WASHBURN.