Washington, D. C by J. S. Washburn

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Aug 4, 1904

Washington, D. C.

By J. S. Washburn

A most encouraging list of donations has been received during the past week. The amount given to the $100,000 fund has now reached the sum of $24,248.61. Thus we were, when the list was compiled, within $751.39 of reaching one quarter of the amount to be raised. A wonderful spirit of sacrifice and of devotion to this great work is being manifested by our dear brethren and sisters. Many of them are making great sacrifices.

The need of help for the work in Australia has been strongly emphasized from time to time. The following letter from the president of the Australian Union Conference surely makes strikingly manifest the fact that the Spirit of God, which is the spirit of sacrifice, is swaying the hearts of all our dear brethren in this mighty movement to establish the greatest work on earth at the capital of the nation which leads the world:—

Of late I have been thinking of your work in Washington, and it has been impressed upon me that, although we need money so badly in this field, and have had to call upon the brethren in the States to help us, yet I want some part in establishing the new headquarters at Washington; and although the amount will be small, yet I feel that in this way, if in no other, I can speak and show that my sympathies are with the movement. Hence I am sending you an order in this mail for twenty pounds, which you may put down as my donation toward the work. I wish it were ten times the amount, or even a hundred times, for that matter; but as this can not be, I trust that the Lord will bless the small amount, and make it the means of influencing others to assist in the good work.

A brother who had already made a donation of one thousand dollars, and sends a second donation of the same amount, writes, “Now I double my original subscription. I say, Let the work in Washington proceed, though we should have to double again. Yours to finish the work and go home.”

Do not these letters constitute a mighty appeal to every one who has means to come forward at once to close up this work within the next few days? All desire a part in this great work, but we are certain that it will not be very long before the word must be sent out that the whole amount has been raised. Those who would have a part in this great work of which the Lord has spoken so positively and directly, must act very soon.

J. S. WASHBURN.