Plans Being Suggested by S. H. Lane

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 29, 1902

Plans Being Suggested

By S. H. Lane

We are much pleased to learn through various sources that the Missionary Acre subject is being studied, and plans are being suggested and adopted, which, when carried out, will be successful in purchasing the old Battle Creek College property for the use of the American Medical Missionary College for the purpose of educating and training physicians and nurses for the promulgation of the special truths of these times in all parts of the world.

The following plan has been suggested by Brother Arthur Moon, of Iowa. We are glad to present it to the readers of the REVIEW, as it may aid some to procure means for the purchasing of the property for the medical college, and at the same time be instrumental in spreading the truth in many localities, and thus accomplish a vast amount of good.

Brother Moon says: “Knowing that earnest efforts are being put forth to aid the medical college, and realizing that there are many who, like myself, have no ground to till, or fowls or stock to consecrate to the Lord, I thought it might be a good idea to give you my plan to raise money for this worthy object. I speak of it because I believe you will be able to reach many more than I possibly can. My plan is to sell the Midsummer number of the Good Health, and

turn in the profits for the American Medical Missionary College. Last summer I found it an easy task to dispose of one hundred copies. This year I am planning to sell two hundred. In this plan of mine there is a threefold blessing: first, it will be a great blessing to purchase the college; second, a greater blessing will come to a suffering world in calling their attention to the truths contained in the journal, and the institutions where these truths are taught; third, but not least, is the blessing that will react upon our own souls by this ministry to suffering humanity. My plan is to let the people know that I am selling the journal to help this benevolent work, and I find them willing to purchase and easy to interest in the medical missionary work.”

This is an excellent plan, and we hope some one in every church will take it up. I wish to suggest a similar plan which will be a good one to give many of our children an opportunity to secure means to aid in the purchasing of the old Battle Creek College property for the medical college. It is for them to sell the Life Boat. Will not each church, or one or more persons in the church, subscribe for a club of the Life Boat, and set the children in the church to selling them? The Life Boat is published monthly at 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago. It is nicely illustrated, and can be sold by thousands, at five cents a copy. The journal can be furnished in clubs to one address, as follows: five to twenty-five copies, twenty cents each, per year; twenty-six to fifty copies, fifteen cents each, when used for this purpose. Will not the elder or others in our churches work up the matter of securing a club in each church? When you order a club, address Life Boat, 28 Thirty-third Place, Chicago, Ill. Let the church furnish the journals, and permit the children to sell them, and after paying for the journals, let all the profits be sacredly set apart for the Missionary Acre Fund to aid in the purchase of the property for the medical college.

If we as churches will set all our children to work in spreading the truth, but few of them will leave our ranks. The future work of all should be to save souls. Who will aid in these plans?

S. H. LANE.