NOTICE by Stephen N. Haskell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 6, 1879

NOTICE

By Stephen N. Haskell

MANY of our brethren, and sometimes Conferences and tract society officers, do not realize the amount of money that will lie idle by withholding small sums that might be paid on pledges, and by allowing small sums to lie in the various treasuries.

In many leading enterprises like the Dime Tabernacle and the foreign missions, and in carrying out the plans of the General Conference, where means are required faster than they are received from the brethren, it has become necessary for the Publishing Association to advance money. Besides this, it is necessary for the Association to carry a large stock of books to meet the constant demands of our tract societies and others; and the providence of God is continually opening before us new fields of labor which we cannot enter properly without the immediate use of means which our brethren have pledged and are making arrangements to pay. All these things make the necessity greater and the duty plainer that those who have money should loan what they can to the Association without interest.

We are dependent on the friends of the cause, and we ask their help in the following manner:

Let all indebtedness to the Association be immediately paid as far as possible.
Let our Conferences and brethren that have money on hand that they have no immediate use for, deposit it at the Office.
Let wealthy brethren loan large sums, secured by the Association's notes.

This will help the cause in all its branches. But in no case should this take the place of donations to important and worthy enterprises.

S. N. HASKELL.