One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund by Wm. Covert.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 27, 1907

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By Wm. Covert.

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

How Long Yet?

How much more time do our people think should be assigned them in which to finish raising the $150,000 fund? If all had made a commendable effort to see this money gathered in when the call was first made, the whole amount might have been raised before January, 1907. The interests that are to be benefited by this money are needing it, and there should be no more delay in the matter.

Since we have a message that must be given to all the world in the shortest possible time, consistency demands that the small task of securing the sum in question for the enterprises previously stated, should be dispatched in the effort that is to be made Sabbath, June 29. It is then that our people are to make their midsummer offerings, and as the General Conference has planned that this offering should all go into the $150,000 fund, it is to be hoped that the offering will be large enough to secure all that is lacking of this fund.

Let many large sums be donated on the day set apart for this offering. A small effort will not accomplish the work. Not only should large sums be given, but all our people should join in the business of gathering in this money. The amount yet due is a greater sum than was ever made up by our denomination in one day. We should therefore make our calculations accordingly. Please to understand that many thousands of dollars are to be placed in the treasury on that day, and that it will require some planning and largeness of heart to insure against a shortage. As we often ask large favors of the Lord, let us cultivate largeness in giving to this, the Lord's cause.

We have many larger enterprises before us than the raising of the $150,000 fund, and as these larger tasks are knocking at our doors, asking that we begin upon them at an early date, let us hasten to get this one finished so we can proceed with the business for which we stand in this world.

As the time given us to do this work is very short, we must make great speed if we get it done. But we can accomplish it if we do our best. Who will try? Wm. Covert.