p. 24 | A Call to Invest

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1907

A Call to Invest

Our people are being systematically canvassed through the mail by a mining concern of Colorado, known as the Big Bore Mining, Milling, and Tunnel Company. This company represents itself as being largely under Seventh-day Adventist control, and is using among its literature a reproduction of the letter-head of the North Dakota Conference. Many of our people would naturally draw the inference that this concern was enjoying the patronage and indorsement of the conference named, especially in view of the fact that the appeals for investment are coupled with a portrayal of the needs of the mission fields and the importance of spreading a knowledge of the message in the shortest possible time. The president of the North Dakota Conference informs us that his conference has nothing to do with the undertaking, and he protests against the use of the conference letter-head in promoting the interests of the said company. We therefore warn our people everywhere to give no heed to the invitations of the company to invest in its project the means entrusted to them. The cause of God is needy; but it has never yet to our knowledge been advanced through the process of burying talents in the ground. Many thousands of dollars have been lost to the cause of God because men have seen wonderful openings which were certain to bring in thousands of dollars to be used in the cause. The dollars went into the openings, the openings closed, and the dollars are still there, lost to the cause, and equally lost to the individual who put them there.