p. 5 | What One Conference Has Planned by R. T. Dowsett

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 22, 1906

What One Conference Has Planned

By R. T. Dowsett

WHILE the Wisconsin Conference laborers and other brethren and sisters were in council at Bethel, October 26-30, a recommendation of great importance was adopted after earnest prayer and careful thought, as follows:—

Whereas, The Lord is calling us to a greater work than ever before, and,—

Whereas, The General Conference Committee, in counsel with the presidents of the conferences, has been led to make a general call for $150,000 to place a large number of institutions outside our borders on vantage-ground, and with a desire to assist in the various fields specified, and believing our people throughout the State will esteem it a privilege to assist in the effort,—

We, therefore, the laborers of the conference, with the lay brethren and sisters in council assembled in Bethel, do hereby request the conference committee to arrange for a general donation throughout Wisconsin in harmony with the following plan:—

That beginning with Thanksgiving day, November 29, each and every Seventh-day Adventist in the State be importuned to make a thank-offering in appreciation for the blessings received from God; that on each succeeding day from November 29 to December 24 each person be asked to add to his thank-offering a daily donation as large as consistent; that on December 24 the full amount thus laid aside be consecrated to the $150,000 fund, and on that day be turned over to the church treasurer, or sent direct to the conference treasurer.

This fund is not to take the place of the annual offering in any sense.

We kindly urge all our people to study carefully the recommendation, and then after earnest prayer not only to adopt the same, but to enter actively into the plan.

The $150,000 means much to the enterprises for which it is intended. The sooner the full amount is raised, the greater will be the blessings, and it is most sincerely hoped by the conference committee that Wisconsin’s portion of this grand offering be forthcoming in this one united effort. Some can deposit their hundreds of dollars in this fund, while others can sacrifice only their dimes. Let every one have a will to do, and God will lead in the amount to be contributed.

R. T. DOWSETT.