Washington D. C by J. S. WASHBURN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1903

Washington D. C.

By J. S. WASHBURN

SINCE February 2, the day of our payment, we have received on the fund for the memorial church $1,850.20, so that all our loans are paid, and we have quite a sum toward making another payment on the $7,900 still due on the church, which is bearing interest at 5½ per cent, or $1.19 per day. By the time this report shall be read, our appeals and subscription papers will have been supplied to every organized conference in the North. These have been sent out, partly direct and partly to the conference secretaries, with the request that the secretary send them to every worker and to every local elder. We have found that where the subscription papers are in use, a systematic work is done, such as can not be done without them. Quite a number who are not members of the church, nor even keeping the Sabbath, have subscribed and paid in money on this memorial church. In Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota a good work has been done. In all these States the subscription papers have been used. We are glad to supply them to all who may wish to use them, sending them directly or through the local officers.

The appeal for the memorial church in Washington, written by Sister White, sets forth the situation so clearly and definitely that I trust all will read it, and that in a few weeks our new church, free from debt, may be re-dedicated to the work of the last message of truth to a lost world. J. S. WASHBURN.