It Is Being Accomplished
By S. H. Lane
We are glad to state that, through the money coming in on the Acre Mission Fund, the debts on the former Battle Creek College property are being liquidated. During the month of October, nearly three thousand dollars was paid, thus not only decreasing the debts, but reducing the interest, the payment on every thousand dollars lessening our interest obligations to the amount of forty or fifty dollars a year. We would like to see our brethren and sisters everywhere enter into this missionary-acre plan with so much zest and earnestness that we could pay off two or three thousand dollars of debts every month. This can be done, if all will enter into the work with zeal. It is wonderful how the Lord is blessing those who have pledged. A letter received a few days ago from a sister living in Minnesota, reads as follows: “When I was at camp meeting, I pledged one week’s work, and I promised to pay by the first of October. I thank the Lord that he has given me a little to send you. The amount is $7.33.” Last spring, when the writer was at College View, young Brother Otto J. Graf, son of Elder Graf, donated the profits of the best day’s work in canvassing during the season. A few days ago he paid to the Mission Acre Fund the sum of twenty-one dollars. You can see that the sister mentioned above and this brother were surely blessed. The sister did well to make $7.33 in one week; while the Lord abundantly blessed Brother Graf in his work. If every worker will do as these persons have done, it will be only a matter of a few months’ time when the medical college, which is being run free of charge on the part of the Sanitarium, will be paid for; and from now until the blessed Master’s coming, workers can be trained for the carrying of the gospel to the field. So those who donate to the Mission Acre Fund, and those who are educated in the buildings purchased by it, will be sharers in the reward which will follow this effort. A letter inclosing $28.35 is just at hand from the members of the Robinson (French) church of Wisconsin. This amount is made up by donations as follows: Desire Wery, one acre of wheat, $9; Jullienne Wery, eggs laid on Sabbath, $3; Felicien De Pas, $3; Dolphin De Pas, $2; Antoine Wery, one dozen eggs every week till August 1, $1.80; Rebecca De Pas, two rows of potatoes, 50 cts.; Elisha De Pas ½ sitting of duck eggs, 50 cts.; Josie De Pas, eggs laid on Sabbath until November, $3.55; François De Pas, proceeds of three bushels of peas, $5. The writer of this letter says, “May God the Father add his blessing also, and multiply it to his glory.” This letter is given as a sample of others we are receiving, and we trust that the prayer of its writer may be answered. When every church does as this one has done, a grand and glorious work will be accomplished. Have you noticed the list of names which appears in the REVIEW from week to week giving the amount of means donated to the Acre Mission Fund? Have you seen your name on that list?21If you have sent in a donation, your name will appear in due time with scores of others. But if your name is not already on the list, will you not send a donation for the Missionary Acre Fund to H. M. Mitchell, Battle Creek, Mich., stating distinctly what the donation is for? We would like every one to make up his mind not only to donate this year, but also to give something next year, either by making a money donation, or by raising something from the soil, or by working for others, or by canvassing, which will help swell the fund. Let us do something definite, and all help in this work until the property is free from all encumbrances, for the future use of the medical college. Who will say I? Thank you for so many responses. Now for work.