Illinois, Look Here! by G. W. Colcord

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 23, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 12.

Illinois, Look Here!

By G. W. Colcord

TRACT WORK.

LAST summer, as I was holding meetings in Dist. No. 1, the subject of our Tract Society debt came before us for consideration. A call was made for aid, and help was promptly rendered. One young sister, who works by the week, gave a sum that spurred others to duty. Dist. No. 1, "paid up."

I went to Dist. No. 2, told my story, and Bro. J. H. Bennett, without any hesitation, paid me all his district owed. I had intended to thus pay off our entire State debt at the Review Office, but hindering causes have thwarted my plan. Perhaps it is well that we should not ask each district to pay its proportional part, according to the number of its members. Some districts are poor. Let us favor such. Our debt at the Office is between $200 and $250.

AN OFFER AND REQUEST.

I offer to be one of twenty-five to raise $250 in Illinois to liquidate this debt.

And now I request twenty-four others at their earliest convenience, to send in $10 each to the REVIEW Office, to pay off the Illinois tract debt.

This is not a call to the very poor, but to those who can, and gladly will, give $10. Who will respond?

Have just read the foregoing to Bro. Herald, who joins me in this good work. Who will be the third? With interest we shall read the receipts in the REVIEW. See acknowledgments in this number. G. W. COLCORD.