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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 13.

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One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By J. T. Thompson

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

What a Worldly Man Says

Concerning the Removal of Our Denominational Headquarters to Washington, D. C.

I THOUGHT it would be encouraging to our people who are trying to raise the $150,000 fund, a part of which is to assist in establishing our denominational headquarters in Washington, D. C., to know how men, not of our faith, look at this move.
Recently I was canvassing in the city of Chamberlin, S. D. I visited the Indian school located at this place, and while there met the superintendent of the school. This gentleman is also government inspector of Indian schools.
During our conversation he asked what my work was. Upon being told, he asked me what organization, or society, I was connected with. When informed that I was a Seventh-day Adventist, he said: “Your people have their headquarters at Battle Creek, have they not?” I answered, “No, not now.” At this he expressed some surprise, and inquired where we were located. When told that our headquarters had been moved to Washington, D. C., he said: “I knew that you were doing some work there, but did not know to what extent. What have you there?”
On being informed that the General Conference office, the Review and Herald Publishing Association, the Training College, and a sanitarium in process of construction, were located there, he said with deep earnestness, “That is the wisest move you people ever made. You have now established yourselves at the center of influence for the nation—in fact for the whole world. You have placed your work where it will be recognized as it would be in no other place.”
Men not of our faith clearly see the truth of the messages the Lord has been sending to us for some time. Ought not we, then, who have received this counsel from the Lord, to put forth most earnest efforts to speedily raise the amounts required for the work begun there and in other places? May the Lord bless the efforts put forth. J. T. THOMPSON.
Elk Point, S. D.