One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1907

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By I. H. Evans

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

Encouraging Omens

If one could but step into our office and read the numerous letters from brethren and sisters from all parts of the world in regard to the $150,000 fund, he could but believe that the Lord is leading in this work.

Oftentimes in a single mail donations will come from as many as six countries in opposite directions throughout the world. From India, from China, from Japan, from Africa, from the islands of the sea, and from almost every field in the wide world, men and women are sending in contributions to the $150,000 fund.

How encouraging it is that the people everywhere are taking hold so heartily in raising this large sum of money!

Compared to the whole, there are but few who are raising their voices in opposition to the securing of this fund. Of course, a few will object; but the great mass of our people everywhere are working and praying for the speedy accomplishment of the raising of this fund.

Hundreds of letters have been received from all parts of the world heartily endorsing the call for the $150,000 fund. Our people express themselves with gratitude that the call has been made, and manifest faith that the money can be raised.

Individuals, conferences, and union conferences all speak with confidence that the object will be accomplished without embarrassment to any one. Many individuals and some conferences have already done nobly in donating to this fund, while other conferences have had other matters in hand which they could not drop, and are only beginning to apply themselves to this work. Let us not forget that in unity lies our strength. God is our leader.

The enterprises to which this large fund has been appropriated are not enterprises which man has devised, but concerning which the Lord has specifically spoken. Therefore, in the planning of these institutions, we feel that we are following the instruction of the Spirit of God, and in the raising of the funds by which the institutions can be established, we are walking in the light which God has given this people.

The calamities and destructive agencies, visited apparently by the hand of God on the cities and nations in these last days, are encouraging omens that we are near the end of human history. Let us press close together in the bonds of one common brotherhood, and consecrate all we have to the prosecution of the third angel's message.

Already more than one fifth of the fund has been raised, and we are sure it will not be a difficult task for us to continue the effort in securing this fund until the last dollar is in the treasury.

Not only should we give, but we should pray also that God will unite us in this great effort, and in the prosecution of every enterprise that he would have established among his people.

I. H. EVANS.