p. 7 | The True Ring

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 17, 1907

The True Ring

THE following letter breathes the spirit of true consecration and sacrifice. We pray that this spirit may lay hold upon those who are able to give one hundred times as much as this brother in the South. This spirit, received by all our people, would close up the work of raising the $150,000 fund in a day. Before the end comes and the work closes, all those who go through the fiery trials into the kingdom of God will have this spirit:—

MY DEAR BROTHER: Your favor of the nineteenth came yesterday; and, although I do not open my business mail on the Sabbath, when I saw one letter was from you, I ventured to open it, assured that it was about our Father's business. It contained book No. 101 for the $150,000 fund.

I took it with me to the last meeting of the week of prayer. After the annual offering was taken, which amounted to $22.25, I presented the matter of the fund. I placed ten dollars as a pledge after my name, not knowing where the money would come from. But I have learned since coming to this Southland to lean hard upon the promise, “My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory.” What was my surprise and thankfulness to find in the evening mail an order for just the amount I had pledged!

The amount paid in and pledged is now over thirty dollars for this fund, and I expect more will be given. One of the most touching sights I have seen recently was that of a mother who is struggling hard to meet necessities, encouraging her little girl to place her name to the pledge beneath her own, then taking the hand of her youngest child, and inscribing his name with the pledge of a gift to his Master.

J. S. WASHBURN.