The $150,000 Fund by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

The $150,000 Fund

By I. H. Evans

ENCOURAGING letters are coming from different persons from almost every part of the field, regarding the raising of the $150,000 fund. One brother writes:—

BRETHREN: Our little company at this point (about thirteen in number) has raised thirty dollars on the $150,000 fund, and more is to follow before January 1.

I want to tell you for the encouragement of others how one brother got his donation. He has only one leg, and is quite deaf and very poor. Another brother had on hand three hundred copies of an old date of The Watchman. These he gave him for a start. With these he canvassed the town, and succeeded in selling nearly all (and some books and copies of the special Watchman too), and made a donation of five dollars to this fund.

The president of one of our conferences also writes:—

The work of raising the $150,000 fund is moving forward among the brethren of this conference. I can not tell you the exact amount that has reached our office. One of our ministers writes like this: “With one church the donation was $182, with another it was $35, with another $15.” Another minister writes: “The companies I visited were all small and very poor. Those not having funds at the present time desired to make pledges, and a goodly sum has been pledged. The amounts I will forward a little later.”

The president of one of our Southern conferences writes:—

We are trying to push the work of raising the $150,000 fund in our conference. We have been trying to pay an old tent fund debt, and raise the money to get new tents. There are also some other funds that we must raise. So our people are pretty well drained, and it is not a favorable time to raise this fund. But we are doing our best, and while we shall not start out as briskly as some, we will keep it going until the amount is raised.

And so, from nearly every direction, we are receiving encouraging letters, both from individuals and from conference workers who are pushing with vigor the raising of this fund.

We believe that a fund has never been taken hold of with greater earnestness and vigor by all our people throughout the field than the $150,000 fund. Everywhere the workers seem to be of good courage, and are doing their best to bring this work to a speedy conclusion.

I. H. EVANS.