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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 20, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 51.

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The Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollar Fund

By J. S. Washburn

For Special Work at Home and Abroad

A New Thing

THERE is surely a sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees. From the indications, our leading brethren have taken hold of the raising of this $150,000 fund with a greater enthusiasm than has been seen in any previous enterprise of a financial nature. It would be a new thing indeed in the history of our work if the $150,000 could be raised within a few days, instead of taking several months, as when previous appeals have been sent out for special gifts to the Lord’s great work in the earth. Surely before the end such experiences will become common. That which is needed will be done at once.
ANOTHER VIEW OF TWO OF OUR INSTITUTIONS AT WASHINGTON
ANOTHER VIEW OF TWO OF OUR INSTITUTIONS AT WASHINGTON
Dear brother, dear sister, how much do you expect to leave behind you to be burned in the fires of God’s judgment when you are taken up in the great white cloud to the Father’s house of many mansions? Do you really believe that, with the awful cry for help and light and life ringing in our ears from among those who are dying in darkness, we shall be among those who will be taken to live, in the heavenly mansions, if we leave on earth, to be consumed by the fires which destroy everything that is marked and scarred by sin, money or property, which, if put to a right use, would have saved souls, and hastened the coming of the Lord? “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Will not all your treasure be transferred to the heavenly mansion and to the restored garden of Eden, where you shall sit under your own vine and fig-tree? Has not the time come for those to sell and give who have more than is actually needed for a few days’ sojourn on the earth.
The universal prosperity which is shared by our people must be, partially at least, for the purpose of providing those who believe in the message with funds to push the Lord’s last great appeal to a quick and glorious victory. “A new thing” will the Lord do in the earth. Is it not time for his people to do a new thing in raising this fund in one hundredth part of the time consumed in any previous enterprise of like nature?
J. S. WASHBURN.