A Daily Offering for Thirty Days by I. H. Evans

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 6, 1906

A Daily Offering for Thirty Days

By I. H. Evans

The $150,000 fund is the largest special fund ever undertaken to be raised by our people. We have raised large sums of money in days gone by, but we have never set ourselves to any task so great as the raising of $150,000.

We undertook to relieve the Christiania Publishing House when it became embarrassed, and we raised in its behalf some sixty-six thousand dollars. When the call came for the $100,000 fund with which to open up the headquarters of our denominational work in Washington, D. C., it was raised so speedily that there were but few whose faith could grasp what their eyes saw, and their ears heard; but the call for $150,000 to be divided among a variety of institutions, sounds like a large sum, and certainly is the largest donation ever called for from our people in behalf of institutional work.

Some may say that it can not be raised; but some said the same concerning other funds which have been raised with comparative ease. Now, if it were for one person to give this entire sum, it would be difficult to find a single individual among our people who could make such a large donation. But there are many believers to-day in the third angel’s message. In the United States our denominational numerical growth has rapidly increased, until now we number nearly 58,000 believers. Thus, while $150,000 would be a very large sum for one person, or even a few persons to raise, yet, when this is divided among 58,000 persons, it becomes a small affair for each individual; and a tiny sum from each, means the large amount raised. Three dollars from each believer in the United States and Canada would insure the whole amount; but many must give more than this small sum, for there are many who can not, and some no doubt who will not, even do so much as this for this undertaking.

It has been planned that beginning with Thanksgiving day, and continuing until Jan. 1, 1907, every Seventh-day Adventist pledge to make a daily offering to this fund. Many can readily give a liberal sum, others can give less, and others still less, until perhaps some can give but a few cents each day; but if everybody will take hold and help, we can raise this fund by the beginning of the new year.

Suppose each church should say, Let us raise ten cents a member each day for thirty days. The $150,000 fund would be raised. Is it not possible for every church of Seventh-day Adventists to plan to raise, on an average, as much as ten cents per capita for thirty days?

If the whole army of people all begin doing the same thing at the same time, great things will be accomplished.

Let us not forget the idea—an offering each day from Thanksgiving day to New-year’s, from every Seventh-day Adventist in America. Make the offering as large as you can, but make it even if it is small. Remember “many a little makes a nickel,” and the daily offerings from sixty thousand persons for thirty days, will make no small offering to the Lord. I. H. EVANS.

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