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The Vermont Tent Fund

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Review and Herald Publishing Assn. · Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 1.

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The Vermont Tent Fund

By F. M. Dana

Dear Brethren of the Vermont Conference: In 1902 we made plans for purchasing a new sixty-by-ninety foot tent for our camp-meeting use, also to build a portable tabernacle for general work in the field. At that time we made a call for funds with which to carry out these plans in harmony with your resolutions authorizing your committee to proceed in this work.
The tent was purchased, and as you may not have observed, we have to pay for such things as soon as finished. The tabernacle has been built and used one season, and of course had to be paid for. Again we needed a tent for what we term “tent efforts,” so we procured one from one of our brethren, at a reasonable price, and paid for it.
From these statements you will see that your committee has had demands to meet, and this has caused an outlay beyond the means for such work, so that we have overdrawn on this fund nearly two hundred dollars, and now feel that if we state to you the real situation, you will see the condition, realize the needs, and respond to our urgent call in this direction as soon and as freely as the Spirit of the Lord may impress you.
Some of our brethren have responded in this department of the work nobly, and we are very thankful for it, and praise the Lord for every effort made in the work. There are others who have not made any special donation to this work, and we feel confident that they will be pleased to aid the conference in this work when they know the situation; hence we have presented the facts of the case, and now trust and pray that you will come up to the help of the Lord, and thus relieve us of the overdraft in this fund.
We need some large donations to make up this amount, as there are many of the brethren who are in a position to give but little, yet every penny given heartily is acceptable to the Lord, and we shall be pleased to acknowledge any amount that you may be able to send for this fund. Awaiting your consideration, and praying the blessing of the Lord to rest upon you as you give, I am, in behalf of the conference committee.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
F. M. DANA,
Secretary and Treasurer.