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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 8, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 27.

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A Good Example

By S. H. Lane

THERE are many in all parts of the country taking a deep interest in the Missionary Acre Fund. Many parents are educating their children to farm and garden for the Lord. When this is done, the children not only receive a practical education in that all-essential art of “how to make a living,”—for the want of such knowledge the world is cursed with privation and want,—but they also have their minds drawn heavenward by their endeavor to aid the cause of the Lord with the means secured by their labor, instead of spending it for their own selfish gratification, or hoarding it up. Thus every act in this good work leads to the development of that noble Christian grace, benevolence, instead of that soul-destroying sin, selfishness.
The writer is working in the interest of the Missionary Acre Fund, and received the following from one family: the father, two acres of wheat; the mother, one row of beets; Rhoda, one row of onions and a setting of eggs; Hazel, one row of onions and a setting of eggs; Orpha, one row of onions; Ruth, twenty-five tomato plants; and Mark, tomato plants, the rows being several rods long. Another family: the father, one acre of flax; the mother, eggs for a specified time; Linda, tomato plants; Bernice, five tomato plants; and Hattie, two rows of sweet corn. And still another: the father, one acre of flax; Minnie, $1; Bertha, plant of cabbage; Johnny, product of a bushel of potatoes.
Should every Seventh-day Adventist farmer's family follow the noble example of those mentioned above, a great blessing would be bestowed upon all concerned; the children would gain a practical education, which would be beneficial to them during their sojourn in this world, and the cause of God would be advanced by the thousands of dollars which would flow into its treasury. Parents, are you aiding the cause and teaching the children to do the same? or are you giving them dimes and dollars to fritter away in some transient toy, or to engage in some foolish, soul-destroying sport or game of chance? The children will either be saved or lost; which will it be? The safest thing to do is to interest them in the Lord's work.
Send all pledges for the Missionary Acre Fund to P. T. Magan, Berrien Springs, Mich., and all money to H. M. Mitchell, Battle Creek, Mich., stating that it is for the Missionary Acre Fund.
S. H. LANE.