An Opportunity for an Investment
By Editor
In the issue of the REVIEW for May 27 there appeared “An Appeal for the Southern Work,” which was introduced by a brief note from Brother Geo. I. Butler. We desire to call attention again to this matter, and to remind those who are interested in that needy field that there is pressing need of some immediate help. We will quote a few paragraphs from the appeal already mentioned:— We thank the Lord that he has aroused some of the brethren to establish and sustain the publishing house in Nashville. The establishment of this institution is an advance movement, and will accomplish much good. This institution will still need to be sustained by gifts and offerings, just as the publishing houses in Battle Creek and Oakland were sustained when they were first established. . . . Words have come to me from the One highest in authority. My Instructor asked, “In establishing the work in the Southern field, will you do less than you have done in more favorable places,—less than you have done in Michigan and on the Pacific Coast?” I responded, “No, Lord.” Then the word came: “You have no time to lose in establishing the work in the Southern field. Many are saying in their hearts, ‘My Lord delayeth his coming.’” God desires his people to do far more for the establishment of his church, far more for the maintenance of the cause of truth. . . . Nothing so refreshes the spirit as giving gladly and willingly of the blessings God has so freely given us. . . . My brethren, what are you going to do in regard to the Southern field? With earnest effort, you are to strive to establish memorials for God throughout the Southern States. A great work is before us in the South. . . . I am instructed to call upon my brethren in the different conferences of America to take a greater interest in the Southern work than you have taken. . . . The Lord has blessed you with means to help carry forward his work, and he now calls upon you to be faithful in your stewardship by helping advance the work in this long-neglected portion of the vineyard. Let the churches arise as one, and work earnestly, as those who are walking in the full light of truth for these last days. In the name of the Lord, I call upon my brethren5to do something to strengthen the publishing interests, and to help establish other lines of work in the South, and to do it now. . . . Brethren and sisters, now is the time to make haste to do something. Will you now give of your means to advance the work in the South? Surely a call like this would not come just at this time unless the Lord had the means intrusted to his people with which to meet this urgent appeal. It must be that there are those who will read these lines who have money which the Lord wishes them to invest in his work in the South, and that this can be done without working injury to any other interest of his work in other fields. We can only present the call to his people, and leave it with them. We are confident that some will respond, and that they will be blessed in so doing. All donations should be sent to the Southern Publishing Association, 1025 Jefferson St., Nashville, Tenn. Brother Butler is now the president of this association.