A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE IN WORKING FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SCHOOLS
Some time ago, as the readers of the REVIEW will remember, we published a letter from Brother and Sister E. E. Coulson, of Archer, Fla. In this letter Brother and Sister Coulson said that they had been praying that the Lord would show them what to do to help the big fund for the relief of the schools. They decided that God wanted them to give a month's earnings to this fund, and they wrote, asking me to choose which month it should be. Brother Coulson is a dentist. I did not know anything about which were good and which were bad months in the dentist business, but I prayed over the matter, and chose the month of November. Later we received the following letter from Brother Coulson, inclosing draft for two hundred dollars for the relief of the schools—the proceeds of a month's work. Here is the letter in full. Are there not other brethren and sisters who will give a month's work for the relief of the schools? ARCHER, FLA., Dec. 16, 1900 DEAR BROTHER: The time has come when I can make returns for the month my wife and I devoted to work for the relief of the schools fund. We are pleased to report that the Lord has been with and prospered us in our effort, not only in enabling us to gather of the material things of this world, but in bestowing spiritual blessings as well. He has given us health and strength, so that we have not missed a day from labor for the object we had in view; and we feel to praise Him for His wonderful goodness in giving us, humble instruments though we be, and unworthy, the privilege to thus work in His cause. We fully realize that the Lord does not need our money,—“the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof,”—but we need Him, and as His stewards, having received talents, though but one, we must be faithful in the use we make of it, and render to Him His own, with the increase, knowing that He is “the giver of every good and perfect gift,” and that in this way He has given us an opportunity to express a little of our appreciation of His great gift to us—His love-gift—the gift of His Son. The proceeds for my dental work for November was one hundred and seventy-five dollars. We add twenty-five dollars as a thank offering: thus you will find inclosed a check for two hundred dollars, one hundred for each of us, as my wife and I are equal partners in all things.