NEBRASKA by B. G. Wilkinson

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1901

NEBRASKA

By B. G. Wilkinson

College View, Neb., Dec. 11, 1900.

Dear Brother Magan: The Relief of the Schools is beginning here just now. Yesterday Nebraska sent in her first one thousand dollars from the books. Brother Sutherland immediately paid off a note for about twenty-two hundred dollars, whose owner called for cash versus longer time with interest. He thinks that Iowa will send in ten thousand dollars before school closes.

I deeply rejoice at the prospect. With the debt paid, we shall have the consuming interest and other means with which to do something in the industrial and other work. Our educational work surely needs divine help.

I have had before me a vision, which I have felt is yet a long way off. But now I hope for better things. I have longed to see our schools so manned that the teachers will be so consecrated, yet so balanced, that they will be unsurpassed in scholarship, without the exclusion of God, and yet deeply present servants of the Lord without monomaniacizing religion, from whose teaching will go forth students who know God for themselves, who are able exponents of present truth, who can relieve the sick and discouraged, and win to salvation the spiritually poor.

Yours sincerely, B. G. Wilkinson.