p. 36 | MONEY by Trustees, S. D. A. Educational Society

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1876

MONEY

By Trustees, S. D. A. Educational Society

More money wanted? Yes. Will not these calls for money ever cease? Never, till the last message of mercy has done its work; and then what there is left will go to the moles and to the bats. Do you want to invest any in that direction? If not, it must be put into service now.

One poor worshiper of mammon was once facetious enough to remark that “all the ‘loud cry’ he had yet heard in this cause was a loud cry for money.” Well, let us thank God that there has been something of a cry in this direction; that there have been occasions to use money where it would tell in the advancement of the work, and bring to the donors, if they loved the truth, the greatest satisfaction in this life, and secure for them “bags which wax not old” in the world to come.

Yes there have been calls for money; and there will be more still, larger and louder and longer. The loud cry of this message never will be accomplished without such a pouring out of treasure as will answer to the direction (Mal. 3: 8-10) which the Lord gives us through the prophet.

Suppose there had been no calls for money, because there were no avenues in which to use it in the cause, this work would years ago have fallen into hopeless stagnation and decay. Every new opening that calls for means, every new demand for money where it can be used to advantage in the dissemination of the truth, is so far an advancement of the cause which should call forth a prompt response from all the stewards of the Lord.

Money is now wanted for the school. This enterprise never gave its friends more ground for hope than now. The present term shows the largest number of students of any term thus far, and there never was so promising a class of young men and women as are now in attendance. Some twoscore or more of those now here, could be, and we doubt not most of them will soon be, efficient laborers in the great harvest field. Special interest has thus far been manifested by those composing the lecture class. The hearts of those engaged in the work are full of courage.

Now what is wanted is means and facilities to make the instruction most efficient in the shortest possible space of time. To do this, philosophical, physiological and chemical apparatus is needed, in those departments. Two thousand dollars are wanted immediately to purchase such apparatus. So urgent is the demand for this, that a portion of it has already been procured, with the confidence that the true friends of the school would sustain this very necessary move.

This money is wanted not from those who, if they give, will feel the lack of it in food or clothing, but from those who have a greater or less sum above all the present calls of the necessities, the comforts, and, in some cases, even the luxuries of this life. And these are to be found in every State, almost in every church. Shall we hear at once from such.

Brethren, do not let these calls for means accumulate on your hands, and so be thrown into great embarrassment in the future. Dispose of them as they come. Enough is due on pledges to meet the present indebtedness of the school. And this should be paid at once. Other needs will look to voluntary contributions. The sum here called for is a moderate one. Please dispose of it at once, by sending in the means, and so be ready for the next. TRUSTEES, S. D. A. Educational Society.