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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 16.

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OUR SCHOOL.

By James White

The Battle Creek College is in a prosperous condition considering the times. We are expecting a large increase of students at the winter term. There are many applications from young men, who have the ministry in view, for charity from our school. But this is impossible at present, while a debt of more than $10,000 is on the College. We appeal to the several State Conferences where these young men live. We exhort the Presidents of these Conferences to take this matter in hand at once. We say to these young men, Make your appeals to the Executive Committee of your Conference, and not to the board of our embarrassed school.
A fearful responsibility is taken by our wealthy men, who will let a debt rest upon our College, and let it continue in embarrassment so that it cannot give that assistance that some worthy young men need. God in his providence is opening the vast field before us. Calls are coming in for laborers, one-tenth of which cannot be filled. And yet these wealthy men will hold on to their wealth in the face of the most urgent calls from the Spirit and providence of God.
Our soul is stirred to the depths. And we here pledge $100 to every $900 from all our people to raise the debt upon our school, and to create a charity fund for the benefit of worthy students who need help. We offer this in addition to the $2,000 in stock we already have in the Seventh-day Adventist Educational Society. God in his providence is testing these men who have more than a competency, and the risks they are taking are greater than they can afford to take. Now let those among us who have means which they can give to the cause without embarrassment ponder this matter well, and then act in the fear of God. As all our good people shall appropriate $18,000, more or less, to our College, it will be the writer’s pleasure to take another $2,000 in stock in our good school, or more or less, in proportion to the amount all others may raise. May God bless our effort to provoke others to love and good works. J. W.