By reference to receipts in the Review for Educational Aid Fund we find that fifteen persons donated $471.50 from Oct. 21, 1875, to January 20, 1876. As matters now stand fifteen have taken notice of this important call and have responded in sums ranging as follows: Two persons, $100 each; three, $50; two, $25; four, $10; one, $12.50; one, $15; two, $2 each.
This sum of $471.50 was cheerfully donated, and was virtually placed at the feet of our School Board by the President of the General Conference in his appeal for the money, to be used in helping those young men who are worthy. But we see no reasons why means for our institutions, for the general good of the cause, should not be raised in a systematic manner, similar to our benevolence to support the ministry. When the brethren in all the States come up to the plan adopted by our people generally, then it will be an easy task for each State, and each church, and even for individuals, to ascertain their proportion in any call for ten, twenty-five, or fifty thousand dollars. In all these matters of liberality there should be union, equality, and energetic action.
As the General Conference at its late extra session made an appropriation to assist certain students in their expenses at our College, those who donated to the Educational Aid Fund can appropriate their donations to stock in the College, or as they may deem it duty. Our school is for the benefit of the cause at large, and appropriations for our General Conference are more equitable, than for a few individuals to donate beyond their means.