HOLD THE FORT by James White

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1879

HOLD THE FORT.

By James White

SECOND RESPONSE TO APPEAL FOR BATTLE CREEK AND OAKLAND HOUSES OF WORSHIP.

Brother and Sister Darius and Sarah Reynolds, from Illinois, now sojourning at Austin, Texas, send $40 as a New Year’s present to the churches at Battle Creek and Oakland,—$20 each. They write, Jan. 1, 1879:—

“Having noticed in the REVIEW your urgent appeal, and that of Sr. White, for help to relieve the Oakland church from a heavy debt, and also for more aid for the Tabernacle at Battle Creek, we have concluded to send you a donation of $40, to be equally divided between the two. We do not much favor the plan of building churches and then calling for outside help; but these cases may be exceptions. Certainly it would greatly embarrass the work all along the coast to lose the Oakland church.

“I once gave $100 to help pay for a church bought by the Free Methodists in Chicago. It was purchased for $6,000, and was said to be worth $15,000. An agent was sent to solicit aid from Eastern Conferences, but he failed to get up an interest, or the people felt too poor to help, so the church went back to its former owners. But I believe this will not be the case with us. As long as our people have such stirring appeals for help, and such examples of liberality and consecration as you have given, the work, with the blessing of God, will succeed.”

These dear, aged friends of the truth have done well in commencing the year 1879. We shall consider them good for $10 each at the commencement of each month for each of the two churches, until the debts shall be paid. All remittances for these houses in money orders or drafts should be made payable to James White, and the envelopes should be addressed, Eld. James White, Denison, Texas, Box P. Small sums in bank notes should be sent direct to REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Mich., or to Pacific Press, Oakland, Cal. J. W.