THE CAUSE IN WASHINGTON.
By Editor
IN sending out the appeal for funds to firmly establish our work in Washington, D. C., Brother J. S. Washburn, financial agent, gives us some interesting facts. One fact is that the building now used as General Conference headquarters, 222 North Capitol Street, was once the home of George Washington, the defender of liberty. His country home was Mount Vernon, on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, but his home while in the city was in the building now devoted to the proclamation of "present truth," as Brother Washburn puts it, "a liberty greater even than that for which George Washington fought." Another fact, one that ought to stir every lover of religious liberty in both heart and purse, is that "across the Capitol and Library grounds stands the building used as headquarters by the International Reform Bureau, the association formed to unite church and state, to secure religious legislation in this country, and ultimately to bind the consciences of all men in a despotism that shall be terminated only by the ruin of the world and the setting up of the kingdom. Does not this situation appeal to every reader of this paper?" As stated in last week's SIGNS, $100,000 is needed immediately to start the work on the proposed General Conference building, the sanitarium, and the training-school for Christian workers. Do not suppose, because the sum seems so small for three such enterprises, that you will not need to help. The urgent feature is, that it is needed at once. Send donations to W. T. Bland, assistant treasurer of the General Conference, 222 North Capitol Street, Washington, D. C.; or, if more convenient, to the office of this paper.