RAISE IT QUICKLY by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 17, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 16.

RAISE IT QUICKLY.

By Editor

The $150,000 Fund.

At the spring council of the General Conference Committee in 1906, it was recommended that $150,000 should be raised for various purposes. At that time it was decided that $100,000 was to go for the work in Washington, D. C., and $50,000 to the South.

Just as the enterprise was being launched, the information was received that fire had consumed the Pacific Press at Mountain View, Cal. Another council was therefore called and the following distribution of the fund was made:

The South . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 50,000 Apportioned as follows: Nashville Sanitarium . . . . $25,000 Huntsville Sanitarium . . . . 5,000 Graysville Sanitarium . . . . 1,500 Atlanta Sanitarium . . . . 3,000 Graysville Academy . . . . 2,000 "The Watchman" . . . . 2,500 To be apportioned by the Southern Union Conf. . . 11,000 Washington Sanitarium . . . . 50,000 Pacific Press Building . . . . 20,000 Review and Herald Building . . . 10,000 British School (near London) . . . 10,000 Williamsdale Academy (Nova Scotia) 2,000 Skodsburg Sanitarium (Denmark) . . 2,000 West Indies (school and publishing work) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000 Chilean Printing-house and School . . 2,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $150,000

It has been mutually agreed that the first $50,000 raised on this fund is to go to the South. The remainder of the fund is to be divided on a pro-rata basis to each of the various enterprises benefited.

The World-wide Work.

All these agencies are educational and mighty helpers in carrying the Gospel message. All are needy and worthy. This $150,000 fund is itself illustrative of the world-wide progress of the third angel's message. The accomplishment of this enterprise will bring strength into all departments of our cause—educational, publishing, medical missionary, and evangelistic. It is a stroke for missions, and will hasten the evangelization of all lands with this message. Even the help given the home enterprises is help for mission fields, as the institutions assisted are to be training centers from which the light must go out to all parts. And the great Southern field is counted in our work as in itself a mission field. The providences of God that press this call upon us are evidences that we are in the days of the finishing of the work.

The raising of the $150,000 fund is a magnificent test of loyalty. If accomplished quickly, it will be a glorious achievement.

Nothing that we have undertaken has a better foundation, (a) In the value and urgency of the enterprises to be assisted; (b) In the unqualified approval and promises of support from the responsible leaders in our cause; (c) In clear, distinct, and urgent appeals from the Spirit of God.