One Hundred Dollars Lost by Dudley Marvin Canright

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 14, 1879

One Hundred Dollars Lost.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

YES, so a brother said to me the other day. He had one hundred dollars to spare, which he could loan somewhere for a year. He knew that they needed it at the Review Office, that the Sanitarium needed it, and that the College wanted to hire money; but one of his neighbors wanted it, and he would pay a little higher interest; so he let him have it, although we had advised him to send it to one of our institutions. When the year was up the man failed, and the lender lost principal and interest. With a long sigh he said to me, "Bro. Cauright, I have been very unfortunate; I have lost one hundred dollars." Of course I pitied him; and not so very much, either.

This is only one case. Here is another brother with a long face, who tells me he has lost three hundred dollars. He had a nice place to make a little speculation, and get ten per cent interest; good promises, of course. The time is up, and now he would like to take one hundred dollars for his three hundred, and throw in the interest too. Poor fellow! But why did he not take our advice, and loan this money to one of our institutions?

And here is another man that I know of. He put several hundred dollars into the bank. He did not get so very high interest; but then it was handy, and he did not know about these institutions at Battle Creek, how safe they were. Now the bank has failed and his money is gone. All right, we said, let it go.

Everywhere I travel I find just such cases as this. Not only a half-dozen or a score, but plenty of them. I know of more than fifteen hundred dollars lost in Ohio during the last year in this way.

Now we ask the brethren this question: Who has ever lost a dollar loaned to one of our institutions at Battle Creek? Who has ever failed to receive his money when he wanted it? Not a man. For nearly a quarter of a century, brethren and sisters have been loaning their money here on interest or without interest, and not an individual of them has ever lost a dollar. Their money has always been ready when they wanted it.

Come, brethren and sisters, act reasonably in this matter. When you have a few spare dollars remember that here is the place to put them. If you can loan the money without interest, you should do so, or at a low rate, at least; for it is in the cause of God, in which you should have as deep an interest as others. No person is making a dollar on the income of these institutions. It belongs to you as much as to us. It will be an accommodation to the cause if you can loan your money here, provided you do not ask a high rate of interest; or better still, if you can loan it without any.

D. M. CANRIGHT, in Review.