p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 13. (3/31/1904)

Earlier text: Donations for the Memorial Church, Washington, D. C

Press Fund for Porto Rico

FRIENDS in various parts have sent in contributions to a press fund for Porto Rico. Now believers in the New York Conference, where Brother B. E. Connerly and wife formerly labored, have sent the General Conference two hundred dollars on this fund. The sum total received on this account has made it possible to order forward a good printing outfit for the publishing of the little Spanish monthly magazine, El Centinela de la Verdad (Sentinel of Truth), which is evidently doing much good in that island field.

Our Weekly Offering

By W. T. Bland

EVERY one who has adopted the plan of contributing ten cents a week for the support of the work in foreign fields is actually engaged in foreign mission work. While he may not be in a foreign land himself, yet his very efforts go to support those who have sacrificed the comforts of home and of friends to carry the message to the various parts of the world. Those who contribute to the support of this work are naturally interested in it; it is a part of their own work, and they follow it with their prayers as well as with their means.

We have now reached the end of the first quarter of the year 1904. Thirteen weeks have passed. There are belonging to the Seventh-day Adventist Church 75,000 persons. If each member has faithfully carried out this ten-cent-a-week plan, and has handed, or will hand at once, $1.30 to the church treasurer, or will send it to the nearest office, there will be $97,500 raised for foreign missions by this one plan alone.

Are these figures not of enough interest, and is this work not sufficiently important, to cause every one to decide to have a part in it?

All who are in doubt where to send their offerings should send directly to the treasurer of the General Conference, 222 North Capitol St., Washington, D. C.

W. T. BLAND.

A United Work

By W. C. White

It has been proposed that in the erection of buildings and the opening of sanitarium and school work at Takoma Park, arrangements be made for the sanitarium to give a large amount of work to the school, and for the school to use its facilities as far as consistent for the forwarding of the interests of the sanitarium.

The first building to be erected on our forty-seven acre tract will probably be a schoolhouse built to accommodate about thirty students, then, close by a dining-hall, to seat about one hundred persons. Over the dining-room, the space which later on will serve as work-rooms for the lady students, can be used at first as a meeting hall for the church, and schoolroom for evening classes.

With these two buildings the school can open up a boarding-house for workmen, and an evening school. Tents can be used during the summer by many workmen, while the sanitarium buildings are being constructed.

In the erection of sanitarium buildings, we shall endeavor at first to put up a two-story building, with basement and attic, which will accommodate a family of about twenty-five patients, but so planned that it can be enlarged to accommodate fifty or more patients if enlargement becomes necessary. In this building must be our parlors, and in wings or annexes, the dining-rooms, bath rooms, and offices.

By using the schoolhouse as a home for sanitarium helpers, it may be possible to open up our sanitarium work with accommodations for a goodly number of patients before the next winter.

It is our hope that the schoolhouse may be the home also of some of the workmen engaged in erecting the General Conference building and the Review and Herald building. An earnest effort will be made to secure experienced and efficient teachers, and to conduct evening classes in such studies as will be most highly valued by the workmen on our various buildings.

W. C. WHITE, Chairman of Washington, D. C., Sanitarium Board.

Baptism and Church Organized at Jaffa

By postal card dated March 1, Elder Conradi reports profitable meetings with workers and believers in Palestine. The preceding Sabbath three new converts were baptized at Jaffa, and a church was organized.