THERE has been received up to the present time on the Washington building fund $44,367.15. Quite a large number of our people are giving a certain amount regularly, and promise to continue this systematic help until the work is completed. It is encouraging also to note that quite a number of friends who are not Seventh-day Adventists are helping in this work.
Read the following interesting letter. Not one of the eleven who are spoken of as contributing in this letter were Seventh-day Adventists:—
BRADENBAUGH, MD., Sept. 26, 1904.
DEAR BROTHER: I showed and explained my subscription paper to sixteen persons. Eleven of them, whose names appear on the paper, contributed. From the eleven I received $—. This is far beyond my expectations, but there were two little instances connected with it that were very gratifying to me, and I think you will be interested in them. . . . When I called on Mrs. —, she said she had no change, but would put her name down for twenty-five cents. . . . In a few days her husband called at our house and gave me fifty cents, saying that he told his wife twenty-five cents was not enough. A friend put his name down for fifty cents, saying that he would give it to me in a few days. He has been having considerable financial embarrassment, and I thought, under the circumstances, this was really good for him. In a day or two I heard very glowing reports of how his crop of wheat had turned out beyond his expectations. The next morning he came over and slipped a dollar into my hand, saying, “My wheat turned out so well I thought I could afford to give a dollar.” Just as soon as I heard about the wheat, I thought that the Lord was beginning already to bless him for giving me the fifty cents. I know that he had some such thoughts too. I want you to remember him specially at the throne of grace. . . . Mrs. —, one of the subscribers, talks of going to Washington this fall, and says that if she goes to stay over Sabbath, she may go to our church. I am really glad you sent me the paper. . . . Is not God good! Pray for all my list.
This is the opportunity for many to do real missionary work. Who will make an effort at once on this line?
