Earlier text: COLLEGE PLEDGES“THE PENNY YE MEANT TO GI’E.”
There’s a funny tale of a stingy man
Who was none too good, but might have been worse,
Who went to his church on a Sunday night,
And carried along his well-filled purse. When the sexton came with his begging-plate,
The church was but dim with the candles’ light;
The stingy man fumbled all through his purse,
And chose a coin by touch—not sight. It’s an odd thing now that guineas should be
So like unto pennies in shape and size.
“I’ll give a penny,” the stingy man said;
“The poor must not gifts of pennies despise.” The penny fell down with a clatter and ring!
And back in his seat leaned the stingy man.
“The world is so full of the poor,” he thought,
“I can’t help them all—I give what I can.” Ha, ha! how the sexton smiled, to be sure.
To see the gold guinea fall in his plate!
Ha, ha! how the stingy man’s heart was wrung,
Perceiving his blunder, but just too late! “No matter,” he said; “in the Lord’s account
That guinea of gold is set down to me.
They lend to him who give to the poor;
It will not so bad an investment be.” “Na, na, mon,” the chuckling sexton cried out;
“The Lord is nae cheated—he kens thee well;
He knew it was only by accident
That out o’ thy fingers the guinea fell!” “He keeps an account, na doubt, for the puir;
But in that account He’ll set down to thee
Na mair o’ that golden guinea, my mon,
Than the one bare penny ye meant to gi’e!” There’s a comfort, too, in the little tale—
A serious side as well as a joke;
A comfort for all the generous poor,
In the comical words the sexton spoke. A comfort to think that the good Lord knows
How generous we really desire to be,
And will give us credit in his account
For all the pennies we long “to gi’e.” By reference to receipts in the Review for Educational Aid Fund we find that fifteen persons donated $471.50 from Oct. 21, 1875, to January 20, 1876. As matters now stand fifteen have taken notice of this important call and have responded in sums ranging as follows: Two persons, $100 each; three, $50; two, $25; four, $10; one, $12.50; one, $15; two, $2 each. This sum of $471.50 was cheerfully donated, and was virtually placed at the feet of our School Board by the President of the General Conference in his appeal for the money, to be used in helping those young men who are worthy. But we see no reasons why means for our institutions, for the general good of the cause, should not be raised in a systematic manner, similar to our benevolence to support the ministry. When the brethren in all the States come up to the plan adopted by our people generally, then it will be an easy task for each State, and each church, and even for individuals, to ascertain their proportion in any call for ten, twenty-five, or fifty thousand dollars. In all these matters of liberality there should be union, equality, and energetic action. As the General Conference at its late extra session made an appropriation to assist certain students in their expenses at our College, those who donated to the Educational Aid Fund can appropriate their donations to stock in the College, or as they may deem it duty. Our school is for the benefit of the cause at large, and appropriations for our General Conference are more equitable, than for a few individuals to donate beyond their means. We are impressed with the importance of system in raising means for our institutions, and for our missions, as well as to sustain our ministers. And we would here suggest that there should be a surplus in the General Conference treasury to meet the wants of any needy State. We venture the statement that if our people of the several States, whether in churches or scattered, would come up in their figures to the plan adopted, the sum of our s. s. as a people would be three times the present amount. Let this be done, and equality will be established, and these local calls for smaller amounts will cease. Not less than $25,000 should be put into the General Conference treasury annually to be used under the supervision of the Committee, in the support of missionaries abroad and at home, to assist young men to prepare for the ministry, and to meet other wants, in extending the message. This sum can be made up by Conferences donating their surplus means, by scattered brethren putting in their s. s. and by the wealthy casting in of their abundance. We have too many small objects for benevolence before our people. While capital in our College, our Health Institute, and Publishing Houses should doubtless be held in shares of stock, there should be one fund from which to draw. Study Beneficial to Health.
The London Globe editorially presents the following: “True study is an eminently leisurely process, the great condition of success in it being deliberation, and though it always sufficiently interests the student to keep his faculties lively, it seldom excites him to any dangerous degree. Hence I believe that genuine study is much less injurious to health than is often supposed—certainly much less injurious than many things that are scarcely reputed injurious at all. The processes of genuine and well-directed study positively save the brain by their rational and orderly sequences, by the safe advance from step to step. Study of this kind is like a well-built staircase, by which you can climb to a great height with a minimum of fatigue, never lifting the body more than a few inches at a time. But as there might be such a thing as racing up a staircase, so when we study against time, there is a strain in the more speed, however good may be the system we are following. There may also be a strain on the faculties in the direction of them toward a kind of study which is not adapted to our natural gifts. If we learn what nature qualified us to learn, and learn it step by step, without hurry, we incur a minimum of cerebral fatigue and gain a maximum of acquirement. Study of this kind gently stimulates and does not fatigue, unless prolonged for an unreasonable length of time. It is positively favorable to health, because it is favorable to cheerfulness; it makes life pleasanter and more interesting, and so far from being injurious to the nervous system, gives it tone and vigor, just as manly exercises give tone and vigor to the muscular system. There can be no doubt that men were intended to bear intellectual labor without injury to their health; we are constituted to think and learn, just as a fish is constituted to swim or a bird to fly.—Sci.” —Prof. Faraday has given it as his opinion that all who die before they are a hundred years old may be justly charged with self-murder; that Providence, having originally intended man to live a century, would allow him to live a century did he not kill himself by eating unwholesome food, allowing himself to be annoyed by trifles, giving license to passion, and exposing himself to accident. The French savan, Flourin, advanced the theory that the duration of life is measured by the time of growth. When the epiphyses of the bones are united, the body grows no more, and it is at twenty years that this union is effected in man. The natural termination of life is five removes from the several points. Man, being twenty years in growing, lives, or should live, five times twenty years; the camel is eight years in growing, and lives five times eight years; the horse is five years in growing, and lives twenty-five years, and so on with other animals.—Sel. There is an incessant clatter about modes of education—how best to teach American boys the classics or science or the rules of trade—but when are they taught reticence, decent, grave reserve of thought and speech, self-control; in short, that which makes an ordinary man greater than him who wins many battles? We have our jokes upon the cautious-tongued, canny Scotchman, and the taciturn Quaker, but they could teach us lessons which would increase our self-respect and enable us to cut a more decent figure in the eyes of the world.—N. Y. Tribune. Books, Pamphlets, and Tracts,
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By James White
We have many things to say of our school, and wish to make some pointed statements now and here. The first and most prominent object of the Battle Creek College was the mental improvement of those men and women who wish to give themselves to the work of God. But while this grand object is being gained, an opportunity is also offered our brethren and sisters to send their children to a school whose high aim is to secure the best moral and religious influence free from the corrupting blight realized at many other schools. It is admitted that it will cost the most vigilant care to accomplish this; but those who have the charge of our good school decide to maintain it at all hazards. But the first object is the education of those who feel called of God to give their lives to the gospel. Many of these feel that they have not time to take a full course of study. In this their views and feelings are probably correct. Only one year's study, or even one term, would help them much. At least they could in one term have their minds disciplined to study, if little more was gained, and from that point they could study to better advantage as they shall go forth to teach the word of God to the people. Eld. J. N. Andrews has not attended school since a boy of fourteen years, and has been a hard worker in the gospel since the age of twenty, and yet reads Latin, Greek, German, French and Hebrew. He is an able writer and editor in both English and French. We say, Let the youth take a full course of study, and let those in manhood and womanhood, who may have reached even the noon of life, have the advantages of our school as their position and the circumstances demand. But what can be done for those who feel urged by the Spirit of God to give themselves to the work of the ministry, and desire the advantages of our school, and have not the means to spare to meet all the expenses of a few terms? There are a few of this class who need help, and without it cannot attend our school. Some of them are hesitating when they should be either at our school or in the field, though difficult and embarrassing their situation. And it seems to us that there is no time to be lost in this matter. Measures should be taken in all our Conferences to encourage the proper persons to attend our school preparatory, more or less, to entering the ministry. The fields are all white for the harvest. Our preachers cannot fill a tithe of the openings for effective labor, and scores of young men are hesitating for want of that mental training a few terms at our school would give them. Most of these need no help if they will accept that convenient, though humble, board and room, and lodgings, provided at Battle Creek. Others need some help, and none but can help themselves in part if they have to saw wood by candle light. Now we suggest that those be helped who need help, and are anxious to help themselves. The Executive Committees of the several Conferences should carefully and thoroughly search up this matter, and encourage the proper persons to attend our school, and should also make provisions to assist those who are both worthy and very needy. There are nearly one hundred and fifty students at our school. There should be at least two hundred and fifty at the winter term. Eld. U. Smith should have a class of not less than one hundred during the winter term in attendance at his Biblical Lectures. Every effort will be made to make the winter and spring terms successful; and with proper co-operation on the part of the several Conference Committees, there may be a large attendance at the school and Biblical Lectures. But we wish to speak of the present financial condition of our College, and suggest what it should be, and, by the grace of God, what it shall be. And, first, we have to state that the College has a debt of not less than $10,000 on it, calling for interest money which it has not to pay. The tuitions from students, while there are less than one hundred and fifty in attendance, are not sufficient to meet current expenses, to say nothing of interest on the debt which must be paid. It will be seen at once, that in the present condition of things, no one need appeal to the directors of the Battle Creek College for pecuniary favors. If assistance be given to students, it must come from individuals, churches and Conferences. True, the General Conference, in extra session last spring, voted an appropriation of $1,000 to assist those who need help. But the General Conference treasury is nearly empty, being unable to do proper justice to those in its employ. Elders A. C. Bourdeau, Lane, Corliss, and others, are paid in part, and are told that they can no longer look to the General Conference for help. Elders Van Horn and Waggoner must be helped, and should be helped to a greater amount than the treasury holds at this date. We appeal to our churches, Conferences, and to those individuals among us who are able to help, and should help, and must help or lose the favor of God, to come forward at this critical and important hour with the help they are fully able to give. What our College needs just now is $20,000, one-half to pay the debt, which will also relieve the REVIEW Office, which let the College have the money, and the other $10,000, as an endowment for the benefit of the school. With three hundred students, and an income besides, the school could be properly sustained, and be able to give tuition free to those whose other expenses were met in part or wholly by the several Conferences. This must be done. The amount must be raised. And it will be a disgrace to our people, and a sin in the sight of God, if the needed sum be not promptly raised. In last week's REVIEW we appealed for the sum of $20,000. And we offered $100 to each and every $500 raised by all our people besides. But we decide not to wait for others to do their duty. One year since Mrs. W. and the writer had stock in our College to the amount of $1,000. At the issuing of the Supplement last spring we took $500 more, making $1,500. And when appealing in behalf of our College on the Michigan Camp-ground, we pledged $500 more, which we have paid, making $2,000. And now we take $1,000 more, making $3,000, and we hope that the men of means among us will be so fully stirred in regard to our school, and so promptly come up to the work with the $18,000, that we shall have the pleasure by New Years of adding the other $1,000. Our people will not resist our appeals in behalf of our Heaven-born and Heaven-directed institution, the Battle Creek College. Before suffering such institutions to suffer and languish for want of means it is their duty to sell houses and lands to raise the needed means, and it is our duty to continue to give until there remains a very frugal competency. But, at present, the cause in all its branches calls for only a tithe of our income, and those offerings that can be made without inconvenience. We appeal to our ministers to give, and to preach “give” to the people. We appeal to the presidents of all our Conferences to see that all come up to the figures on S. B. We appeal to the officers of the tract and missionary workers to take hold of the work systematically and push it kindly and yet firmly until there be equality among all our people in holding stock in our institutions. What a shameful exhibit at our anniversaries at Lansing in September! When the stockholders of the S. D. A. Publishing Association, College, and Health Institute were all called forward to vote, not a tithe of our people present at that camp-meeting came forward, for the simple reason that nine-tenths had taken no stock in these institutions. Here is a field of labor for the officers of our Conferences, and T. and M. Societies, to work in the love and fear of God until equality shall exist in the blessed work of giving. We talk of equality in Systematic Benevolence. This is right. God help all our people to reach it. And why not reach equality in those other offerings to build up our institutions so well? This work must be taken hold of in earnest. God will bless his servants and all our people in seizing hold of it. PUBLICATIONS BY MAIL.
By James White
Postal law is decidedly favorable to our publishing house's sending out books to patrons by mail. The postage on Bound-books, Pamphlets, and Tracts is alike, at the rate of one pound for eight cents. This is one-half the rates one year since. Again, the United States' mail is one of the very safest and surest institutions beneath the sun. The losses on money sent to this Office annually amount to next to nothing. And the losses of books sent out from this Office through the mails are equally small. And, again, books can be so strongly and thoroughly enveloped as to make them as secure by mail, as by express, and much more secure than when slammed about the country, half packed, in a colporteur's trunk. Of the latter we often have painful experiences in trunk-worn and finger-soiled lots returned to this Office. We offer our publications to our patrons by mail, becoming responsible (1) for their safe protection while in transit through the mails from all injury, (2) for their safe arrival at the office of their destination, and (3) for all sums of money of $2 or less in one letter. Larger sums should be sent in draft or money order, or currency can be sent in small bills divided between two or more letters sent at different times. And, again, we appeal to our patrons on the point of their duty to sustain the Publishing Association. It has been so liberal with the T. and M. Societies, and so merciful with poor ministers, and so lenient with those it has trusted, who neglect to pay, that our noble publishing house is laboring under embarrassments. We ask you to send your orders for books direct to this Office to be safely received by you at retail prices. Every hymn book you order by mail, enclosing one dollar, puts nearly twenty cents into the Association's hands above wholesale price when sent by express to some member of the church. If churches will club together and send for books by express at published prices they will help us now when we need help. Again, officers of Tract Societies will sometimes order as many tracts as you can hold between your thumb and finger, and make out a five dollar order by express by a single copy of this and that at liberal discount! We are ashamed for these men who become stingy over our discounts which have embarrassed the Office. We want no more such little business. And decide to give no discount from the book fund on orders from Tract men less than $10, in tracts alone. It is painful to fence against small deal. It is trying work for the farmer to build fences against small animals. We ask our friends to send in their orders for the New Hymn Book, Testimony No. 27, and all other books they need to be forwarded to them by mail at published prices. Do not hold your money until next camp-meeting, or till some agent comes round. We have more than twenty tons of books on hand, such as you need, and we need the money for them now. Just look over the list of publications, and order those you need without delay. J. W. Address, REVIEW AND HERALD,
Battle Creek, Mich. OUR HEALTH ALMANAC.
By James White
Our Family Health Almanac for 1877 is being rushed through the press as fast as possible. Application is made to print a very large edition for California; but our presses cannot do the work. It will, however, be printed at the Office of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES at Oakland, Cal. All orders for our Almanac to be circulated in the Pacific Coast States and Territories should be forwarded to SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, California. Price, postage paid, 10 cents. Our Almanac has been prepared by the able, careful, and critical hand of Dr. Kellogg, and is well printed on fine stock. It is an honor to our Health Institute as a production from the Physician-in-chief, and speaks well for our publishing house as a specimen of the printing art. This work should be widely circulated as it is an almanac free from the corrupting influence of comic pictures and vulgar stories, and also free from deceptive advertisements of poisonous medicines which curse the world. Our almanac is the very best publication we can first circulate to open the minds of the people to the great health question, as it contains a select amount of health reading unexceptionable to the common reader.2 The Tract and Missionary Societies can circulate more than 150,000 copies of our Almanac east of the Rocky Mountains without embarrassing their treasuries. The Almanac costs the Societies only $2.50 per 100 copies, and a large share can be sold by a thousand canvassers for four times, or at least twice, their cost so as to be an actual income to the Societies. Eld. B. L. Whitney, President of the Tract Society in the State of New York, has sent his order, and if other States order amounts corresponding in membership to the Empire State, more than 150,000 of our Almanacs will be taken by the T. and M. workers. The sums corresponding to membership are as follows:— New York, 10,000; Michigan, 50,000; Iowa, 19,000; Wisconsin, 18,000; Minnesota, 12,000; Ohio, 7,000; New England, 6,000; Kansas, 6,000; Illinois, 6,000; Indiana, 5,000; Vermont, 5,000; Missouri, 5,000; Maine, 4,000; Virginia, 1,000; Texas, 1,000. Total, 155,000. Some of these will overrun the number stated, while some may fall short. In addition to these amounts, individuals are taking lots in which pages of advertisements are inserted of their local business, such as merchants, mechanics, &c., &c. J. W. THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD is designed to be our church paper in which to appeal to our people in regard to their duty in sustaining the great work in all its branches, to explain our missionary work, to give appointments and reports of missionary meetings, and to clearly and pointedly state the dangers and duties of our time. Such a paper is not as well adapted to go abroad in new fields as the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, published at Oakland, California. And we urge all who wish to send one of our papers to their unbelieving and partly interested friends to send them the SIGNS. The recent action of our people in California has revived in us all the hopes of success of our California paper and Office that we ever cherished. W. C. White and his wife, who have the charge of the paper and the Office, are proving themselves worthy of that confidence given them in their youth by our people on the Pacific Coast. They are growing stronger with their experience, and are becoming fully competent, with the blessing of God, for their task. Mrs. W. and the writer are going to their help in a few weeks, Lord willing, and we shall do what we can to add to the interest and usefulness of the SIGNS. We state these facts for the information of those who wish to send the SIGNS to their friends at $1.50 a year, postage paid. The SIGNS is just the paper to occupy new fields where lectures are being given. No subscription taken for less than fifty cents for fifteen numbers in such cases, and this offer is confined to localities where the first course of lectures is being given. This plan is laid to help our preachers in their work, and we hope they will all co-operate energetically to get, at least, fifteen numbers of the SIGNS before all their interested hearers, and at the same time obtain as many full-paying subscribers for a full year at $2 as they possibly can. But we make no such offers to the T. and M. Societies, nor to those who send the SIGNS to their friends. We think one year is none too long a time to make a complete trial. We hope for 10,000 three-fourth-pay subscribers for one year east of the Rocky Mountains. And in addition to this, many of our people will wish to take both the REVIEW and the SIGNS. These two papers to regular subscribers east of the Rocky Mountains will be alike, $2 a year. We hope all our people will bear this in mind, that while the SIGNS is designed for a pioneer sheet, to contain the religious news of the REVIEW condensed, and possess many advantages over the REVIEW for new fields, the REVIEW will be our church paper, which will contain considerable matter not so well adapted to those not instructed in the faith. The REVIEW has its work and position, and all our friends from the Atlantic to the Pacific should read it. The REVIEW has hitherto been the medium of appeal to our people relative to our school; but for want of room to set this matter before our people in the most direct and forcible manner we have resorted to the plan of issuing a supplement occasionally, and shall commence a monthly as early as with the new year, entitled, The Battle Creek College, devoted to the subject of education in general, and our school in particular. We have asked for 5,000 subscribers at 10 cents a year, post-paid, and wait for our T. & M. workers to send in 3,000 names more to make up the number. We shall probably issue the number for January 1877 in advance, and furnish extra copies for canvassers. What a grumbling there was on the part of some who had pledged for our school, and paid more or less, or none, when they saw mistakes in their figures in the Supplement issued last spring! Who loves to be scolded when he does the best he can? Now if any suppose that their humble servants at the REVIEW Office love this grumbling they are simply laboring under a mistake greater than those committed at the REVIEW Office. But some people have the grumble in them. You can see it in their eyes, and on their knitted brow, waiting to come out upon their tongues at the first chance. But sometimes these parties favor us with regular doggish growls when they are the only party in the fault. But be it known to all our liberal friends, and any body else, that we shall be happy to promptly correct any and all mistakes that may appear in the names and sums in this Supplement. We shall be so happy to have our mistakes pointed out in a kind spirit. We don't want any one who detects mistakes to wait a single day after receiving this sheet before informing us of them. And if there be some who cannot correct us without giving us a scolding, we will agree to whistle while they fret. Some things we know, and one is, that he who will scold us on paper, when we do the best we can, will scold his wife, will scold her husband, will scold his son or daughter, and will scold his or her father and mother. But we shall do our best, and take the consequences. CONFERENCE ADDRESS.
By James White
Progress and Wants of the Cause.
(Continued from page 132.) But we are sorry to say that our fine building with all its advantages is not more than half filled with students. This cripples, not only the usefulness of the school, but also its financial ability. There is a debt of $10,000, on the school, on which sum interest must be paid. There should be, instead of this debt drawing interest, a fund greater than the debt, the interest of which coming in would help sustain the school. Measures must be taken immediately for the relief of our school and to place it where it will accomplish the greatest amount of good possible. 1. The debt must be removed. There are more unpaid pledges than to cover the debt. These must be collected, excepting in a few cases of inability to pay. The Supplement which accompanies this week’s REVIEW gives the names of all who have made pledges to our College, whether paid or unpaid. These names will appear each month, either in a Supplement or in a monthly paper published in the interests of our College. Delinquents will in this way be fully notified of their delinquency, and as fast as they pay up, due credit will be given them as having paid. If mistakes occur they will cheerfully be corrected on receiving notice. 2. There should and must be equality in the pleasurable task of sustaining and nourishing our school. But few of our people have taken any part in this good work. The certificates of stock in our College number less than seven hundred, when in fact there are not less then three thousand persons among our people in the United States who are each able to hold stock to the amount of $10 each, and upward. 3. Many who have already taken stock in our College are fully able to take more, and as the necessities of the case are set before them they will cheerfully add to their number of shares. The writer has one hundred shares, and now, in consideration of the pressing wants of the College, takes fifty more for Mrs. White. The friends of education in the ranks of S. D. Adventists have only to know that our school needs money at this time, in order to know their immediate duty. We hope for a prompt response to this appeal from hundreds who have taken stock in the Battle Creek College, and who are able to take more. Forward the cash if you have it on hand. If not, send your pledges to be paid during 1876. 4. There are persons in the several States who should take a course of study at our school to prepare them for usefulness in the cause. Many of these need more or less pecuniary assistance. Each State Conference should give this assistance as far as possible to persons in their own State, and the General Conference should meet such wants in the weaker Conferences. The devoted poor, who give themselves to the Lord to labor in his cause, should have the benefits of our school. Let the College building be filled with students, and let our school be freely and fully sustained that it may accomplish the great good Heaven has designed. 5. Finally, we shall publish the names of all those who have pledged means for our College each month, and let it appear who have paid, and who have not paid. And each month it will appear who have paid pledges during the month, and who have added to the amount of their stock, and what new names are added to the number of stock holders. Less than seven hundred persons hold stock amounting to about $40,000. We are fully resolved to prosecute our present plans until at least 3,000 persons hold stock in our College to the amount of $100,000. The College owes the Publishing Association $10,000, and our publishing work is crippled for the want of this sum. We urge liberal equality by all those who are able to take stock in the Battle Creek College. And the real friends of our institutions, who can take from one to one hundred shares, and not feel the least embarrassed by so doing, is not less than three thousand persons. When every State and every church shall be thoroughly canvassed this will be found to be the case. Those who have not ready cash can give their pledges, to be paid during 1876. We hope to see the number of names doubled in the first number of the new paper for June. We ask for no sums less than $10 from any one. Those who find sums set to their names in this Supplement less than $10, are invited to make them up to $10, if they are able so to do, or give permission to have them turned over to the General Conference which has already appropriated $1,000 to the College. “THE PENNY YE MEANT TO GI'E.”
There's a funny tale of a stingy man / Who was none too good, but might have been worse, / Who went to his church on a Sunday night, / And carried along his well-filled purse. When the sexton came with his begging-plate, / The church was but dim with the candles' light; / The stingy man fumbled all through his purse, / And chose a coin by touch—not sight. It's an odd thing now that guineas should be / So like unto pennies in shape and size. / “I'll give a penny,” the stingy man said; / “The poor must not gifts of pennies despise.” The penny fell down with a clatter and ring! / And back in his seat leaned the stingy man, / “The world is so full of the poor,” he thought, / “I can't help them all—I give what I can.” Ha, ha! how the sexton smiled, to be sure. / To see the gold guinea fall in his plate! / Ha, ha! how the stingy man's heart was wrung, / Perceiving his blunder, but just too late! “No matter,” he said; “in the Lord's account / That guinea of gold is set down to me, / They lend to him who give to the poor; / It will not be so bad an investment be.” “Na, na, mon,” the chuckling sexton cried out; / “The Lord is na cheated—he kens thee well; / He knew it was only by accident / That out o' thy fingers the guinea fell!” “He keeps an account, na doubt, for the puir; / But in that account He'll set down to thee / Na mair o' that golden guinea, my mon, / Than the one bare penny ye meant to gi'e!” There's a comfort, too, in the little tale— / A serious side as well as a joke; / A comfort for all the generous poor, / In the comical words the sexton spoke. A comfort to think that the good Lord knows / How generous we really desire to be, / And will give us credit in his account / For all the pennies we long “to gi'e.” / —St. Nicholas. By reference to receipts in the Review for Educational Aid Fund we find that fifteen persons donated $471.50 from Oct. 21, 1875, to January 20, 1876. As matters now stand fifteen have taken notice of this important call and have responded in sums ranging as follows: Two persons, $100 each; three, $50; two, $25; four, $10; one, $12.50; one, $15; two, $2 each. This sum of $471.50 was cheerfully donated, and was virtually placed at the feet of our School Board by the President of the General Conference in his appeal for the money, to be used in helping those young men who are worthy. But we see no reasons why means for our institutions, for the general good of the cause, should not be raised in a systematic manner, similar to our benevolence to support the ministry. When the brethren in all the States come up to the plan adopted by our people generally, then it will be an easy task for each State, and each church, and even for individuals, to ascertain their proportion in any call for ten, twenty-five, or fifty thousand dollars. In all these matters of liberality there should be union, equality, and energetic action. As the General Conference at its late extra session made an appropriation to assist certain students in their expenses at our College, those who donated to the Educational Aid Fund can appropriate their donations to stock in the College, or as they may deem it duty. Our school is for the benefit of the cause at large, and appropriations for our General Conference are more equitable, than for a few individuals to donate beyond their means.