Thanks te the 13th Sabbath Overflow!
RAY L. JACOBS
A group of visitors was being
shown the beautiful Franco-Haitian
Seminary. Although this visit was
unannounced, the dormitories were
in perfect order; the beds were neatly
made and the tile floors shone with
a high polish. The grass on the lawns
was cut, and students moved about
in an orderly way, dressed in their
attractive school uniforms.
As the visitors stood admiring the
simple but functional, well-built ad-
ministration building, someone asked,
“Has this school ever received the
benefits from a 13th Sabbath Over-
flow Offering?” |
With a smile, portraying great
satisfaction, the director of the Sem-
inary, Roy Perrin, answered, “Yes,
vou are now looking at the results of
just such an offering.”
That building with its airv class-
rooms, its comfortable offices, its
ample library, and its neat dining
room and kitchen, was a reality be-
cause faithful Sabbath school mem-
bers around the world had given “a
little extra” on a 13th Sabbath a few
quarters ago.
But this was not just another build-
ing. It represented the transformation
of a school. Now that classes no
longer have to be taught in the dorm-
itory rooms, the school has been able
to accept two or three times as many
students as in former years, College
work can now be offered, and
students are being received from the
entire Franco-Haitian Union.
One girl came from a distant island
and from a horne that opposes her in
her new-found religion. She had to
come entirely on her own, but she has
talents and wants to prepare to be a
worker. Now she has her opportunity
—thanks to the 13th Sabbath Over-
flow Offering!
A young man talked to the leaders
about his desire to be a minister.
Another wants to be a treasurer.
Here they are: future teachers, Bible
workers, and colporteurs, future
leaders in the Cause of God and
future’ inhabitants of heaven—thanks
to the 13th ~ Sabbath Overflow
Offering!
What an opportunity and what a
challenge—building by giving liberal-
ly on every 13th Sabbath! Sabbath
school members, be sure you share
MAY, 1963!"
The sacrificial giving of Seventh-day Adventists around the world on the third
quarter 13th Sabbath, 1958, provided funds for the construction of this
administration building at the Franco-Haitian Seminary, a building which changed
a whole school.
in the giving and you will not tail
to share in the eternal results. What
a privilege!
DEDICATION
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something I want to tell Him
myself.”
They knelt beside a tree, and the
minister prayed. A pause came after
the Amen, and then the man opened
his heart in prayer: “Dear Lord, You
have my whole estate. Am I not now
in a position to give You my way-
ward boy? Mother and I seem to
have no influence with him. Every:
thing I have is Yours now, Lord.
Won't You take my boy this same
way and save him, save him soon?
Please, heavenly Father. Amen.”
At five o'clock that Friday after-
noon this same minister was speaking
to the voung; people. An appeal was
made for consecration. An indifferent
young man who had first stood at
the edge of the tent, then sat in a
rear seat, had grown very serious.
The Holy Spirit was moving upon
his heart. He arose and came forward
to make his decision for Christ. On
the other side of the tent was the
father who had dedicated that boy
to God that morning, tears of joy
making his eyes glisten.
Oh, what power a man or a woman
has with God—what power to move
the arm of Omnipotence—if he is
willing to say, “Everything I have
is Yours and I am Yours to go, to
stay, to be, to do as You wish, dear
Master.” Then surely God “shall turn
the heart of the fathers to the
children, and heart of the children
to their fathers”; and our homes will
be as God planned them to be—a
pathway of mutual love that leads to
the eternal home of jov and perfect
companionship.
The Lord desires that His word of
grace shall be brought home to every
soul. To a great degree this must be
accoinplished by personal labour. This
was Christ's method. His work was
largely made up of personal inter.
views. He had a faithful regard for the
one-soul audience. Through thai one
soul the message was ofien extended
to thousands.
~Christ's Object Lessons, page 229
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