Editorial July 2, 1904 Issue

The Mother Church Building Fund

In another column of this issue we give a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Building Fund as reported by the Treasurer at the Annual Meeting of the Mother Church. While this report shows that the amount paid in is quite large, it also shows that much more must be contributed before the amount pledged at the Annual Meeting in 1902 is made up. The immense amount of work required in laying the foundations for a building capable of seating five thousand persons can scarcely be appreciated by those who are not constantly on the ground; but fortunately this seemingly slow part of the construction is nearing completion, and we shall soon see the walls arise with all the rapidity consistent with first-class work.

This means that the time is at hand when the disbursements will rapidly increase because of the more expensive character of the labor and materials required, and in order to maintain an adequate balance in the hands of the Treasurer at all times, it will be necessary to increase the size and number of our contributions. The figures announced by the Treasurer are useful only as they are regarded by each individual to indicate the further amount which he will need to contribute in order to complete the sum pledged two years ago. May we not, then, ask each one to make such computation and thus take the steps necessary to cancel his part of the obligation.

The fact that four hundred thousand dollars is a very conservative estimate the amont expended in railroad fares, hotel bills, etc., by those who attended the Communion of the Mother Church in 1903, gives proof that the entire amount which has been paid to the Treasurer of the Building fund could be easily doubled in a day.

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