The Work in Kansas by W. D. MacLay

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1915

The Work in Kansas

By W. D. MacLay

It is a little over one year since I came to this conference. As most of the readers of the REVIEW are aware, Kansas had been divided into two conferences for several years. At the camp meeting in Wichita a year ago last September the conferences were united.

During the past year the Lord has blessed the work in Kansas in a very marked manner, and about three hundred persons have accepted the truth. There has been a very great increase in the money contributed to the cause, as a comparative statement will show.

The combined tithe for the East and West Kansas Conferences for the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 1914, was $24,953.36. The tithe for the united Kansas Conference for the following twelve months, ending Sept. 30, 1915, was $48,991.77. The offerings to missions for the period ending Sept. 30, 1914, from the two conferences was $11,686.40, while the offerings to missions from the Kansas Conference for the period ending Sept. 30, 1915, was $24,422.30. The book sales for the same periods are as follows: East and West Kansas, $6,989.70; Kansas Conference, $16,193.30.

During the summer we operated twelve strongly manned tent companies, with gratifying results.

In the Kansas Conference we have two academies, one at Oswego, in the south-eastern part of the State; the other near Downs, in the north central part of the State. Both these schools are doing excellent work. During the tent season we employed a number of students from the schools,—the young men as tent masters and the young women as Bible workers.

At Wichita we have our sanitarium, which is doing excellent work and enjoying a good patronage.

Personally, I have enjoyed my year's work in Kansas very much. The workers are all of good courage, and are pressing on for greater things this coming year.

W. D. MacLAY.