Alabama by C. C. WEBSTER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 9, 1907

Alabama

By C. C. WEBSTER

BIRMINGHAM.—Four months have now passed since we came to this place, and I am sure that if the brethren of our more favored conferences understood the great need of work and the scarcity of workers here, they would do more for this needy field.

I can truly say the half has never been told. We have all read, no doubt, what the servant of the Lord has said in regard to this field, that the doors are already being closed, and the work is becoming more difficult each year, and that we can not do the work now that might have been done once. Can we rest contentedly while our neighbors, right at our very doors, are going down to eternal death without hearing the message of warning?

We have been told that the time has come to work the cities, and right here in Alabama, as well as in other conferences of the South, are large growing cities that have scarcely been touched. For instance, Birmingham is a large, rapidly growing city—large enough with its suburbs to keep a tent company busy until the Lord comes, and we have no tent at liberty suitable for city work.

Elder Haysmer, president of the conference, has promised to man a tent if we can raise the money to buy it; this will cost at least one hundred and fifty dollars, but the conference is burdened already beyond its resources. Are there not those of our brethren whom God has blessed with means, who have a burden for the Southern work, and who will come forward now and send money to help buy this tent? I believe there are such. Please send all money for this purpose to Helen McKinnon, 1217 Alabama St., Selma, Ala.

C. C. WEBSTER.