p. 10 | Seventh Meeting by H. W. Cottrell; W. A. Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 25, 1905

Seventh Meeting

By H. W. Cottrell; W. A. Spicer

THE seventh meeting was called to order at 9:30 A. M., May 15, H. W. Cottrell in the chair.

After the hymn, “Awake my soul,” R. A. Underwood led in prayer.

A short time was devoted to a formal legal meeting of the Washington Training-School Association and of the Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium Association.

Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.

The following delegates responded to the roll-call for the first time:— F. W. Field, Wm. Guthrie, Margaret Haughey (in the place of Joseph Smith).

South America

The Chairman called on J. W. Westphal to give a report of the South American Union Mission field (which appears in this paper).

Southwestern Union Conference

Following this N. P. Nelson presented a report for the Southwestern Union Conference, a brief summary of which follows:—

This Union has a vast area, 382,000 square miles, with a population of 5,360,000. Nearly a million of these are colored. Many thousands of Mexicans reside along the border. The church-membership is 3,333; ministerial force, fifty-five, of whom three are colored. The union policy is to push the work in new fields, and during the term twenty-two churches and companies have been raised up, and thirteen church buildings have been erected. Two of these are for the colored people, one in Arkansas and one in Texas. The Keene Academy has had an enrolment of 116. Its indebtedness is very nearly wiped out. During the two years books have been sold to the value of over forty thousand dollars, and this work is reviving. Success has attended merging the conference papers into one union organ. Two sanitariums, one in Keene, the other in Little Rock, are in a prosperous condition, and treatment rooms are being fitted up in several of the large cities. Special attention has been given to mission work among the colored people, with encouraging results. Two large preaching tents will be in use by colored workers this summer. An industrial school for the colored people is being established in Arkansas, forty acres having been purchased, and a small building erected.

The Union is thankful for the outside financial help that has been rendered it. They ask this conference to provide some regular source of income, inasmuch as the field is large and undeveloped and the resources slender. The tithe stands at about eight dollars per capita, an increase of one dollar over last year. The workers are of good courage, and know that the Lord is going before them, and that victory is sure.

The meeting then adjourned.

H. W. COTTRELL, Chairman, W. A. SPICER, Secretary.