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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 48.

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South Texas Meeting

By G. F. Watson

This meeting was held according to announcement, at San Antonio, October 26 to November 5. A goodly number of our people were encamped on the ground, and had it not been for the heavy rainfall so much of the time, many people from the city would have attended. This was shown by the attendance on the evenings that it did not rain.
We met as a mission, but separated as an organized conference. The South Texas Conference was organized Oct. 29, 1911. The business meetings were marked by a large degree of that spirit which causes men to agree, so the affairs of the conference were arranged with a feeling of good will on the part of all present.
The reports rendered by the mission superintendent, the treasurer, the field missionary agent, and the Sabbath-school secretary, were very good. Elder J. I. Taylor was unanimously elected president of this new conference, with Elder J. A. Leland, Brethren E. L. Neff and N. H. Conway, and Judge Connell, as the other members of the conference committee. At present the headquarters of the South Texas Conference are at 113 West Seventh St., Austin, Tex.
Prof. E. E. Farnsworth, of Keene Academy, was with us three days at the first of the meeting, and Elder W. W. Eastman during the last three days. Brother C. E. Smith, who was the treasurer of the mission field, was present, and turned over all funds to the new conference treasurer, Brother J. H. Wilcox. Brother R. L. Pierce, manager of the Forth Worth Branch, was also present, and turned over the book and tract work to the youngest child of our union.
On Sabbath, November 4, ten believers were buried with their Lord in baptism; and on Sunday, at the close of the last service, Earnest Taylor was ordained to the gospel ministry.
In spite of the inclement weather, the meeting was a success; and the people returned to their homes, and the laborers to their fields with renewed courage.
G. F. WATSON.