WHAT CONFERENCE WILL RESPOND?
The Lord has said that the Southern field is a “difficult” field for our missionary efforts, but that it is a “fruitful field.” Work in the past here has moved quite slowly. The Tennessee River Conference has a membership of about three hundred and seventy-five persons. A burden of indebtedness is resting upon it at present, but we hope by the blessing of the Lord to see this greatly reduced during the coming year. We are in pressing need of a consecrated lady Bible worker to enter Memphis, a city of one hundred thousand inhabitants who have scarcely heard a note of the Third Angel’s Message, also support for this worker for one year. In Memphis there are only a few sisters, and they are struggling to hold up the light, and are crying for help. There are so many other calls for the laborers now in the field that it is impossible for us to send a worker to this city. In fact, we have no one to send. Work in the cities must be carried on largely through Bible work, from house to house. Memphis is a pleasant city on the Mississippi River, and it is high time we had a good, faithful laborer there. Now will not one of our strong Conferences hear our plea, and select one of their best Bible workers, who has a burden for this field, and send her here and support her for a year in the work? We know that a blessing will come to the Conference that will do this, and that it will help to increase a missionary spirit among the membership of the Conference, as they watch the results of the labor of the worker thus sent forth, and their prayers follow her. We believe some one will hear our pleadings, and answer the call. Who will it be? I have been in this Conference only four months, but I can say that the Lord is going before the laborers in a special manner. Many openings for labor are presenting themselves, and new courage is coming to the workers, as many of them testify. For all this I praise the Lord. I know that there are many, many needy fields in foreign lands, calling for help; but not every one is prepared to go to foreign lands. We can use some one here who is not ready to go to a foreign field, and the experience that may be gained in a year’s work in this field, may be just what is needed to fit the worker for some more difficult field. We shall be glad to hear from any who are interested in the work here, and to give any information desired. If any of our Bible workers who read this feel a special burden for this field, they are requested to indicate it to their Conference committee. Address W. J. Stone, 415 Woodland St., Nashville, Tenn.