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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 9, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 32.

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Tennessee

By R. S. Donnell

MEMPHIS.—For more than two years the city of Memphis has been my field of labor. We are heeding the Testimony, however, that “we should work the cities, but not dwell in them.” Our post-office address is R. F. D. 2, Raleigh, Tenn.
Before we reached Memphis, the church there had been disbanded, and so there was no organized church of our people in the city. A small company were meeting together in the church house each Sabbath for worship. Brother F. T. Wales and Brother and Sister Ballsbaugh were doing Bible work and canvassing in the city. They still continue their efforts, and have been able to accomplish a good work.
After laboring a few months the church was reorganized, and others have been added to it from time to time until at the present we have a church of about fifty members. Others are keeping the Sabbath who have not yet joined the church. Our Sabbath-school numbers sixty-five, and from the few who attended at the first, our congregation on the Sabbath has grown to seventy-five or eighty. The interest is good, and new faces are often seen in the congregation at our Sabbath meetings.
No tent-meeting, and not even a series of meetings, has been held in the church or anywhere in the city since I began my labors, but house-to-house work has been done. The Memphis church is not dead, and in it are some good workers. The debt on the church building has all been paid, for which we praise the Lord.
We think it time now for a public effort to be made, and we are hoping for a tent-meeting before the season for tent labor ends.
Memphis is a rapidly growing city, and at the present rate bids fair to outrival its larger sister cities of the South.As a field of labor we know of none the better; in fact, I have never been in another city where the people were so free to come out on the Sabbath to hear preaching. To the faithful worker Memphis promises a fruitful field. Our courage in the Lord and in his truth is good. Pray for us and for the work here. R. S. DONNELL.