TEXAS CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
By W. A. McCutchen
The twenty-third annual session of the Texas Seventh-day Adventist Conference was held at Keene, Tex., Jan. 3–9, 1901. The business of the Conference covered seven meetings, in which the delegates and all present took a lively interest. Resolutions were passed authorizing the payment of the salary of one of the teachers of Keene Academy from the Conference funds; indorsing the plan and purpose of the Berean Reading Circle, also the movement on foot for the relief of the schools, pledging the efforts of the Conference laborers in selling, and in securing the co-operation of the churches and the scattered brethren and sisters in the sale of, “Christ’s Object Lessons,” until Texas’ quota of these books is disposed of, and requesting the workers to take gifts of money and pledges for the fifty-thousand-dollar material fund; expressing regret but humble submission at the death of one of our licensed ministers, and tendering our sympathies to his family; also deploring the devastation, the loss of life, and the breaking up of some of our churches in the southern part of the state, by the terrible storm and tidal wave of last September, and pledging the unfortunates still left to us our sincere sympathy and material assistance; and expressing special gratitude to God for His blessings upon us the last year as a Conference, and for the marked improvement in our financial condition. Regarding the last item mentioned, the treasurer’s financial report showed receipt of tithes for the year to be $9,541.20—almost double that of the year before. The number given ministerial credentials is 11; ministerial license, 4; missionary license, 12. Of this latter number, six are actively and regularly engaged in the Bible work. The officers chosen for the ensuing year are as follows: President, E. T. Russell; Secretary, W. A. McCutchen; Treasurer, C. N. Woodward. Executive Committee: E. T. Russell, H. B. French, W. S. Greer, J. B. Beckner, Jacob Riffel. W. A. McCUTCHEN, Sec.