A Plea for the Tennessee River Conference
By W. J. Stone
The work of the third angel’s message is making progress in the Tennessee River Conference, which includes western Tennessee and western Kentucky Nashville, where the Southern Publishing Association is located, is an important center in our work. At present we have two tents in the field, and expect to start meetings in another tent soon. We also have one company holding meetings in schoolhouses. Three churches have been organized the past year, and two other companies are nearly ready for organization. One church building has been erected, one purchased and repaired, and there are two or three places where preparations are now in progress for the erection of church buildings. During the past year a two-story building for an intermediate school has been erected at Hazel, Ky., and a successful school conducted. We have also had several church schools. We have more laborers in the field, and our tithe is larger, than at any previous time; still we are in great need of workers and means. It is impossible to fill the many calls that come both for ministerial labor, and for consecrated families to settle in our weak companies, to assist in building up the work and sustaining church schools. Several families have moved to this conference from the North and West, and like it. Others are coming this fall. But we need a dozen more families, and can place them where they can make a good living, with moderate means, if they come with a missionary spirit and a mind to work. We have two or three weak churches where we wish to establish church schools, and we need two or three good families to move to these churches and assist them. It will bring new life to the churches, also to the families who will engage in this work. I shall be glad to correspond with any who have a burden for this needy yet grand old Southern field, where the people are so hospitable and kind. My address is Franklin, Ky. W. J. STONE, President Tennessee River Conference.