Your ShelfYour Projects

THE TEXAS CONFERENCE

17%

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 13.

Read the full edition

THE TEXAS CONFERENCE.

By James White

THE Texas Conference is small. Probably there are not more than three hundred Seventh-day Adventists in this large State. The emigration to this State is great. The people come from all parts in covered wagons. Thousands who are pouring in, have not so much as heard of a Sabbath-keeper in the world. I never saw people so eager to read as these. This is a vast missionary field, and yet it has received but little help from the General Conference. Texas has not been helped to the amount of two hundred dollars. Their tract and missionary society is about seven hundred dollars in debt. But they have, as we are glad to report, one thousand dollars on hand in books and cash.
At their camp-meeting and Conference last November, twelve hundred dollars was pledged to the tract and missionary society, all to be paid during the year 1879. But ready cash is almost out of the question. The preachers that labor in this State are poor men. Two tents are ordered. If the preachers can collect enough for running expenses the present season, they will do well.
In view of the foregoing facts, of which we have personal knowledge, we suggest that the President of the Texas Conference can hire the money to purchase the tents until cotton season, when the brethren will have some money. When the Texas brethren shall pay for these tents, the General Conference and the REVIEW Office will place to the credit of the Texas Conference and T. and M. Society the entire amount of the cost of the tents they use and pay for.
The statement of the case is now before those whom this matter may concern. If our brethren in Texas purchase and support one tent, they will be credited on their account at the REVIEW Office the cost of one tent. If they support two tents, they will be credited the cost of two. And if they can furnish laborers and support for three tents, they will receive credit on their account for the cost of the three.
And further, at any time when the brethren of the Texas Conference are ready for a good class of one hundred, Elders Smith and White will hold a Biblical Institute with them. We suggest that the first of next November, in connection with their Conference, at the camp-meeting, would be a good time. God bless the Texas Conference. It is small; but there is room and material in this vast field for one of our strongest Conferences. JAMES WHITE.