WHAT OUR TEXAS LABORERS ARE DOING.
By Clarence Santee
FOR some weeks Brethren C. W. Miller and H. B. French, have been holding meetings at Bowie and Bellevue. At Bowie, our people have recently built a much-needed house of worship. There are several deeply interested at Bellevue, and Brother French is now doing house-to-house work for them. The recent rains made it very difficult to continue with the tent. Brother Miller is now visiting churches, and after the week of prayer, which he will spend with the German churches at Hurnville and Valley View, he will make his work among the German-speaking people of Texas. Brethren Field and Cubley have just closed a series of meetings at Bangs, with a result of thirteen accepting the truth. The interest there continues, and they have commenced a meeting five miles from their first effort. Brother Eastman has been out in the canvassing field the last few weeks, and is gaining a fresh experience in personal canvassing. Brother Hopkins has been for some time in and near Longview. The opposition has been strong, yet souls are accepting the truth. Brethren D. U. Hale and J. I. Taylor have been faithfully laboring near Nacogdoches. Some have accepted the truth for this time, and with some who accepted the message in a former effort, there will soon, we hope, be a new church organized. Our strength is not in numbers, but in faithfulness. Our prayers, then, should be that the Lord will bless these new companies with faithful members and leaders. Brother McCutchen has moved his family to Dallas, and will for a time devote himself to enlarging the work in that city. Brother Willis, assisted by Brother W. Field, held a course of meetings near Jewell, where nine embraced the truth. When the school opened at Keene, Brother Field entered the school, and Brother Willis has been holding meetings near Venus. Six have accepted this message there, and still others are interested. This interest was aroused by faithful living on the part of a few souls who were living there. Every member can do something. Brother E. L. Neff and wife have just returned from a few weeks' trip into Kansas. He had a good rest, and now he will again enter the work in and near San Antonio. Sister Berta Taylor is assisting in Bible work there. Our Bible workers are divided as follows: Jessie Hunter at Waco; Lottie White is taking a few days' rest, and will return to Fort Worth; Jessie Robbins at Bellevue; Sister Cubley has returned home from her work with her husband at Bangs; W. E. Hancock is attending Union College, hoping to be better fitted for the work to which he has been called. You will see that our laborers are nearly all busy. Yet there is a vast field besides. We can not think of calling any from their work, but instead, we would be glad if others could be added to the list of earnest public laborers, ready to enter new, unworked fields. Our time for peaceful work is short, and the fields are white. If all will faithfully return to God that which He claims for the Gospel ministry, the laborers can be kept at work. When Israel was unfaithful, the priests had to turn to the fields for sustenance. God has spoken concerning our offerings, that they can not be taken from the tithe. This is sacred to one purpose. May God abundantly bless our laborers, our churches and companies, and give us all rest together when the work is done.
CLARENCE SANTEE.
President of Texas Conference.