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Southwestern Union Record
Official Organ of the Southwestern Union Conference oy Seventh-day Adventists.
VOLUME XXVI
KEENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JULY 12.
1927
NO 28
JULY SIXTEEN
When this number of the RECORD
reaches the field we will be near the
Mid-summer Offering. As we think of
this offering it is with a prayer that a
real spirit of. sacrifice will come upon
God’s people and that an amount far
surpassing any Mid-summer Offering
yet taken will be received.
First, there was never greater need
of money than the year 1927. There
will never come a time until God's
work is over when we will need less,
but as time goes on and the work grows
more and more will be called for.
Second, there hasnever been a great-
er opportunity than now to enter the
unentered fields. There never was a
greater number of openings than now.
Third, there never has been so many
loyal believers in this message as now
and, of course, God will bless them as
they respond to these calls.
Fourth, we have never been so near
the coming of Christ as now and the
whitened fields demand haste in reaping.
Consecration, faith, Christian growth,
and deepening love for God all tug at
our heart strings and pocket hooks, ap-
pealing as never before to us to rise to
the needs of the hour.
May God shower His blessings upon
His people and may we all respond with
liberal gifts and a deeper consecration
saying, ‘Here Am I, Send Me.”’
M. B. VAN KIRK
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UNION NEWS ITEMS
Elder Eichman visited the church at
Follett, Texas, last week. He will be
in the office again next week.
Mr. C. E. Smith is in Keene, Texas,
auditing the books of Southwestern Jun-
ior College this week.
Elder E. ‘A. Pohle attended an insti-
tute with the church school teachers at
the close of summer school at Keene.
Elder M. B. Van Kirk and Elder A.
F. Harrison visited the church at Shaw-
nee, Oklahoma, Sabbath July 2 and
celebrated the Lord’s supper with them.
We all took a day off from office
work the Fourth of July. None of us
_ were the worse for the day of relaxa-
tion although to several of us it was a
day of real physical labor.
A letter from P. L. Thompson, who
is staying for six weeks in Boulder,
Colorado, brings the information that
he and his family are benefitting from
the change of climate,
Our camp meeting season opens July
14 at Malvern, Arkansas. We are hop-
ing this will be the best camp meeting
season ever. May God impress His
people everywhere to attend the camp
meetings.
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HEIM-STUART NUPTIALS
A quiet wedding ceremony uniting
‘Mr. John Heim, Cashion, Oklahoma,
and Miss Ethel Stuart, who taught in
the church school at Oklahoma City last
year, was solemnized by Elder M. B.
Van Kirk at his home, 612 West Twen-
ty-fifth Street, Oklahoma City, in the
presence of Mr. Heim’s sister and the
Van Kirk family, at seven o'clock Tues-
day evening, July 5.
Miss Stuart is well known among our
church school teachers in this union con-
ference, having taught several years at
Houston, Texas. Mr. Heim is a brother
of Professor Heim, Principal of Campion
Academy, in Colorado.
people will reside on a farm at Cashion,
thirty miles north of Oklahoma City.
This seems to be a splendid union. I
trust God will bless them in their lives
together and make them helpful to His
cause. M. B. VAN KIRK
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CHURCH ELDERS—ATTENTION!
On Sabbath, August 6, the annual
collection for the Foreign Translation
Fund is to be taken In all the churches
in North America. This fund is used
to help on the expense of issuing tracts
and small books in the various languages
in use in America. The editions in
these tongues are relatively small, and
consequently more expensive. This
fund enables us to produce this litera-
ture at a price which brings it within
the reach of all.
A thousand foreigners were brought
into the truth in America last year, and
this foreign literature played an im-
portant part in bringing them in.
These young
May we hope for a liberal offering in
each church this year.
M. N.
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CAMPBELL
SCATTERING LEAFLETS
AND PAMPHLETS
In Volume 9 under the heading of *‘A
Time of Trial Before Us,’ on page 231
we find the following statement:
‘“The night of trial is nearly spent.
Satan is bringing in his masterly power
because he knoweth that his time is
short. The chastisement of God is upon
the world to call all whoknow the truth
10 hide in the cleft of the Rock, and
view the glory of God. The truth must
not be muffled now. Plain statements
must be made. Unvarnished truth
must be spoken, in leaflets and pam-
phlets, and these must be scattered
like the leaves of autumn.”
When ‘‘the night of trial’’ is nearly
past, ‘‘unvarnished truth’ must be
spoken in leaflets and pamphlets and
scattered like the leaves of autumn.
The plain, full message is to be given
in small literature designated as ‘‘leaf-
lets and pamphlets,”’ and these are to
be ‘scattered like leaves of autumn.”
Leaves of autumn are to be found
everywhere in the fall of the year, but
they are thicker in some places than in
others. Some places receive and retain -
the autumn leaves better than others.
In such places the leaves are piled up
to various depths. There is 110 question
of their presence. Everyone residing
there, or merely passing, knows the
leaves are there. They are not placed
one here and another there, but they
are piled up one on. top of another until
the ground is thoroughly covered. Does
not this comparison of the distribution
of small literature with the falling of
the autumn leaves suggest the syste-
matic placing of this-literature? -of re-
peatedly going over the same territory
until the time of the scattering ceases?
Does it not impress us with the magni-
tude of our future work? Does it not
reveal to us the fact that we have only
made a small begining in this leaves-
of-autumn conception of our literature
work? Is it not time for us to seriously
consider the circulation of our small
missionary literature in quantities that
more resemble the scattered leaves of
autumn? D. W. REAVIS