6 SOUTHWESTERN UNION RECORD
As a general rule the last six
months of the year are less taxing on
our expense budget and the income
usually a little better. If that is the
ease this year, we hope to show at
the close of the year an operating
gain of somewhere between seventeen
hundred and two thousand dollars.
This, of course, means that the in-
debtedness of the conference has been
reduced again by that amount. This
gain has been made possible through
the faithful support of the entire con-
stituency. Some of our members have
been donating quite liberally toward
the conference operating, Doctor
Herbert Westphal who started pract-
ice in the lower Rio Grande valley a
vear ago last September, made a dona-
tion of five hundred dollars toward
evangelism, which goes into our oper-
ating. Others have made good offer-
ings. We appreciate this greatly, and
wish to thank our faithful people for
their loyal support in our endeavors
to operate the conference on the ba-
sis of getting out of debt and bring-
ing more people into the truth.
G. F. EIcHMAN.
Goose Creek Effort
“CHURCHANITY?” instead of
Christianity seems to prevail in this
part of the field; but in spite of the
great amount of prejudice here in
Goose Creek and surrounding towns,
about twenty or more new people have
taken their stand for the truth, and
will soon be ready for baptism and
church membership. For several
weeks a number have given up their
tobacco and have attended services
here on Sabbath.
Studies have been given to others,
who we hope and pray soon will de-
cide to accept all the truth and be-
come part of the true church.
The daily newspaper here has print-
ed reports of our meetings, thereby
aiding in getting the truth before the
people.
Those assisting Elder Jere D. Smith
in this effort are: Miss Addie Mae
Kalar, Miss Jerrine Gage and the
writer.
Our closing meeting will be July 21.
We solicit your prayers.
R. E. LYNN.
News Notes
G. F. Eichman and J. A. Tucker
spent Thursday and Friday at Salmon
and Douglass in the interest of the
work in general,
Dr. G. A. King was in Fort Worth
on a business trip last Thursday. At
the present time Doctor King is lo-
cated at Flatonia.
Among those who visited the con-
ference office last week were Prof. R.
L. Carr and Mrs. Dora Parkins and
daughter Del Laverne, of Keene.
Roy Cole of Jefferson spent one day
at the conference office replacing the
ceiling in one of the office rooms.
The Book and ‘Bible House workers
are busy getting plans laid for a
good display of our books at camp-
meeting. They are expecting to have
a larger display of books than we have
had for a long time. Come prepared
to take advantage of the special camp-
meeting discounts.
G. F. Eichman spent Sabbath at
Orange, where a new church was or-
ganized.
G. A. Schwerin organized a new
Mexican church at Mercedes on Sab-
bath, July 6. This church was organ-
ized with a charter membership of 39.
Miss Nadine Harris, our depart-
mental office secretary, returned to
her duties Sunday morning after
spending a week of her vacation with
her sister and family in New Hope.
R. P. Montgomery, President
T. R. Gardner, Secretary
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Another Call to Campmeeting
IF YOU fail to attend campmeet-
ing this year you will miss a great
spiritual blessing. We are counting
strongly on a great spiritual feast
at Roswell. You should be there.
We need you. You need the camp-
meeting. Will you come?
People over the conference are writ-
ing in inquiring about the meeting,
and are looking forward to it.
Brethren, we are living in serious
times. The end is rapidly drawing
near. You and I need to prepare for
it. We should come aside for prayer,
study, and devotion, in order that we
might get ready to meet the Lord.
Plan now, pray that the Lord will
open the way before you. Bring the
young people and children. Good help
will be provided for them.
R. P. MONTGOMERY.
On Top of the World
TWO weeks ago Brother Chas. Van
Dusen and I spent two days working
in the lumber camps out in the mount-
ains west of Albuquerque. We took
orders on both sides of the Contin-
ental Divide. One was taken right
on top—on the “backbone of Amer-
ica.” We felt on “top of the world”
in more ways than one.
Going down the Western Slope we
took orders so fast that we continued
our work until others were in bed.
While looking for a place to spend the
night we noticed a campfire out in
the hills. Following its light we came
to a group of lumbermen who were
gathered there to overcome the chill
of the mountain air. Brother Van
Dusen accepted the courteous offer of
the only piece of furniture in camp—
a board bench, and mastered the
sination by demonstrating his work
in the flickering light of the camp-
fire and taking an order for Bible
Readings in the best binding. Our
total sales for that day’s work was
$81.75. Surely the Lord is blessing
the work.
In looking over the records of the
past we find some very interesting
things. The month of June showed
the largest sales for any one month
in the past five years. Our delivery
was also the best June delivery in the
same length of time. Already this
year the colporteurs have sold nearly
as many books as were sold during
any entire year since 1930. The
deliveries for the first half of this
year show a 120 per cent gain over
the same period of last year.
If you feel impressed to help sound
the last warning message will you
not answer the call now?
F. B. MOORE.
Thirteen Baptized at Plainview
ON SABBATH morning July 6, the
first communion service was held in
the Plainview church with the new
believers from Floydada in attend-
ance. This was the first meeting to-
gether of the two groups of believers.
In the afternoon a baptismal serv-
ice was held in one of the Baptist
churches, at which time thirteen new
believers were received into the Plain-
view church. Three entire families
were represented in this new group. A
sweet spirit of Christian fellowship
prevailed through both services, and
the occasion will long be remembered
by all who were present. The believ-
ers in Plainview and Floydada feel
deeply the need of the prayers of those
who make up the great family of
God’s people in the Southwestern
Union Conference.
C. A, WALGREN,