and the Spanish people at Wichita
Falls, due to several books that Elder
Haynes sold to them in the fall. As 1
understand, one of the Spanish men
said that he was going to keep the Sab-
bath. That night we had a joint ses-
sion of the church and school board to
discuss the school work for the coming
year, and after a friendly discussion
which lasted till about 11:00 o’clock,
the board came to a decision to have
school next year and ask Miss Rand4ll
to take the school again. The school
increased in membership from about
fifteen last fall to twenty-two. Cer-
tainly a good record.
Upon my arrival at Wichita, I
learned that Elder Benton was to ar-
rive the next day, just a few hours
previous to leaving, so that gave us a
little time to counsel concerning the
meetings for Wichita Falls, which pos-
sibly are going on by the time this
reaches the readers. Certainly the
Lord has blessed our believers at Wich-
ita in spite of much sickness.
I soon left for Olney where Mrs.
Sadau had been waiting for me since
ten o’clock in the morning, and this
was 5:30 in the evening. Well, this
was a worse experience than 1 had on
my first visit to Olney. But the
‘‘Nash’ soon got us home over a
stretch of thirteen miles, where a good
supper was awaiting us. On account
of the rain, we could not have services
that night, and the bad weather spoiled
our plans for meetings with outsiders
for that week. But we had several
good meetings with our own people.
We are glad that Brother and Sister
Watson and family have joined the
little company at Olney and I am sure
that we can count on them to do their
share in the work.
The school has been a wonderfu
success and Miss Hooten will stay to
teach the school again next year. Bid-
ding the Olney folks adieu, I went via
Fort Werth to Valley View where I
spent the Sabbath. While having sev-
eral good meetings with the church, we
also had a meeting of the patrons of
the school and with the officers of the
Young People’s Society.
The patrons laid definite plans for
the coming school year. We trust that
the Lord may bless them as they are
planning for the education of their
children. And I am sure ‘that through
the little meeting with the Young
People’s officers, we will have better
cooperation and a more prosperous so-
ciety under the leadership of Brother
John Schmidt. The young people were
just preparing a musical program to be
SOUTHWESTERN UNION RECORD
given at their district school house for
the benefit of the community. Valley
View church is especially blessed with
musical talent, along vocal lines. 1 like
this spirit of our missionary volunteers.
I am glad for the spirit of cooperation
that T find among our believers. Cer-
tainly in unity there is strength.
A. F. RUF.
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‘NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE SAB-
BATH SCHOOL REPORT FOR
FIRST QUARTER 1927.
~ Name of
church or Member- Honor ‘S.!S. Off. cap
company ship Cards re- Per
ceived
Olney ......... 2 1 $ 42.26 1.62
Graham ..... 3 3 6304 1.61
Corsicana, W 3 2 46 00 1.17
Lufkin ......... 6 65.17 83
Cedar Grove 6 54.18 69
Sherman ...... 20 - 100.39 .38
Dallas, Sp. 5 - 21.64 .33
Cleburne 12 . 4983 31
Denison .... 15 3 59.68  .30
Athens ...... 3 . 11.70.30
Paris ....... 3 2 11.88 30
Ft. Worth 109 15 436.61 .30
Corsicana, C. 20 1 57.37 .22
Wichita F. 38 . 111.42 22
Beulah ....... 16 5 4503 .21
‘Waco, C.-.. 15 2 39.30.20
‘Henrietta .. ‘6 1485 19
Avinger .... 9 21.95 18
Waco .......... 56 3 129.34 17
Berea ........ 135 85 300.60 17
Dalworth .... 65 1 138.01 .16
Gainegville .. 12 2451 15
Ft. Worth, S. 5 10.08 15
Dallas ........ 286 19 530.04 14
Keene ....... 329 50 634.54 14
Salmon ...... 10 1 17.95 13
New Hope .. 21 30.43 11
Valley View 59 12 76.75  .10
Clifton... 6 755 09
Je.erson, C. 7 8.58 .09
Mosier Valley 7 6.02 .06
Myrtle Spr. 30 1857. .05
Hillsboro .... 18 9.92 04
Mit. Pleasant 7 3.96 .04
. Douglass .... 22 1054 .03
The above report shows the record
made by our Sabbath Schools for the
quarter of 1927. You will notice
twelve schools reached the goal of
thirty cents per week per church mlem-
ber. Of this number, nine raised one
dollar per miember on the Thirteenth
Sabbath. We are going to issue Pen-
nants at the close of this quarter for
the schools that make the goal of
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thirty cents per week per member and
one dollar for the Thirteenth Sabbath,
and we hope many more will reach
this amount.
"We want to make special mention
of the Honor Cards issued for the dif-
erent schools. You will notice some dig
not receive any. Let's remember that
spiritual food is just as essential for
the development of strong Christian
: characters, ag temporal food is for the
building of strong physical bodies.
Don’t neglect the daily study of the
Sabbath School lessons.
SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Nadine Harris, Secretary
OKLAHOMA CONFERENCE
Box 1077
Oklahoma. City, Okla.
President—Elder W. M. Clark
Sec’'v-Treas.—Lowell Estes
Oklahoma Book and Bible House:
Sec‘y-Treas.—B. E. Bridwell
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STATEMENT OF THE SIXTY-
CENTS-A-WEEK FUND
‘For three months ending Mar. 28, 1927
Amount Am't Per
Quota Received Short cent
16,036.80 5,194 98 10,841.82
663.00 145.74 517.26
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OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES.
Okla.
/Okla. C.
Has the Big Week begun for you?
Elder H. J. Winter made the office
a call as he was passing through on
his way to California or rather back to
his mission field.
A letter from Brother C. C. Voth
tells of a good interest among the Ger-
man-speaking people at Corn. He has
been doing Bible work and holding cot-
tage meetings. He has been unable to
secure a place for public meetings.
Brother Estes spent Sabbath at
Stroud with the home folks, bringing
his wife, who has spent several days
there, back with him.
Brother Gant spent the week-end at
Enid and is remaining in that part of
the state for several days in the inter-
est of school work.
Elder Beddoe and wife went to
Shawnee for the week-end enlisting
the church at that place in the Big
Week work.
Elder E. T. Wilson, president of the
Texico Conference, made the office a
visit between trains Tuesday, returning