Southwestern Union Record
Official Organ of the Southwestern Union Conference oj Seventh-day Adventists.
VOLUME XXVI
KEENE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JUNE 21. 1927
NO 25
UNION NEWS NOTES
visiting the/^T'~<on and the surround- 
BETTER HOMES IN AMERICA
Elder Pohle is spending a few days 
in the office after having 
been 
at 
Keene for the first week of the Sum­
mer School.
Elder A. F. Harrison will leave to­
morrow for the colporteur field to put 
in the Big Week with the colporteurs.
Elder Eichman is taking his vacation 
next week and the week following. 
He gave a very interesting discourse 
in the Oklahoma City church Sabbath. 
June 11.
Elder Van Kirk has been 
resting 
from public speaking for several weeks 
on the order of the doctor, on account 
of of a bad throat. 
He is again ready 
for public work.
Mr. Smith is auditing the books of the 
Oklahoma Book and Bible House today. 
He will audit the conference books af­
ter completing the Book and 
Bible 
House books.
Camp meetings are soon coming on 
in this field and plans are being made 
in the local conferences for especially 
interesting and helpful meetings. 
All 
of our brethren and sisters should be 
making plans to attend.
Word comes from various parts of 
of the field of interesting experiences 
in connection with 
the 
evangelistic 
meetings being held in the various con­
ferences. 
Brethren, let us remember 
our officers and the various workers 
daily before the throne of grace.
Brother Orno Follett, who for eight 
years was in charge of the Lake Grove 
Indian Mission near Thoreau, 
New 
Mexico, but who was obliged «to leave 
the field on account of his health, is
ing Indian^, 
a month. 
We 
appreciated as he can 
jo language.
•ects to stay about 
yisit is much
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MAY COLPORTEUR REPORT
Well, here comes another 
report. 
It shows a heavy loss in orders over 
May of last year, but a gain of over 
$800.00 in books delivered. 
Well, 
I 
guess all the colporteurs are now right 
in the midst of the June Big Week. 
I 
expect to start out in the morning, if 
nothing happens.
I have been bothered about our July 
Big Week on account of camp meet­
ings, but now that South Texas has de­
cided not to hold a camp meeting this 
year I think it will be best to set the 
date July 11 to 16, and that Arkansas 
set their Big Week July 4 to 9 on ac­
count o‘f their camp meeting beginning 
July 14. 
I trust this will be all right.
You will see North Texas taking the 
lead for May, and they have sent out 
the signal warning to look out for June.
I rather think it will pay us to keep 
our eyes open the way things are mov­
ing off.
There is one thing I 
am 
pleased 
about, and that is, while 
we 
have 
dropped off In orders taken, up to date, 
we are $1,500 00 ahead of the amount 
of books delivered last year. 
If we 
can just keep that .up the remainder of 
the year we will make a gain in spite 
of the floods and the drouth.
May the Lord help us to push to the 
front is my prayer.
A. F. HARRISON.
Look at our colporteur reports.
Washington, D. C. —The tremendous 
post-war expansion of suburban areas 
with detached homes, according to Sec­
retary Hoover, is one of the finest 
achievements of the present period of 
increasing national prosperity and 
a 
tribute to the thrift of millions of our 
people and to their will to own their 
homes and improve their living condi­
tions. 
This statement is contained in 
an article in the April issue of Child 
Welfare Magazine. 
Mr. Hoover’s ar­
ticle begins the series in that issue of 
the magazine .which is devoted to the 
subject of home in connection with the 
sixth nation-wide Better Homes cam­
paign.
Better Homes Week, April 24 
to 
May 1 marked the culmination through­
out the United States of educational 
programs in more than 3,500 communi­
ties, which had as their object the im­
provement of housing conditions and 
the attainment of a more wholesome 
home life. 
These programs were spon­
sored by Better Homes in America, the 
educational organization of which Mr. 
Hoover is President. 
The 
National 
Congress of Parents and Teachers is co­
operating actively in this campaign.
Secretary Hoover’s statement fol­
lows:
“The tremendous post-war expansion 
of suburban areas with detached houses 
which the development of the auto­
mobile has helped to make possible, is 
one of the finest achievements of the 
present period of increasing national 
prosperity. 
It is a tribute to the thrift 
of millions of our people and to their 
will to own their homes and improve 
their living conditions.
‘ ‘This current is in the right direction
Totals
REPORT OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNION CONFERENCE FOR MAY, 1927
State
N. Texas 
Oklahoma 
S. Texas 
Arkansas 
Texico
Agts. Hrs.
15 
776
10 ¡1714 
9 
789
9 
798
Ords.
667
441
'262
|162
Value
2840.75
2190.50
1094.00
694.00
Helps
175.20
287.10 •
231.10 
166.25
8 
454 
127
541.50; 
120.40
Bibles
19.85
192.70
36.00
71.00 
45.50
Maga.
113.25
Totals
3035.80
2783.55
1361.10
931.25
707.40
Bib. D. Maga. D. Bk. D. Value D.
96 
474.90
,49.25
62.00
72.00
206
183
121
105
132495
1216.85
631.85
527.60
51 :4531 
1859 
7360.75 
980.05
365.05. 
113.25 
8819.10 
183.25 
711 
4176.15
A. 
F. HARRISON, Union Field Miss. Sec’y.
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but it is not broad enough nor strong 
enough. 
We have only to survey the 
living conditions of American families 
as a whole, and to observe some of the 
new construction that is not creditable, 
to see that a far greater task still lies 
ahead.
“If our standards of housing are not 
to lag behind our improving standing in 
the matter of food, clothing, education 
and recreation, we must count first of 
all on the energy and resourcefulness 
of individual families which determine 
to own their homes and have the char­
acter and ability to save up the amount 
of a first payment. 
For the demand 
for attractive, livable homes from fam­
ilies who can make a substantial first 
payment is the most dependable force 
to insure the building of the right kind 
of homes.
“This demand can be encouraged and 
made more effective from an economic 
point of view, by improved home financ­
ing facilities, especially in the field of 
second mortgages, by increasing efficien­
cy within the construction industries, 
by improved layout of new residential 
areas, and by the cooperation of local 
governments in assuring orderly civic 
development through good city planning 
and zoning.
“Rising standards for owned homes 
should tend to raise the standards of 
rented homes which we may consider 
auxilliary. 
We have ample evidence 
that two great reliance on rented dwell­
ings tends in the modern 
industrial 
state to inadequate housing and the de­
mand for state participation in housing.
“The large home building program of 
the past five years has undoubtedly 
been instrumental in the maintenance 
of stable employment and prosperous 
business conditions, and a continued de­
mand for homes is always a healthy 
factor in the general business situation.
“When a family or a state or a na­
tion does not pay enough attention to 
the future consequences of its acts it 
is in peril. 
Looking to the future is a 
point of view which permeates a man’s 
whole attitude and outlook on 
life. 
The home owner or the man who sees 
home ownership just ahead inevitably 
has that point of view strengthened. 
While the home owner’s judgment as 
to the future may be warped in some 
cases, at some times, and there is al­
ways a need for liberality and thought 
and wisdom in meeting changed condi­
tions, surely the greater the number of 
home owners, the greater confidence 
we may place in the future of our 
pountry.
“Certain clear obligations rest upon
us of the present generation. 
It be­
hooves parents to achieve home owner­
ship so far as they are able. 
We all 
ought to promote better facilities for 
the use of others who are striving to 
own their homes. Parents and teachers 
can both help inculcate in children an 
appreciation of the value 
of 
home 
ownership and knowledge of the rela­
tion of thrift to family financing and 
home ownership. 
There can 
be no 
sounder guarantee of the stability and 
progress of our nation than that in 
every child there should be implanted 
the ideal of an owned home as the cen­
ter of happy family life and that each 
child should have some instruction in 
the business problems that confront the 
family. 
The cooperation given to the 
Better Homes in America movement by 
parent-teachers associations is one con­
crete manifestation of the constructive 
forces that may mobilize our efforts. 
It is a movement with a message of 
cheer. ”
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ARKANSAS CONFERENCE 
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1215 Marshall St. 
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Little Rock, Ark. 
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Sec’y-Treas.—L. J. Black 
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Arkansas Tract Society: 
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Sec'y-Treas.—L. i. Black 
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STATEMENT OF 60«-A-WBEK 
FlJND
For four months ending April 30, 1927 
Amount Am*t :Per 
Quota Received Short cent 
Ark 
5,637.60 
1,937.82 
3,654.78
Ark. C. 
747.00 
268.48 
478.52
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that there will 
be called a special session of the con­
ference of Arkansas, to be held in con­
nection with the,camp meeting at Mal­
vern, Arkansas, July 14-24. 
The first 
meeting will be at 9:00 A. M. July 15, 
1927. 
Each church in the conference 
is entitled to one delegate for its or­
ganization 
and one 
additional dele­
gate for each fifteen members or major 
portion thereof. 
Reports of 
officers 
will be read and such other business 
transacted . as may come before 
the 
delegates.
R. P. MONTGOMERY, President,
L. J. BLACK, Secretary.
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the Ark­
ansas Conference Association of Sev­
enth-day Adventists will be called to 
convene at Malvern at the Seventh-day 
Adventist camp 9:30 A. M. July 18, 
1927, 
This is for the purpose of trans­
acting such business as may come be­
fore the Association. 
Delegates to the 
Conference are delegates of the Asso 
ciation.
R. P. MONTGOMERY, President,
L. J. BLACK, Secretary.
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♦ NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE 4 
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1800 Live Oak Street 
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Dallas, 
Texas 
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President—Elder Roy L. Benton j
J Sec’y-Treas.—6. G. Ortner 
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North Tex. Book and Bible House 
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Sec'y-Treas.—C. G. Ortner 
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STATEMENT OF THE SIXTY- 
CENTS-A-WEEK FUND
For four months ending April 30, 1927 
Amount Am’t 
Per 
Quota Received Short cent 
N. Texas 12,393.40 
4,264.56 
8,133.84
N. Tex. C. 711.00 
242.94 
468.06
NORTH TEXAS NEWS NOTES
Mr. Jim Yates, of Ardmore, called at 
the office recently. 
Mr. Yates plans 
to move, with his family, to Keene in 
the near future.
Brother Ruf spoke to 
the 
Dallas 
church Sabbath, June 11. 
The young 
people were glad also to have him speak 
to them in the afternoon.
Elder AcMoody and his family were 
seen in Dallas this past week. 
The 
mid-week prayer meeting lesson was 
conducted by this, a former pastor of 
the Dallas church, where they 
met 
many of their old friends.
Miss Nadine Harris, our conference 
Sabbath school secretary, conducted a 
Sabb ath school rally at Wichita Falls 
Sabbath, June 11. 
From there Miss 
Harris continued her trip to Amarillo 
where she will visit her sister.
We wcjjild be glad to have our people 
take a look at our colporteurs’ reports. 
We feel our boys are doing excellently. 
Kindly note Mr. Phillip’s fifty-seven 
hour record. 
Brother Norman gave his 
time last week to the boys in the ex­
treme southeast part of the conference.
Elder Yates and Professor Gunderson 
of Jefferson, spent several days at the 
office in counsel with the president in 
working out their program for holding 
meetings before camp meeting. 
One 
of the high points in the program is to 
hold a short but intensive effort at Av- 
inger.
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PAGE THREE
Elder H. J. Miller, who Is conducting 
an effort at Waco for the colored peo­
ple, was at the office to confer with the 
president in regard to the increasing 
interest at Waco. 
It is quite evident 
that the old church building will not 
provide sufficient room for the new an­
ticipated congregation.
The thirteenth Sabbath overflow of 
the Sabbath school collection is to be 
used for the extension of our mission 
work among the many Indian tribes of 
Central America. 
Let us show 
our 
love and faith in the third angel’s mes­
sage by responding liberally to the calls 
which come to us from the mission 
fields.
A brother, who has not as yet be­
come a member of the Seventh-day Ad­
ventist church, who came 
into 
the 
knowledge of this truth through the 
reading of our literature, ordered twen­
ty-three Crisis books to sell among his 
neighbors and friends. 
We hope some 
of our people who have known this 
truth for years will be inspired to fol­
low this good example.
It was after a great deal of persua­
sion on the part of our worthy presi­
dent that he secured a permit from 
Miss Ruth Elizabeth, who recently ar­
rived in Keene to make her permanent 
home at the home of the above men­
tioned, to come to Dallas and spend 
several days in the office, and visit 
with our believers in Denison and Sher­
man over Sabbath.
Information comes to us from 
all 
parts of the conference, from our good 
colporteurs as well as from lay mem­
bers, that crops in north Texas were 
made almost sure through a good rain. 
Now is the time for colporteurs to be 
putting in from fifty to sixty hours per 
week in taking orders. 
Prospects for 
the book work are most encouraging.
A letter: 
“Some four years ago I 
received some copies of a 
pamphlet 
‘The Papacy,’ by Doctor David Paul­
son, for which the bill was misplaced 
and overlooked while moving and for­
gotten for a long time. 
It was forty 
cents,which I enclose with interest.” 
Do you like the spirit of this letter? 
We do. 
At times we fear that some 
of our people have lost their bills who 
have not been moving. 
If you 
lost 
your bill feel free to ask for another.
A CALL FOR HELP, IN CAMP 
MEETING’Mlj SIC
In order to make the meetings 
. attractive for outside people and
pleasant for us all we desire to have an 
orchestra composed of volunteers from 
all parts of the conference. 
Brother
O. W. Tucker, of Southwestern Junior 
College business office, has kindly con­
sented to help us and get the orchestra 
members together and lead out in the 
music; so we would like for all who 
plan to come to camp meeting that 
play the violin, clarinet, 
saxaphone. 
cornet or trombone, and that will be 
willing to be real missionary volunteers 
and help us make thi» a better camp 
meeting with better music, to let us 
know what you will play and when you 
expect to come.
The opening 
meeting will 
be on 
Thursday night July 28. 
Please write 
to Professor 0. W. Tucker, Keene, 
Texas, giving him the above desired 
information. 
We hope for a 
large 
number of responses to this call right 
away so full plans may be made.
R. L. BENTON.
WICHITA FALLS MEETING.
Our seven 
week 
public 
effort in 
Wichita is over. 
Some splendid results 
are visible. 
A number of fine people 
are deeply interested and declare their 
intention to unite with this people. 
We 
now have morfe than twenty persons on 
our list who are seriously considering 
uniting with the church. 
Some of this 
number are from among our young 
people. 
We shall organize our bap­
tismal class on the coming Sabbath, 
June 18.
One of the gratifying results of the 
meeting was to see our church mem­
bers revived by hearing 
anew 
this 
glorious three-fold message. 
Some of 
the sisters of our church have long been 
praying for their husbands to become 
interested in the truth. 
God gave an­
swer to these prayers. 
One husband
has publicly declared his intention of 
becoming one of this body, and another 
is deeply interested.
Our meetings 
began just 
as the 
greatest union revival ever held in this 
city came to a close. 
Thousands of 
dollars were spent by the churches in 
erecting a great tabernacle, in prop­
aganda, choir, soloists and an evange­
list of international fame. 
This great 
revival continued, for six weeks. 
It 
was declared by 
the 
evangelist 
in 
charge a near failure. 
Then began our 
meetings. 
We had little money for 
propaganda. 
But we announced well 
our meetings. 
We launched out our 
faith, and although the audience was 
not large at any time, a very interested 
class of people came. 
Some hardly
missed a single lecture. 
We believe 
God sent some of those at least who 
are called to be heirs of salvation. 
We 
are staying hard on the track of all 
those interested ones. 
We have faith 
to believe that the money spent will be 
returned in precious souls.
We were successful in getting nice 
reports through the papers. 
The larg­
est daily only failing one time to print 
our excerpts of ,the lectures. 
Thous­
ands were thus able to read the mes­
sage which they did not hear orally.
The method of service was different 
to the usual preaching program. 
Prof­
essor Ruf opened the meeting by giving 
a fifteen to twenty minute Bible study, 
calling on the audience to read from 
their own Bibles more than a score of 
texts on the topic of the night. 
Then 
I followed with a thirty minute lecture 
in which the plain teachings of the 
Holy 
Scriptures 
were 
emphasized. 
This gripped our audience as I have 
rarely seen an audience interested.
We have some fine colored and Mexi­
can people very much interested in the 
truth. 
We hope to have an effort here 
for the Mexicans and the colored folk. 
Pray for Wichita Falls and the North 
Western district.
JOHN D. HAYNES.
A WEDGE OF GOLD AND A 
BABYLONISH GARMENT
Although many centuries have passed 
since the people of God erected a stone 
pile over the body of Achan because he 
took a golden wedge and a Babylonish 
garment, which he was told not to 
take, yet today we find creeping in 
among our good people the same covet­
ous desire for gold in its various forms 
and garments that, if not Babylonish, 
are certainly out of place in the camp 
of Israel.
When I came into this message it 
was made clear to me that God did not 
expect Seventh-day Adventists to wear 
gold for adornment. 
I came out of 
the world, where I had been used to 
wearing gold rings and other gold or­
namentations, and yet, somehow, 
I 
was impressed with the propriety of 
God’s people, believing this message, 
to take off their gold adornment, which 
I did. 
Although I thought a great deal 
of my large gold band ring, I found 
real pleasure in taking it off and plac­
ing it in the contribution basket for 
missions. 
I supposed at that time that 
every Seventh-day Adventist accepted 
the Bible teaching on 
this 
matter. 
Today, I am convinced that many of 
our people do not accept the 
Bible
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teaching on the matter of adornment 
and dress. 
My brethren, I 
do not 
know what the outcome will be; but I 
fear, unless there is a change, that 
many are going to be enticed into the 
world, and consequently into the snares 
of Satan, and be lost in the day of de­
struction.
As a gospel minister, I have always 
made it my practice never to recom­
mend for church membership any indi­
vidual wearing gold for adornment. 
I 
do not expect to change on this point. It 
makes me feel sad when our workers 
are careless on this point, for I know 
it means confusion for some of us to 
say that candidates for membership 
must conform to the Bible teachings be­
fore we recommend them, and another 
to recommend them first, and hope that 
they may conform afterward.
I find since coming to this conference 
that quite a number of our sisters wear 
gold rings. 
When a conversation is 
started concerning it, they hide behind 
the fact that it is a wedding ring. 
I 
wonder sometimes how they get the 
idea that that makes any difference in 
the sight of God. 
For the benefit of 
those who think that it is necessary or 
expedient to wear a wedding ring, I 
quote herewith a portion of a testimony 
found on page one-hundred-eighty in 
Testimonies to Ministers:
“Some have had a burden in regard 
to the wearing of a marriage ring, 
feeling that the wives of Our ministers 
should conform to this custom. 
All 
this is unnecessary. 
Let the minis­
ter’s wives have the golden link which 
binds their souls to Jesus Christ, a pure 
and holy character, the true love and 
-meekness and godliness that are the 
fruit borne upon the Christian tree, 
and their influence will be secure any­
where. 
The fact that a disregard of 
the custom occasions remark, is 
no 
good reason for adopting it. 
Ameri­
cans can make their position under­
stood by plainly stating that the cus­
tom is not regarded as obligatory in 
our country. 
We need not wear the 
sign, for we are not untrue to our 
marriage vow, and the wearing of the 
ring would be no evidence 
that we 
were true. 
I feel deeply over 
this 
leavening process which seems to be 
going on among us, in the conformity 
to custom and fashion. 
Not one penny 
should be spent for a circlet of gold to 
testify that we are married.”
Then I would call attention to the 
fact that God sent this people a mes­
sage at one time regarding the matter 
of wearing short or long dresses. 
I 
would not like to see our people become
fanatical, or even extremists, but I 
perceive our sisters have become ex­
tremists when they have adopted the 
ultra short dress. 
I know, from my 
own observation and my contact with 
other men, that there is a recognition 
on the part of men that the modern 
skirt is immodest. 
I feel that every 
conference worker ought to be under­
stood by our brethren as being decided­
ly against immodesty. 
I believe, too, 
that he ought to be decidedly against 
the wearing of those things which are 
forbidden for adornment. 
Otherwise, 
my brethren, where will the church 
drift to? Where is the Bible simplicity 
that characterized this movement at 
its beginning? 
Is there not a danger 
that we are losing this simplicity? 
I 
think we are fast departing from it in 
many places on many questions.
Perhaps some may feel that I am an 
alarmist. 
Even though this may be so, 
the Scriptures indicate there comes a 
time when an alarm should be sounded. 
I desire that in this article. 
I quote 
again from the devinely inspired writ­
ings that have led God’s people in this 
movement so successfully in the years 
past. 
I quote from Volume four of the 
Testimonies, page 647.
“Fashion is deteriorating the church, 
and eating out the spirituality of our 
people. 
Obedience to fashion is per­
vading 
our 
Seventh-day 
Adventist 
churches, and is doing more than any 
other power to separate our people 
from God ”
My brethren and sisters, shall we 
not return from our backsliding to that 
path of Christian simplicity that is 
laid out for the people of God to walk 
in? 
Shall we not renounce the things 
of the world and be truly converted to 
God, and to His glorious message that 
is to prepare people for translation? 
Let the money that is being wasted in 
an effort to keep up with the god of 
fashion, be placed in the contribution 
box for missions. 
Let the tithe be 're­
turned to the storehouse. 
Let 
the 
time that is wasted be used inj’mission- 
ary work. 
Let the strength that is be­
ing frittered away be given to the work 
God. 
And thus pave the way for the of 
speedy accomplishment of the 
time 
when the Spirit of God will be poured 
on this people as has never been upon 
any other people.
Yours with Christian love,
R. L. BENTON.
A LETTER
On account of my wife’s health I have
not been able to do much work of late. 
We spent four weeks in Doctor Gaede’s 
Sanitarium, at Weatherford, Oklaho­
ma. 
We were gone six weeks in all, 
part of which we were water bound. One 
Sabbath I spent with the company near 
Snyder, Oklahoma. 
Of course I did 
some work in Weatherford with litera­
ture, and preached a few times 
on 
Sabbath. 
The last Sabbath before we 
came home was spent with the Binger, 
Oklahoma, church. 
I was surely glad 
to be with this company again. 
Six­
teen years ago I had the privilege of 
holding several meetings in and around 
Binger which resulted in the organiza­
tion of this church. 
Since that time 
many changes have come, some have 
moved away, others have come 
in, 
some are dead, others have left the 
faith, but I was glad to find the majori­
ty of the same old familiar faces who 
are still pressing on to receive the re­
ward at the end of the journey. 
Then 
there were those who were children 
then, now grown young people. 
May 
God present these, and all who are now 
with our people there, unbroken fami­
lies in His heavenly kingdom.
We reached home just as the college 
year was closing, and just as the Sab­
bath closed we were surely glad to see 
Bessie who has been two years 
in 
training at St. 
Helena 
Sanitarium. 
She will be here a few weeks and give 
her mother treatments this summer be­
fore returning to finish her 
course. 
Mabel is also here for awhile, but all 
the boys have gone; two to east Texas 
to canvass and one to work in Fort 
Worth.
Wife is much better than she was but 
is still in very poor health. 
Some have 
written, asking me to visit them and 
hold meetings, but at present it does 
not seem possible to do so. 
We do aik 
all our friends in the faith to pray that 
the Lord may see fit to bless us with 
good health and vigor and ability to 
work for Him. 
The time is drawing to 
a close. 
My earnest desire is to have 
a’part in the work as it closes.
I. A. CRANE.
NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE OF 
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
Notice is hereby given that there 
will convene a special' session of the 
North Texas Conference of Seventh- 
day Adventists in connection with the 
camp meeting at Keene, Texas, July 
28 to August 7. 
The first meeting 
will he called at 9:30 A. M., July 31, 
1927. 
The purpose of this special
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session will be to receive reports of 
the officers, and for the transaction of 
such other business as may properly 
come before the delegates.
Each church in the conference is 
entitled to one delegate for its or- 
gaization, and one additional delegate 
for each fifteen members or major 
portion thereof.
Signed,
ROY L. BENTON, President,
C. G. ORTNER, Secretary.
TEXAS CONFERENCE ASSOCIA­
TION OF SEVENTH-DAY 
ADVENTISTS
Notice is hereby given that the Tex­
as Conference Association of Seventh- 
day Adventists will meet In special 
session during the Seventh-day Ad­
ventists’ camp meeting, which is to be 
held at Keene, Texas, July 28 to Aug­
ust 7, 1927. 
The first meeting will 
convene at 10:15 A. M., Sunday, July 
31, 1927. 
The purpose of this meet­
ing is to receive reports of the officers 
of the Association, and to transact 
any other business which may prop­
erly come before tbe delegates. 
Tte 
delegates of the North Texas Confer­
ence are also delegates-of the Texas 
Conference Association.
Signed,
ROT L. BENTON, President,
C. G. ORTNER, Secretary.
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OKLAHOMA CONFERENCE
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Box 1077
4
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Oklahoma City, Okla.
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President—Elder W. M. Clark
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Sec’v-Trcas.—Lowell Estes
4
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Oklahoma Book and Bible House:
4
4
Sec'y-Treas.—B. E._ Brldwell
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STATEMENT OF THE SIXTY- 
CENTS-A-WEEK FUND
For four months ending April 30, 1927 
Amount Ain’t Per 
Quota Received Short cent 
Okla. 
22,204.80 7,821.31 14,383.49
Okla. C. 
918.00 
274.38 
643.62
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
Brethren Gant, Dart and Riffel spent 
last Sabbath with the Cushing company, 
at which time twelve were baptized. 
Plans were also laid at this time for a 
•church school for the coming year.
Elder Clark spent the week-end at 
the Kansas camp meeting, at the same 
time taking advantage of the opportun­
ity to visit relatives before returning 
to the office.
Brethren L. H. Robinson, 
Clinton 
Woodland and Richard Fisher, three of 
our colporteurs, have recently made 
calls at the office.
Brother Aitken and family, of Binger, 
called at the office one day this week 
while in the city on business.
Although the weather has been cold 
and rainy the meetings at Capitol Hill 
are being quite well attended. A num­
ber of faces are being seen at practically 
every meeting.
Miss Olivia Uhrig has been spending 
a couple of weeks with her sister who 
is one of the conference stenographers.
There are only two more Sabbaths in 
this quarter so if you have not ordered 
your supplies for the third qnarter, it 
is time to hurry your order in.
Brotker Riffel has been in the city 
the past few days making final arrange­
ments for sending out tents and equip­
ment for' the effort which Is soon to 
begin at Wayne.
Reports from Bristow indicate that 
the campaign there will be a successful 
one. Elder Fillman and Brother Fowler 
are in charge of this effort.
Brother G. W. Calloway made a short 
visit at the office to arrange for new 
territory, 
having 
just 
completed a 
ninety per cent delivery in the north­
west part of the state where there has 
been practically no moisture for the 
past twelve months. If this percentage 
of books can be delivered in a section 
that is so dry, why cannot others do as 
well where conditions are more favor­
able?
OBITUARY
COVER—Hulda Ruth Cover was born 
April 18, 1918, and died at Marshall, 
Oklahoma May 28, 1927. 
She suffered 
a great deal during the last year of her 
life, but in her suffering she gave evi­
dence of her genuine Christian experi­
ence.
Ruth was baptized at the Guthrie 
camp meeting in August, 1925, and fell 
asleep in full faith of a part in the first 
resurrection morning. 
She leaves to 
mourn her loss, her parents, three grand 
parents, and one great grandmother, 
and several uncles and 
aunts. 
The 
large crowd that filled the church where 
the services were held was evidence 
that she had a host of friends. 
The 
funeral was conducted by Prof. K. L.
Gant, assisted by the writer, and the 
little body was laid to rest awaiting 
the call of the Life-Giver.
B. E. BRIDWELL
CUSHING, OKLAHOMA.
The baptismal service at 
Cushing 
last Sabbath, June 11th, will long be 
remembered at Cushing. 
We were 
glad to have three of our ministering 
brethren with us, Elder Dart, Professor 
Gant and Brother Riffel, also Sister 
Riffel, all of whom rendered excellent 
service. 
We were also glad to welcome 
the entire company from Stroud and 
several others from Drumright.
It is needless to say that we had an 
interesting 
Sabbath. 
The 
eleven 
o’clock hour was given to the ordinan­
ces. 
This was a very impres'sive ser­
vice, especially to the new converts. 
One dear old brother who has been a 
member of the Christian church for 
forty-two years, in speaking of the 
ordinance of humility said it was the 
most solemn service he ever attended. 
He made his final decision to obey the 
truth last Sabbath, and being satisfied 
with his former baptism, he was taken 
into the church along with those who 
were baptized.
After eating 
prepared lunches we 
went to the Perry Lake and had the 
pleasure of seeing 
twelve 
precious 
souls led down into the watery grave 
to be buried with their Lord in bap­
tism. 
Such a scene gives one a little 
foretaste of the inexpressible joy that 
will be his in the kingdom when he 
meets there those for whom he has 
labored.
After the baptism we all returned to 
the hall, and Professor Gant gave a 
very timely discourse on the purpose 
and influence of our church schools, 
which resulted in definite plans being 
laid for a school here beginning next 
fall. 
The purchase of a suitable loca­
tion for a church and school building is 
also being considered, 
which makes 
our hearts rejoice. 
Coupled with the 
rejoicing is a deep sense of the weighty 
responsibility that is laid npon us.
We need the earnest prayers of our 
people that the blessing of God may 
attend our efforts. 
ABBIE DUNN.
We should educate the youth to help 
the youth; and as they seek to "do this 
work, they 
will gain an experience 
that will qualify them to become con­
secrated workers in a larger sphere. — 
Vol. 6, p. 115.
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SOUTHWESTERN UNION RECORD
SOUTH TEXAS CONFERENCE
917 South Presa St.
San Antonio, Texas 
President—Elder W. R. Elliott 
Sec’y-Treas.—J. S. McMullan 
South Texas Book and Bible 
Society:
Sec'y-Treas.—J. S. McMullan
statement of the sixty-
CENTS-A-WEEK FUND
For four months ending April 30, 1927 
Amount Am’t Per 
Quota Received Short cent 
S. Tex. 
8,683.20 
2,658.38 
6,024.82
S. Tex. C. 2,628.00 
1,097.69 
1,530.31
Important Notice!
On account of financial condition, the 
South Texas Conference Committee has 
decided to not hold a camp meeting 
this year. 
The committee made its de­
cision after the eonditions had been 
placed before 
all 
the churches and 
council arid advice received from them.
This notice is given to counteract the 
former camp meeting notice which has 
appeared in the Record, and that all 
our people, 
especially in the South 
Texas Conference, may know that we 
will not hold a camp meeting this year.
W. R. ELLIOTT, Pres.
J. S. McMULLEN, Sec’y.
TEXICO CONFERENCE
419 Rencher St.
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Clovis, New Mexico 
President—Elder E. T. Wilson 
Sec’y-Treas.—O. D. Slater 
Texlco Book and Bible House: 
Sec’y-Treas.—O. D.. Slater.
A CALL TO PRAYER
COLPORTEUR’S WEEKLY REPORT
NORTH TEXAS COLPORTEURS’ REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 11 
Name 
Bk Hrs. 
Ords. 
Value 
/Helps 
Total 
Del-
statement of the sixty-
CENTS-A-WEEK FUND
For four months ending April 30, 1927 
Amount Am’t 
Per 
Quota Received Short cent 
Texico 
5,281.20 
2,713.99 
2,567.21
Texico C. 
612.00 
270.36 
341.64
When the Son of Man was here upon 
earth, He spake a parable one day, in 
which He said, “Men ought always to 
pray, and not to faint,” 
and the apos­
tle, Paul admonished the brethren at 
Thessalonica to, “Pray without ceas­
ing”, and the writer is convinced that 
these orders given by our Great Cap­
tain, and the apostle to the gentiles are
J. D. Philips ........BR
57
39
238.50
14.00
'252.50
8.50
C. L. Grandon .......BR
53
25
147.50
5.00
J52.25
R. Cloninger .......BR
45
32
176.00
9.50
185.50
A. C. Cranfill .......BR
¡45
17
95.50
3.75
99.25
2.00
W. T. Harrison
....DR
;45
9
49.50
15.50
65.00
4.50
W. T. Tucker ....BML
44
....
25.25
25.25
5.00
R. F. Culpepper
....RJ
42
58
210.00
6.75
216.75
1.25
R. F. Culpepper
...RJ
42
48
160.00
1.75
161.75
Waldo Crane .......BR
.41
28
158.00
6.75
¡164.75
6.75
W,. T. Tucker ....BML
40
36.25
36.25
6.25
W. T. Tucker ...hml
40
28.25
28.25
7.75
West Smith .........OD
38
51
1209.25
9.50
218.75
81.75
Carl Moyers ........DR
31
12
66.00
12.25
78.25
1.00
Martin Pettey .......'BR
,34
20
114.00
1.75
115.75
Wesley Crane .....BR
30
17
109.50 ■
9.50
119.00
J. D. Wilburn BR-OD
24
10
52.00
,16.75
68.75
8.00
J. O. Conrad .........BR
15
3
16.50
1.50
18.00
R. E. Writaker
(14
56.75
Workers
15
168O
369
1802.25
203.75
2006.00
189.50
OKLAHOMA COLPORTEURS' REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 11, 1927
Name
Bk
Hrs.
Ords.
Value
¡Helps
Total
Del.
Arthur Burton .......BR
¡55
¡20
137.00 
'
6.00
143.00
Glenn Ross ...........DR
53
33‘
187.50
11.50
199.00
G. B. Boswell ..,...BFL
53
11
36.00
19.25
55.25
5.50
Chester Gteorgia....DR
51
37
208.50
9.00
217.50
G. B. Boswell ......BFL
50
20
69.00
48.25
Í117.25
G. W. Calloway 
R. E. Fisher ....
BR
47
276.42.
....DR
43
7
36.50
43.00
79.50
R. L. Laird -
.....BR
42
9
53.50
11.00
64.50
Chester Georgia
....DR
41
175.50
175.50
Wm|. A. Lee .........HP
34
5
37.00
37.00
J. F. Stringer
.....BR
30
3
16.50
1.25
17.75
........
Ewell Wlalker ......PPF
28
19
70.00
13.25
83.25
10.65
W. R. Barlett .......BR
26
4
24.00
24.00
W. S. Hicks .........BR
19
3
16.50
12.00
28.50
24.00
Carl Dyer 
............DR
18
5
29:50
13.00
42.50
11.50
Ewell Walker ,....PPF
15
4
15.50
2.50
18.50
2.60
Carl Greanz .........BR
14
8
54.00
1.00
55.00
L. H, Robinson
....BR
10
4
22.00
.50
22.50
J. B. Roth ...........BP
9
1
7.00
8.75
15.75
62.50
Workers 
16
623
193
1195.50
200.25
1396.25
393.17
TEXICO COLPORTEURS’ REPORT FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 11, 1927
Name
BkHrs.
Ords.
Value
Helps
Total
Del.
C. D. Colburn .......GC 108
30
¡164.50
86.70
251.20
87.10
Pearl Guinn ........RJ
26
9
27.00
39.50
66.50
3.75
Elleta Ellett
......RJ
25
9
29.00
29.00
G. M. Curry ..........RJ
24
6
14.00
6.00
20.00
1.75
J. C. Curry ........JRJ
24
10 '
62.50
12.25
74.75
1.25
Jaunita Ellett ......RJ
24
5
7.00
7.00
Magdelene Wirigh't RJ
24
6
18.00
6.75
24.75
C. L. Chastain ......iOD
19
4
15.50
3.00
18.50
3.00
C. H. Truitt ............GC
19
3
16.50
16.25
32.75
7.00
G. Sillivent ..........OD
18
6
21.00
13.25
34.50
4-.50
Mrs. Chastain
......RJ
16
3
21.00
-8.00
29.00
Workers
1
327
•si '
"369.00
192.70
' 589.70
111.10
GRAND TOTAL:
Workers
42
1630
¡ 653
3376.75
.-596.70
3991.95
.693:27
SOUTHWESTERN UNION RECORD
applicable for such a time as this.
Another institute has just closed in 
Lubbock, 
and going out from this 
weeks’ intensive training are a number 
of our boys and girls, children of Tex- 
ico’s Adventist parents. 
Should we 
not remember these dear young men 
and women at the Father’s throne each 
day, that as they go forth in this liter­
ature ministry, they may have heavenly 
companions to keep them in the way, 
and that 
success 
may attend their 
efforts, not only to do their bit in the 
spread of the message, but that they 
may be able to earn their way through 
school next year?
Then* too, on Sunday night, June 5, the 
first meeting was held in the tabernacle 
constructed by the Lubbock church, at 
which a very- gratifying audience at­
tended, and this, too, in spite of the 
fact that three other meetings 
are 
in session, one of which is within a 
stone’s throw of the tabernacle.
For a number of weeks, in fact sev­
eral months, the members of the Lub­
bock church have conducted a Present 
Truth campaign, visiting every home 
in the city every two weeks, and of 
course this has stirred many to inquire 
more about the message, which result­
ed in a strong plea from the church for 
a meeting to be held. 
The -committee 
asked the writer, Elder LaGrone, and 
Brother Herschel Martin to conduct 
this effort, and we are very anxious 
that the readers of the Record will 
remember us at the throne of mercy 
each day to the end that every honest 
soul may be sought out from the world 
in this city at this time.
So let us pray dear brethren, as we 
have never prayed before.
E. T. WILSON.
OUR CHURCH PAPER.
A most startling fact has been re­
vealed recently concerning the 
sub­
scription list of the Review. 
Elder A. 
E. Sanderson, a successful evangelist, 
who felt a great burden to see the 
church paper going into more homes of 
the Advent believers, was appointed to 
devote his entire time for- a while to 
increasing the subscription list of the 
“Good Old Review.”
Most encouraging results have at­
tended this arrangement, but a start­
ling fact has been brought to light viz: 
At least thirty per cent and perhaps 
forty per cent of the Adventist families 
of America are not readers of 
the 
Review and Herald and as a result a 
great loss has come 
to 
our 
work
through lack of cooperation in plans 
for the church, and a spiritual declen­
sion which is no small 
item 
to be 
reckoned with.
The writer is of the firm belief that 
the greatest stableizing agency among 
this people today is the Review, and he 
would not. think of missing-its messages 
of counsel, warning, and encourage­
ment any more than he would think of 
missing the Sabbath services.
Experience has long since taught us 
that it is not the price of the paper 
that accounts for this low subscription 
list, for the people get just about what 
they want these days, so the first thing 
necessary is to create a desire for the 
spiritual uplift coming from a perusal 
of our church paper, and it is to be 
hoped that each worker in the Texico 
Conference will share the burden with 
those elected to edit our 
paper, by 
urging every family of Seventh-day 
Adventists to become regular readers 
of this divinely-appointed messenger of 
truth.
The writer is also of the opinion that 
if the bread winners of all the Adven­
tist 
families 
read the Review each 
week, there would not be such a thing 
as a non-tithe-paying family among us; 
for surely the hearts of all would be so 
stirred with the rapid closing work in 
the earth, there would be no temptation 
strong enough to keep one from known 
duty. 
Our Motto, “Every Seventh-day 
Adventist in Texico a reader of the 
Review.” 
E. T. WILSON.
PLANS FOR NEW CHURCHES AND 
SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN TEXICO
In several places in the Texico Con­
ference, plans are on foot for 
the 
erection of new churches and school 
buildings.
At Raton, brethren have already se­
cured the building site and are now 
raising the funds for a building which 
they purpose to use as a church and 
school building. 
It is desired to have 
the building ready for the beginning of 
school this fall. 
At this place we have 
a joint school of the American and 
Spanish churches.
The lumber and land for the church 
and school building at Maxwell has 
been provided. 
As soon ad the dobes 
are made the building will begin so as 
to have it ready for the school this 
fall.
The Albuquerque Spanish church is
considering the building of a new and 
larger church in a better location- and 
using their present church building for 
school purposes.
As the Mexican government has • al­
ready given us a building site in 
Juar­
ez for a church, the brethren in El Pa­
so and Juarez are anxious to get their 
-building up.
New interests among the Spanish are 
developing near Maxwell. 
A 
family 
has just taken their stand for the - Sab­
bath and a number are beginning to 
■study the message with us. ' In- Gar­
dener where several have been study­
ing for some time and are keeping the 
Sabbath, we expect to have baptism 
soon.
Several are waiting for baptism at 
Cleveland, Mora County, New Mexico 
where 
Brother 
Ayala 
is 
working. 
Some of these will be baptized during 
this month.
GOOD EXPERIENCES .
I was selling books once when I ’ met 
a protestant minister. 
He used to be 
pastor of a church, evangelist of that 
territory and professor of one of their 
schools. 
The book I was selling was 
“Heralds of the Morning.” 
After a 
little talk with him he said:
“Why do you Seventh-day Advent­
ists not sell Bibles?”
“Who told you we do not?” I re­
plied. 
“How many and what kind do 
you want? 
I will sell you any kind you 
^ant. 
Have you ever been in any of 
our Bible Houses?”
“Yes, but you are selling another 
book now.”
'‘Why, ” I said, 
“Do you remember 
what Philip did when 
he 
met 
the 
eunech? 
He did not 
give 
him 
the 
Scriptures because 
he 
already 
had 
them, he only explained them to him. 
That is what we are doing. 
All the 
hundreds of denominations are selling 
Bibles although we hardly find 
any 
among their members during the ser­
vices. 
You are selling Bibles to others 
and after you sell them we bring the 
Philips, as I call our books, to explain 
the Scriptures to the people if they 
have read them, and if not, to make 
them thirsty so they will go after their 
dusty Bibles to see if what our books 
say is right. ”
We had a long talk on the Sabbath 
question, and after that he said:
“Well, your doctrine about the Sab­
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bath is not so bad as the doctrine of 
the immortality of the soul.”
“Let us not argue,” I 
answered. 
“Let us study. 
Let me present our 
standing on the matter and after I get 
through you present yours.”
He agreed and I did it. 
When I got 
through he only said:
“Maybe you are right, I don’t know.” 
Now, talking with the Catholic people, 
one of the arguments I present in fa­
vor of my book is this: I always keep 
with me a Catholic catechism in which 
I have marked this question and an] 
swer: 
“Ques.— What things help us 
to keep God’s commandments? 
“Ans. 
— Prayers, the sacrements, the ser­
mons, reading religious 
books, 
and 
good companions. ” 
I have sold many 
books for this reason. 
I emphasize the 
point “reading religious books.”
A son and daughter of a family with 
which I have been studying since last 
January, have just come from a pro- 
testant school. 
The boys up here began 
to ask them the meaning of some verses 
in the Bible. 
Although the young lady 
was in the seventh grade 
and 
the 
young man in the ninth, neither could 
explain anything. 
Then the boys up 
here explained according to the studies 
we have had. 
They were deeply sur­
prised and exclaimed, — “Well, 
how 
did you get so smart about the Bible?” 
The Lord is blessing us and some are 
preparing to be baptized, so we ask our 
brethren everywhere to pray for us.
C. I. AYALA.
THE GREATEST AND NOBLEST 
WORK OF ALL.
We read in in the Bible: “He that 
winneth souls is wise;” that is, he is 
one who has been taught how. 
It is 
encouraging to hear from Fireside stu­
dents who are giving the morning 
hour to study, and are seeing fruit 
of their efforts. 
One Writes from 
Chicago: 
“I study from five to six
a. m. 
. 
.1 have won one soul since 
I began this Bible Reading course.” 
Another writes; 
“I am a colporteur 
and also work by the day. 
I study 
going to and from work and in the 
evening before retiring.” This student 
is reading wjith four persons. 
Two 
have signed the temlperance pledge, 
and 
he 
expects 
them 
shortly 
to take their stand for the truth. 
A 
sister Who is about half-way through 
the course writes from the state of 
Washington: “Through God’s all-suf­
ficient grace my husband and I have 
brought a family to Christ, including
husband, wife, and two children. More­
over they are themselves beginning to 
work, and are out bringing other peo­
ple to the meetings.”
jSoul-winning is the supreme test of 
spiritual life. Abiding in Christ means 
bearing fruit; and when the members 
bear fruitj the church grows in num­
bers and in spiritual power. 
It may 
reach all its other goals; but if its 
members are not successful in bring­
ing other souls to a saving knowledge 
of the truth, the church is a failure. 
Fruit-bearing 
calls for 
earnest, be­
lieving prayer. 
Zion 
must be in 
travail before she can bring forth chil­
dren.
“The conversion of souls to God is 
the greatest, the 
noblest 
work 
in 
which human beings can have a part. 
In this work are revealed God’s power, 
His. holiness, His forbearance, and His 
unbounded love.” 
-—Gospel Workers. 
May we not have the privilege of hear­
ing from more men and Women who 
are willing to rise early on these 
bright summer mornings, and give 
patient thought and study to the fine 
art of soul-winning?
Fireside Correspondence School.
Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
NOTICE
Next winter there will be an oppor­
tunity for some mature young woman, 
who is qualified, to take charge of our 
school laundry. 
In times past young 
women who have held this 
position 
have worked their entire way through 
school. 
I would be glad to get in cor­
respondence with mature young wo­
men, who are planning to be in South­
western Junior College next year, in 
order that definite arrangements may 
be made with them for this 
work. 
Kindly address 
P. L. THOMPSON, 
Keene, Texas.
NOTICE!
Notice is hereby given that the 
Texico 
Conference 
Association - of 
Seventh-day Adventists will be called 
to convene at Am'arilloi Texas, at the 
S. D. A. camp ground at 10:00 A. M. 
August 5, 1927, for the purpose of 
transacting such business as may come 
before the Association. 
Delegates to 
the conference are also delegates to 
the Association.
E. T. Wilson, President,
O. D. Slater, Secretary.
MEETING OF THE TEXICO CON­
FERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY 
ADVENTISTS
Notice is rereby given that there 
will be a special session of the Texico 
Conference called, to be held in con­
nection with the camp meeting in 
Amarillo, Texas, August 4-14,, 1927. 
The first meeting will be held at 9:00 
A. m; August 5. 
Each church in the 
conference is entitled to one delegate 
for its organization and one additional 
delegate for each fifteen members or 
major portion thereof. 
Reports of 
officers will be read and su.ch other 
business transacted as may come be­
fore the delegates.
E. T. Wilson, President,
O. D. Slater, Secretary.
 
 
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ADVERTISEMENTS 
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Wanted:—(The address 
of two or 
three Seventh-day Adventist families 
desiring church school privileges who 
are able and willing to help support a 
school. 
Good 
farming 
community. 
Farms to rent. 
Second successful 
term of school just closing.
B. C. Butler, Perkins, Okla. 
25.
FOR SALE:—My place at Keene, six 
blocks of college, twenty-seven acres, 
seven room house, barn, orchard, city 
water. 
Price $2,000. 
Also ten and 
three-quarters acres, three room house, 
running water, $500. 
I. A. CRANE, 
Keene, Texas. 
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Published 
by 
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Southwestern 
Unlo» 
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at Keene 
Texas, 
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