ARKANESAS-LOUISIANA
H. C. Hartwell, President
J. B. McMullen, Secretary
1316 Marshall Bt., Little Rock
An Appeal to the Other
Two-Thirds
FROM the best information that
I can gather I judge that about two-
thirds of our members in this confer
ence do not have or read the Review
and Herald, our denominational
church paper. To my mind this is
one of the most serious weaknesses
in our work among us as a people,
Here we are, living down amid the
closing scenes of earth's history. We
all profess to believe that the work of
God is rapidly drawing to a close,
Our pioneers are dropping out by the
way, taken from us hy death, and
serious and solemn times are just be-
fore us.
The only current publication that
is issued especially for our own peo-
ple to keep us informed in regard
to world-wide developments as they
affect our own denomination is the
Review and Herald. It is like a watch-
man on the walls of Zion, pointing out
as no other publication does the dan-
gers that are coming, keeping us in-
formed of approaching events that
involve our peace and prosperity.
It tells us from week to week of
the wonderful progress that is being
made in our great world-wide field;
in fact it is packed from the front
page to the last with valuable mat-
erial that no Seventh-day Adventist
can afford to get along without. But
vou say, “Brother Hartwell, we can-
not afford to subscribe for it.”
I realize that many of our members
do not have ‘very much money to
spend. No doubt there are some who
really find it practically impossiide
to raise the price of the Review. But
1 am convinced that there are many
who could take it who are not, and if
all would subscribe for the Review
who could do so and then would loan
it to other members who are unable
to take it, practically everyone would
have access to this paper.
To help all to subscribe for the Re-
view special plans have been made to
promote the interests of the Rewicw
from May 18 to June 1, and during
this period the price of the Review
will be reduced from $2.50 to 32.
Church officers will be provided
with promotion material to use in con-
SOUTHWESTERN UNION RECORD
nection with this campaign, but I can-
net refrain from sending this appeal
in this article te all nur members.
Brethren and Sizters, let us arouse
ourselves and take our religion se-
ricusly, and realize that if we are
going to go through to the kingdom
we shall need all the help and en-
eouragement that we can gel from
every sources, and the Review and Her-
ald is one means of grace that should
be in every Sabbath-keeping family.
H. C. HARTWELL,
Among the Churches
DURING the month of April the
writer visited the following places:
New Orleans, Shreveport, Texarkana,
Hammond, Baton Rouge, Pine Bluft,
Fort Smith, and Muskogee, Oklahomu,
The New Orleans church is a wide
awake church under the leadership of
I.. H. Bland who has every department
of the church functioning almost one
hundred per cent. I feel that I should
mention that this church raised £103
on the thirteenth Sabbath, due to the
splendid Sabbath school leadership of
Mrs, Sazon and the cooperation on the
part of the other of the
sehoal,
The Shreveport church, though lah-
oring under some disadvantages, is
forging ahead. During the month of
March they paid in more tithe than
ever before in the history of the
church in one month. 0. J. Trotter
13 in charge there.
At Hammond 1 found a fine set of
Inyal-spirited people scattered over
the country. They have a nice little
church building there. Elder Rland
plans to give them some spiritual
help soon,
The Fort Smith church is moving
forward, On the night of April 13
I spoke at the church, and a fine young
man came forward and applied for
membership as the result of Robert
Ryles’ work there.
At Baton Rouge Brother Mason,
Miss Williams and Miss Wright are
of good courage and are doing all they
cab to sound the alarm of the near-
nese of the end of this world.
At Pine Bluff, Brother J. H. Wil-
liams is giving splendid leadership to
the work, and has been successful in
winning seven adults to the message,
and has scorez of others intensely
interested,
We were glad to have our union
secretary, Elder M. M. Young, hold
a series of meetings in the Texarkana
members
church. The members expresed them-
selves az benefited as the result of
the some. '
My last visit to Muskogee, Okla-
homa, was to have part in the funeral
service if our dear Brother A. K.
Watkins. Our hearts are still sad
ave the great loss of our yoke fellow
and friend. May God help us to be
faithful to the end.
T. H. CooPwooD,
Colored School at New Orleans
WE READ of the forward move-
ments in mission lands with great
pleasure, and our hearts rejoice when
we hear of many souls turning from
the ways of sin to the love of our
Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
The Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist
church of New Orleans rejoices too,
in the blessings of God.
The church school board has had
dreams of a dark basement being
turned into a place of light and ex-
treme attractiveness. This dream has
not altogether been realized, as the
board still dreams of a partition in
its school room, making it a two-room
school,
We have been successful in securing
twenty-three more modern desks than
we had. With these tweny-three
desks, the number already in hand,
and a few chairs from crates made
by the present teacher in charge, Mr.
Charles Gray, we can nearly take care
of the present enrollment of fifty-one
children, A long-felt need has also
been realized in the recent installa-
tion of fifteen 100-watt lights in three
rows of five each.
There are still many more dreams
to materialize in our school work, but
the greatest now, is the addition of
two grades, ninth and tenth, and an-
other full-time teacher to assist in
this work. To this end we solicit
the prayers of our sisters and breth-
ren throughout the local and union
conference. Mrs. W. C. SazoxN.
Chairman Ephesus School Board.
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News Notes
Wednesday, May 8, a meeting of
both the white and colored conference
committees was held at the conference
office in Little Rock, We were glad
for the presence and counsel of Elders
Benton and Young, from the union.
In addition to these brethren, the fol-
lowing workers were present. Elders
H., C. Hartwell, Isaac Baker, A. F.
Ruf, L. H. Bland, Q. J. Trotter, and
H. M. Topic May 25, Ministers and Laity United for Service
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