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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
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September 17, 1908.
/iote-r From the Field
LADIES’ AID SOCIETIES
$40.00 MADE EASY.
nearly everyone took some part.
Lake Arthur, N. M.
ers, P. C., Sept. 6.
Porter, Aug. 4.
Fairlie Circuit.
Our revival meetings for this year
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by conference, and we are going to Conference will be held next Saturday An old man was converted in the cot- ing. While it has not been all we are in the past. We began at Wesley
have something special for missions and Sunday. We have already had ton field and shouted the praise of would like the year to have been, chapel on Sunday, July 26, with good
The Bellevue charge is O. K.— R. E. one gracious revivial this year, but God. Several times during the meet- there has been some advancement, interest from the’ first service. Bro.
year. The Senior and Junior League and for next year we expect to raise score professed faith n Christ, and fif-
did not go into summer quarters. We the salary about $200 above what it teen united with the Church. The age Deming, N. M.
Memorial by laying his hand on erne we could only have services at night; word read, and the children catechised, to Gomez Mission next year plenty to
or more of our young men and young nevertheless, the Lord was with us in Our collections are coming “right side do. We will try to follow me expan-
service we had one of the most precious things are in very good condition, total gain at present, sixty-nine. In first days, and it was ably done. There Chas. E. Brown assisted us. We gave
heart to heart services that it has This has been a hard year, yet a good our meetings we had the very best was not a weak sentence uttered in him $100 for the Superannuate Home,
been my privilege of attending in a one—hard, in that the work is large; help. First, the Lord was with us; the twelve sermons. Then he left us Next we held a meeting at Bitter
long time. At the close of the sermon good, because God has blessed the la- second, in our meeting at Copperas to finish the ten days and we had a Creek; were almost rained out; had
we held a testimony meeting in which bor of our hands. More than a hun- Cove, Bro. J. M. Serman, our presiding good meeting in strengthening the three conversions. On July 31 we b-
= dred have been converted this year;
I eighty-fve have joined the Church on
profession of faith and more to follow.
This is a fine field. We did our own
--- preaching, except at one place. Bro.
We Morris, of Calvert, came to my relief.
I take pleasure in sending the pho- received nine into the Church. Five of I want to say Morris can preach and
tograph of our new church at Lake- these were new converts who had just sing; in fact, he is a fine fellow. We
wood, on Dayton and Lakewood Cir- been converted in a meeting being are building one new church and ex-
cuit. We have six fine lots here valued held by Bro.. E. H. Cardwell in the pect to pay all claims out in full by
at $750 and the building at $2,500. Pro- southeast part of the town. Bro. Card- November 1, if nothing happens. We
portions are 28x42 feet with ell in well is a local preacher, and a memher have a fine board of stewards and a
front 14x28 feet, and addition behind of Couts Memorial. He has been as fine set of people to preach to. Our
8x20 feet for pulpit and platform. We sisted by Bro. A. B. Crow, another one Leagues, Sunday-schools and Home
hope to have Bishop Key stop off with of our local preachers, and the writer Missionary Society are doing well,
us on the way to conference and dedi- of this rote. We are expecting great Wheelock will become a half-station
we expect to “open fire” again on the ing the shout of triumph was heard in New people coming to this section, G A. Marvin, of Sherman, did most
fourth Sunday in September. We the camp of Israel. At the 11 o’clock new interests being developed, have of the preaching, and to say he did it
Farmer. have had the good fortune of securing service on the fourth and fifth Sun- held the attention of the masses. How- means that it was well done. When
I closed on August 30 what all Bro. R. j Tooley to do the preaching days the Holy Spirit came upon us in ever, the Church has advanced and he hits sin the «rur flies.” Men and
• say was the best meeting ever held in in this meeting. We are praying for great power and there was a shouting will soon have to add to present house Women of mature years sought and
the town of Markley, where I have an and expecting a great revival. We ear- time. Bro. Young was with me nine or build anew entire to make room found Christ in the old-time way, and *
afternoon appointment. I have never nestly request the prayers of all who of the fifteen days and rendered most for congregations. We need a new the church uplifted and the Christians
seen more powerful conversions than read these words.—Leonard Rea, Pas- acceptable and efficient service. He and modern church in this little city, made to see their duty and responsi-
there were in the meetng. I had no help tor, Sept. 7. completely won the hearts of all my This beautiful valley is being settled flinty as they had never before seen it.
in the way of preaching, but the Loi d --•---- people. He is a fine help in a meet- and there will soon be a large work w, closed out on the night of August
was with us from the beginning, and Haskell Mission. ing. Bro. B G. Hocutt, a former pas- outside of the town.. Methodism must 6 with many conversions and 17 addi-
T have never seen better personal We closed our meeting at Plainview tor, gave us one good sermon. Two care for the people in new sections. t'ns + the Church about $100 raised
work than that done by the Church on Sunday night, August 30. The Lord more meetings to hold—R. A. Hollo- This West is full of “isms.” We are for expenses of the meeting and on
and some of our good Baptist broth- was with us in our service there and , -o expenses or tne + “
ers, who worked day and night tor greatly blessed our efforts. Bro. C. "“y: ____.____ peingsou8ht.a “ t Vathe Mormons, the night following, notwithstanding
the salvation of the lost. The conver- Bruce Meador did the preaching. All Reg oa . .. . almost n in known we had received e usua pounding.
Red aK. to divert the thought of the people and had heen presented with $25 in
sions were at the altar in the good, who have been with Bro. Meador in We have finished our round of meet- from the truth. Moral reforms have and to pay our expenses to the sum-
old-fashioned way, and when one was a revival know what it means to have ings on this charge. Seventy-five pro- been the order since we first came school we received the largest
converted he or she would go for his assistance. He uses terse lan- fessions o faith and fortv-five addi- LI,, ,0,1 0 c,1, er s ,
, , , . , sessions or iaiin and orvy-MVe auu here. Deming was known as a wide- nonnding we have ever received,
their friends and the result was the guage, always presenting a gospel +- t +he Methodist Church are the ,4 L.c.. i • , P-uu8 >
1 , „ .. 1 , 7 15 ",0 , x Z + - tions to the Methodist -nuren are tne open" town, but Sunday closing and amounting to more than $30 in actual
town was powerfully stirred on account truth. Bro. Roy Neal, now student in regm14. We eynect tn reach the con. 1 : 1 ..011., 5 *
1 , xi. 111 , 1 . x t x-x • . results, we expect to reacn tne con- closing saloons at midnight with other value Wesley chapel people do
of sin, and because they wanted all to Stamford Collegiate Institute, did us Ferenc, tith pnod reports from this 0,, + , , . 1 , vaue W555- -"F5 F P
, ’ , , n , 1 .... ference with good reports irom tnis enforcements of law is the order now. things We began our meeting at
embrace the gospel. The results were great service in singing. During these Larg, c E Tindsev a .0: 1 11; S
, , . . 2.. charge.—C. E. Linasey. Some think if we had a local option Fairlie Sundav August 9 and ran two
32 conversions and a number of re- services we nad twenty-two conver- . . A .11 11. x- Tai1e uuaa-‘ Ausu9 “
ciamations among those that had not sions and twelve additions to the * aw in eW exico ha , is sec ion weeks, closing out with quite a num-
been living right. I took 26 into the Church. Nine were baptized at the unn. _ wou V0 e ' We wil havei , e her of conversions and additions to t e
Methodist Church, among them sev- Sunday service._Ira C. Kiker. Our revival meetings on.Dunn hope ° make New Mexico the best Church. The pastor did most of the
eral mothers and some eight or nine t charge are over. The Lord has blessed State in the Union when she is ad- preaching. We were assisted first
heads of families Old men came in- Travis us abundantly. Our meetings resulted mitted. New Mexico is great in cli- week by Bro. Gibson, of Commerce, he
to the Church to lead the way for the ‘ After closing my meeting I went to in more than one hundred conversions mate, in resources and possibilities, taking it time about with us. His
family, and the young people are much Anderson, in Grimes County, to assist and reclamations. Of this number We want good people to come this preaching was genuine, soul-stirring
stirred by religion. To the Lord of Bro. O. F. Zimmerman in a meeting, about sixty have joined our Church, way- It is a desert country and needs gospel and was highly appreciated.
Hosts belongs the praise and glory. I found him hard at work, and, by his The Churches are greatly revived and to be redeemed by the genius and en- Bro. Hicks, of Ladonia, preached three
Our little Church has doubled in mem- untiring efforts, he had made it possi- doing fine work. Rev. Arthur Thomas, ergy of good men.-W. E. Foulks, very helpful sermons. Our people here
bership this year at Markley. About ble for us to have a great meeting. He of Stamford, helped me in one meet- Sept 3. say it was the best meeting they
a hundred conversions on the work is the best man I ever saw to work ing, with fine results. Bro. Thomas is ----♦---- have had in several years. We have
this year will be the report. I have with in a meeting. He has a devoted an evangelist. I think he is one of Gomez Mission. heard several men say they were go-
taken in, in numbers, about 75 or 80.— and loyal people. I shall never forget the most untiring workers I ever saw. Gomez Mission was very much under ing to increase their assessments for
J. Hall Bowman. P. C. their kindness to me. We received Rev. M. S. Hotchkiss, of Waco, held the weather at the beginning of tne the pastor’s salary; some have prom-
t twenty-three into the Methodist Church the district camp-meeting for us at present year and has not entirely re- ised to double their assessment. Our
Gouts Memorial, Weatherford. and three gave their names for mem- Dunn, and a great meeting it was. It covered from it yet. Our meetings are olive Branch meeting was not what
We have nothing to boast of on our bership in the Baptist Church. As is not worth while for me to speak of over and we have organized three we expected in results, but great good
part but we want to stand up for a token of their appreciation they Bro. Hotchkiss. We all know his other societies, finding but one. The was accomplished. We will repair the
Christ and make our boast in the Lord cheerfully paid me $58.—C. S. Harkey, work. 1 am now getting ready for enrollment has increased 115 per cent., Church property there, making it a
for what he has done for us this year. Sept. 7. conference. Expect to have a fine 56 per cent, of which is by bap- desirable place of worship. In sum-
It is absolutely impossible to tell how ---•---- report. Surely the good Lord has tism and tows. We are obligated ming up we have had about fifty con-
wonderfully the Lord has blessed Couts Wheelock. blessed us, for which we give Him to Rev, Wm. Yopp, of New Mex- versions and fifty-four additions to the
Memorial We have had scores of We are now into the closing months praise.—S. T. Cherry, Sept. 7. ico, for help in one meeting at Church to date, with some progress
bright " conversions—running up to of the year with nine months behind ____.____ Plains, Texas. We joined forces along nearly all lines of Church work,
about seventy-five-and have received us. September 5 and 6 was our Quar- Copperas Cove, with Bro. Estes (Baptist minis- Finances will come up and perhaps
one hundred and twenty-four members terly Conference. Rev. E. L. Shettles This has been a fine year so far on ter), at Harris and had a good meet- over. We thank God for good, faith-
in the full fellowship with us. Sixty- was in his place looking after the af- this charge. We have one more meet- ing. We pulled well together until ful people, and for all His benefits.-
four of the number being on profession fairs of the Church. The good women ing to hold. We have had over one we got to the water and then we let j. W. Slagle.
of faith and thirty-six of this sixty- had a nice dinner and all enjoyed eat- hundred conversions and several re- him have the water and stayed on ----•----
four being by baptism. We have also ing under the shade of those trees, so clamations; have received into the high land. Results: Six-one. Moral: Spring Creek.
baptized six babies. Yesterday was a much. Really, it was like one large Church seventy-eight, baptized thirty- Don t jump in the creek until you We held our first meeting at Olney
great day indeed. The Lord was with family. At 2 p. m. the conference was four adults and eleven children; dis- learn to swim. Bro. G. S. Hardy did from the 10th. We had a few conver-
us and blessed us. At the 11 o’clock called to order. From the reports missed fly certificate secen, died, two; the preaching at Gomez for the six sions and twelve accessions. Bro.
Bellevue Circuit. women and sending them out for spe- saving power. The first few days the up with care.” Our new brick church sion policy that we have long since
My meetings are over. Since my cial missionary work. Oh, that God attendance was hindered by rain and at Copperas Cove will soon be com- adopted and make as much for the
last report we hejd a meeting at may convict us of our great responsi- threatening weather, but the congrega- pleted. We are waiting on our win- other fellow to do as we have tried
Friendship with the Baptists; had 15 bility of bringing the lost world to tions grew and the interest increased dows, and when they come, we will to do ourselves. Now, if you are real
conversions Held a meeting at Vash- our Savior. We have—several months so that by Sunday night the house was walk into the new church and hold a hungry to be employed, and you are
ti, with the Baptists and Presbyter- ago—paid all our conference assess- crowded to overflowing. I am told protracted meeting before conference, a young man and don’t want to get
ians, and had 35 or 40 conversions, ments and we expect to make a clear it was the best meeting held there for D. V. Pray that our Lord may give married, whisper in our presiding el-
Our Sunday-schools and Leagues are financial report at conference. We feel ten years. The Church is greatly re- us a gracious time of ingathering of der’s ear and get Gomez.—J. O. Gore,
doing very good work for this time of sure that the salary will be overpaid, vived, backsliders reclaimed, nearly a souls.—L. P. Grimes, P. C., Sept. 4. Aug. 25.
expect to have the finances up in full is at present. Our fourth Quarterly of the converts ranged from 15 to 50. I am closing my third year at Dem-
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5c a piece, and you have made the money. Many Aid
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cate it to the Lord. The subscriptions things from this meeting yet. Bro next year, and if rightly managed will elder, did the preaching, and every- Church and helping some who had
were sufficiently advanced and church Cardwell is an earnest, consecrated soon be a station. We have a refined body that heard him said no better turned aside. We were alone the
extension aid secured to warrant let- man and is without doubt doing some and cultured people, who will stand could be done. In our meeting at rest of the time. The Lord has blessed
ting contracts for the building of two good work. He is reaching people that by their Church and pastor. This has Reeces’ Creek Rev. T. K. True and us in many things this year. We are
ether churches on this charge, ore at we pastors have not reached. He does been a great year. To God be all the M. Mills of Copperas Cove helped us not satisfied with our work and are
Lake Arthur and one at Dayton; but the best he can and I say, God bless glory and praise.—D. W. Gardner. .do the preaching. We had seventy- determined to do better in the future
the money stringency set in just in him in his work. We had with us Sept. 8, eight conversions, fifty-eight additions if the Church will bear with us. There
time to stop present progress of these, last night Rev. M. S. Hotchkiss, Mis- ----•---- to the Church, some of them 40 and has been some real lively times since
Prospects look favorable for this fall, sionary Evangelist, Northwest Texas Manchaca. 45 years old, who never made any pre- we have been on the plains and some
and now Hope, the fourth point on Conference. To the large number who I have just closed a fine meeting of tensions before to Christianity, and of the most lively have been during
this charge, is talking church very know Bro Hotchkiss, it is not neces- two weeks’ duration at Carl, six miles several of them now pray in public, this year. I’ve seen the goose-necked
strongly. With their splendid fruit sary to say we had a thrilling mission- east of Manchaca, in which I was ably We now have several family altars in hoe used for various things—thinning
crop it surely looks timely. The Pecos ary sermon. We are sure that this assisted by Bro. C. C. Young, of First the bounds of Copperas Cove charge corn, cotton, etc., etc., but you can’t
Valley is filling with a fine, wide- message will be far-reaching and we street Church, Austin. The people that never sent up a petition before, guess what they thin with it at Plains,
awake, Christian people.—O. T. Rog- pray that God mav yet honor Coats were so very busy picking cotton that but now God is communed with, his We promise that the man that comes
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