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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
June 17, 1909.
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Rain! Rain!! Rain!!! All in vain!
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NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
did the Conference
extra $6792 to give?
INFORMATION WANTED.
Will you help an old itinerant of
fifty years’ active work to find out
who he is and where he came from?
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preference would be division, but I do few years with good parsonages and vision! There is nothing to be gained Alice. Texas.
Methodism that is more promising for sion Board. We are not now dealing
thousanas 0^ Amaaricanstozr: am
moving into that section each year, ne- frank to say that in another quad
cessitating the organization of many rennium, or probably before then, di
new congregations and the building of vision may safely take place. But it
as many new churches. The last Con- is hazardous indeed to divide now.
ference Journal shows that of the 350 F astors in that section can by some
homeless congregations in the North- means get along without ChureH ex-
west Texas Conference almost two- tension money but when their living
thirds of them, or to be more exact, is withdrawn the field must beaban-
195, are within the bounds of those doned orthemen.and their fan the
six districts The indications re that suffer. About eight years ago the
. ix aistncts. the indications are that Bcard of Missions undertook to with-
at the next session of oui Conference draw some of the appropriations from >
the figures will show more than four the panhandle, and but for the gener- A
hundred homeless congregations and osity of the presiding elder theron
that at least 245 of them will be in the Clarendon District tbese pastors -
that territory northwest of the pro- and +ni. ^nr-es wpuld nave suffer- charcheg lotting
posed line. The question is: Can the 2d A0)r course thoroard corrected - -
351 organized COuresatiisow T the trouble the next fall.
that territory provide houses for the What are the figures for ten years? undertook larger things that day than until we have done the vork we
95 homeless ones in their midst. The record shows that during that she imagined. Nobody dreamed that agreed ato do.
And not only so, but provide tor the time the territory embraced in the that country would develop as it" has
many new ones to be organized with- new conference paid to domestic mis- done, and as it now promises to do.
in the next few months. It is no re- sions $27,144. The board expended What if we do grow large in carrying
flection on anybody to say they have in that same territory during these out that promise to the Church? Is
not done so in the past. Why? Be- years $49,480. Thus we see that the the Church hurt thereby? Did we not
cause each community has its local board gave back almost double the pay into the treasury of the Board of
burdens, and they have been heavy. amount of money that section paid Foreign Missions last fall $14,937 be-
But connectionalism means that the in “But " says one, “the conditions sides the specials on missions ? And In a word, having leisure, I am trying
strong shall help the weak until the out there have been that way, but did we not pay to the General Board to construct my family tree of Lew-
weak shall become strong, they are better now.” True there has of Church of Extension $3231 more ises. My great-grandfather was Aaron
The base of supplies for the Pan- been improvement, but is it sufficient than they gave back to us last spring? Lewis, who came from Virginia to
handle—and by that I mean all the to enable those charges to get along is it a crime for a conference to be Kentucky between 1775 and 1785. He
territory embraced in the proposed without those appropriations? Then, large? If so, then why not apply the had perhaps two brothers who came
new conference—has been, and is too, as rapidly as a mission becomes knife to the North .Georgia, the Vir- before him. They settled near Lex-
now, the southern and southeastern self-sustaining other missions are ginia, the South Carolina and others? ington and Col. Aaron Lewis married
section of the Northwest Texas Con- projected because of the rapid influx Those conferences might be divided a Miss South. He had several sons—
ference. I have carefully studied the of people to that country. Let’s look without crippling a large section of Isaac (my grandfather); Thomas, who
figures covering the past ten years, into that question of improvement: their territory. But to apply the went to Missouri, thence to Texas;
and find that in not a single year has Last fall the board received from that knife to the Northwest Texas Confer- John, who located at Woodville, Mis-
eER , SNAP’S
the territory north of the proposed territory $5050, and appropriated to ence at this time is to hazard one of sissippi; Jere, who I think never left
line paid into the hands of the Con- those districts $8475. During the past the most promising fields of the Kentucky; William, who went to
ference Board of Church Extension four years the board has received Church by cutting off its base of sup- Shreveport, La., and died at New Or-
as much money as that board gave from that territory $15,350, and appro- plies before it has had time to estab- leans about thirty years ago, and two
back to it. (In estimating the Church priated to it $25,080. Can the preach- lish a base for itself. daughters—Mrs. Threldkill and Mrs.
extension money we need to remem- ersof that country get along without “But, the General Conference will Dabney Finley, both of whom went
her that only half of the money com- that extra missionary money? not allow us to stand as we are West or South.
ing into the hands of the Conference if that section of our great confer- another quadrennium.” Why? may ] They came to Logan County from
Board of Church Extension is for dis- ence can get along without those ap- ask. If we are doing what we were Lexington vicinity in 1798, or about
tribution in that conference. The propriations from the Board of Mis- directed to do, why should the Gen- that time, and scattered abroad from
other half goes to the General Board sions and Church extension, then we eral Conference disturb us so long as Russellville, Ky., where Aaron Lewis
to be disbursed by them). ‘ That ter- are making a mistake to put so much we are doing that work so splendidly? was a member of the first board of
ritory during the last ten years has money out there. For, be it remem- There was net increase in our mem- trustees that town ever had. This is
paid to Church extension $11,783. It bered, that in the ten districts south bership last year of 8244. The year all I know. I have had no trace of any
has received from the Conference of the line there are 156 homeless con- before it was 8095. Is any conference of them for many years and would be
Board $12,684, and from the General gregations, and the demands for mis- in Texas doing so well? Will not so glad to hear from any of them.
Board $4150, making a total of $16,- sionary money for our cities and these figures compare favorably with what I wish most to know is, who
834 received, against $11,783 paid in. large towns is exceedingly urgent, any two conferences in Texas? Did was Aaron Lewis’ father, in’ Vir-
While it is true that the Conference However I am of that number who be- any conference in the connection do ginia, and when and from whence did
Board received from that territory Heve that there is still great need for so well last year? There is something he emigrate to America? If I could
$11,783, yet half of that was sent to Church extension and missionary in bigness that sometimes intensifies get his name right then we can make
the General Board, leaving only $5892 money out there, and that to withdraw energies and quickens enthusiasm. I up the record. As John Lewis, of
paid to the Conference Board, yet this money at this time means to se- rejoice over our bigness and our sue- Mississippi, and William, of Louisiana
the Conference Board gave back to riously cripple our enterprises. To do cesses. and my family here were all Metho-
that territory $12,684 during the ten that is to make possible the coming “But we have voted to divide, and dists I thought it probable that the
In other words, that ter- into that territory of the M. E. Church, the committee has agreed on a line, branches in Texas might be readers
ritory received from the Conference North, where at present she has no and we must divide.” Not at all. If of your excellent -paper. I know of
Board more than twice as much mission. Division means the with- we have made a mistake, let’s correct no other method of reaching them,
money as it paid to the board. Where drawal of those appropriations. Are it. Why perpetuate the mistake? The and hence ask the favor of having this
Board get that we ready to take such a risk? conference may reconsider its action, notice published in your paper.
It came from the “But,” says another, ‘the conference, or the report of the committee may JAMES A. LEWIS.
districts south and east of the as it now stands, is too large." I ask be laid on the table, or the conference - Of Louisville Conference,
proposed line of division. why should we become alarmed at our may memorialize the General Confer- Olmstead, Logan Co Ky
One bother remarked when he saw own bigness? Nobody else seems to ence to allow us to divide during the _
these figures: “Andrews, since you be alarmed over it. ' We are large, it is next quadrennium. This privilege
expect to remain south of the line, it true, but we are large for the reason was granted some years ago, but a GOOD NEWS.
looks as if you would favor division, that about twenty years age we un- drouth in the Panhandle prevented In our precinct election of June 5,
for the reason that these ten districts dertook large things when we said to the division. A drouth this year or we won by eleven majority. It was
would be able to hold all that Church the Church. “Give us the Panhandle next might do the same thing. How a hard fight, and we give the Lord
extension money for home use.” My and we will take care of it, develop unfortunate that section would be if praise for the victory.
reply to that is, that my personal it, and then turn it over to you in a the drouth should come after the di- W. A. GOVETT.
Why Divide the Northwest Texas Conference?
By Rev. W. B. Andrews
At the last session of the Northwest not think this is the hour for personal
Texas Conference it was decided by preferences nor for selfish policies,
majority vote to divide the conference Be it said to the credit of the North-
and a committee was appointed to fix West Texas Conference that since the
a line of division and report at the day she said to the General Board of
next session of the conference, which Missions, Give us the Panhandle and
convenes at Stamford November 10. we will takecare of it, from that day,
That committee has had its meeting J say, to this good day, unselfishness
and agreed upon a line, making one has been her.policy. We have kept
conference north and west of that line, that promise to the best of our ability,
consisting of six districts, and one Tne time will come, when that ter-
south and east of the line, consisting of ritory shall be able to stand alone
ten districts and be ike a bridegroom coming out
The question of division was sprung ot his chamber.and S- ” 8as.
upon the conference suddenly. There ^7 ha" not yet come
had been no previous discussion in the Each during the past ten the
papers or among the brethren In fact, Conference Board of Church Exten-
none of us had had time to look into sion has put into that territory from
the conditions in this vast territory one to three dollars for every dollar
and determine from those conditions taken out. The ten years I have been
what was best to be done. Six months chairman I know that the board has
have now elapsed, and meanwhile We been partial to that section of the
have had time and opportunity to in- conference. The past four years we
vestigate carefully those conditions, have given two for each dollar they
Every man among us is interested in gave the board. Shall we cut those
the answer to the question: Is it for six districts off from the base of sup-
the best interest of Methodism within plies by dividing? Will the General
our own borders to divide? In enter- Board do as much for them as the
ing upon this question I concede to Northwest Texas Conference Board
every brother the right to think for has done? As a matter of fact the
himself; and when he acts, that he is General Board has received ' from
thoroughly conscientious. I shall dis- that territory in ten years $5892,
cuss the question as it relates to while the territory has received from
Church extension and to missions. that board only $4150. The calls upon
I say unhesitatingly that I do not the General Board are overwhelming,
think division is to the advantage of and we need not look for relief in that
the territory north of the line agreed direction. We might be disappointed,
upon by the committee, and consisting The division question is even more
of the Vernon, Clarendon, Plainview, closely related to the Board of Mis-
Colorado, Abilene and Stamford Dis- sions of the Northwest Texas Confer-
tricts. There is no section of our ence than it is to the Church Exten-
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