Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Page: 51
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CENTRAL TEXAS CONFERENCE JOURNAL
supplement the work in the home field and are auxiliary to the
general board. As they have undertaken some greatly needed
specials, and as they are destined to perform a great part, equal
to or surpassing, the work of the women, the church looks anx-
iously for the bringing up of the reserve corps. Our last Gen-
eral Conference has enlarged, and made of this an integral
part of the church and has made the Lay leaders members of
the Quarterly District, and annual conferences, and since, at the
Junaluska Conference, special tasks were set aside and accepted
by our laymen, you will hear from them in the near fu-
ture. In our own conference the purpose to build a church in
Soochow, China, through the activities of the laymen, met with
hearty response, and nothing but the financial stringency will
prevent them from reporting the full amount, and whatever is
lacking of the $10,500 will be again undertaken by these broad-
minded laymen. Under the leadership of our indomitable lead-
er, Judge Williams, our laymen will reach the goal. Your board
would again endorse the pledge of our laymen to build this
church, and would urge our Presiding Elders, pastors and mem-
bers to co-operate heartily in this endeavor. Previous to con-
ference $1,105 had been collected, and the collection at the anni-
versary was $137.00, of which $106 was paid.
Woman's Work.
This work shows gratifying results. In the Foreign Depart-
ment there are 12'4 missionaries and 342 native helpers and Bi-
ble women, and there was contributed $282,868.00. Closing the
quadrennium they had gathered together $1,101,798.00. In the
Home Field there are 30 deaconesses and 322 volunteer work-
ers in the cotton mills and 20 deaconesses and 115 volunteer
workers in city and slum work. In this department there was
collected $267,873.00 and for the quadrennium $902,963.00.
Total workers, 204 missionaries and deaconesses and 664
helpers collected $350,742 and for the quadrennium, $2,004,-
772.00.
In the Central- Texas Conference there are 121 adult aux-
iliaries and 27 young people and 119 Junior Divisions. Total,
267 auxiliaries and 6376 members. Amount collected, $10,791.
In the Home Department 189 adult auxiliaries, total members
8,044. Missionaries supported, 6; deaconesses, 3; Bible women,
13.
It is gratifying to observe the increased interest in the study
of missions. Seventeen thousand volumes of the publications
issued, for study, in the women's, young people's and men's de-
partment of work have been taken and possibly 50,000 students
are striving to know, and do, the will of the Lord. This seed-
sowing portends a great harvest in the near future.
Conference Missions.
Your seventy missionaries in the bounds of the Conference
have labored faithfully, and have secured a good degree of suc-
cess. In the face of financial stringency, never before experi-
enced, they have labored hard and long to reach the goal of
"full collections." Their drafts have been paid punctually. To
meet these obligations your Board has had to borrow various
sums, and at the beginning of the session of the Conference our
outstanding obligations were $4,244.05, and the fourth quarter's
drafts of $3,375.00 yet to be paid.51
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Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Journal of the Central Texas Conference, Fifth Annual Session, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, periodical, November 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49828/m1/51/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archives of the Central Texas Conference United Methodist Church.