The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-25

other books, by gift )r sale. 1850
Number pages of tracts dis
tributed .......,.. ........... .bo5062
Sunday school addresses Tor talks)
made ........, ..............s.. o,oVt
Sunday schools assisted in or
gnnizng ........ ...........' z5l
Sunday school Institutes held, or
assisted in .................... III
Sunday school conventions held,
or assisted In ......,.........., 5lo
Number of mothers meetings held BIG
Total enrolment of women at
tending same .....,........... 142S
Number OF childrens meetings
held -........... ...........'.' olS
Total enrolment OF children at
tending same ................. 1855
Number persons In poverty or dis
tress assisted to supply with re-
lief ............ ............... LUIS
Value approximately OF supplies
so furnished .................. s71s rs
Collections (money or otherwise)
made or assisted in, for State
board, Dallas ................. 100 52
Same for home mission board,
Atlanta, Ga... s...............' 90 10
Same for foreign mission board,
Richmond. va. ........... 27s so
Same for Buckner Orphans home. 6S5 20
Same for local church purposes
on the Held ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LIZA 50
We beg to add few suggestions:
AS TO CONTRIBUTIONS.
This convention may congratulate It
self upon the steady Improvement that
is going on in contributions to its work.
During tho past year there has been a
gratifying increase in the number of
churches and Sunday schools making reg
ular monthly or quarterly contributions,
While all OF these do not maintain stead
fastness In this grace of giving, and while
the amounts are generally small. the ag
gregate increase is very pronounced. See
ing what has been done by the regular
and persistent efforts of few schools
and churches. 1t Is to be hoped that the
number of such contributors will continue
to grow.
We plead earnestly that our larger and
ADLER churches come more strongly to
the help of this work Its enlarged pro-
portions and improved efficiency can not
he maintained without their large con-
tributions. We can see no reasons what
ever to justify any neglect OF this great
and most important department OF our
UNCONVENTIONAL work.
Various physical explanations of the re-
ported deficit might be mentioned, such
as severe winter, very late and very
dry spring, epidemics of several forms of
Sickness and disease, devastating floods
and the attendant cost of relieving flood
sufferers, etc; but, after all, the indffer-
ence, carelessness, or covetousness of
Gods people are the real causes of It.
Not till we receive the grace of God be-
slowed on IFS that will induce us to give
in great trials of affection and in deep
poverty" and beyond our power" as
did the Macedonian Christians mentioned
by PAM in II Corinthians vii, IL, will
we ever approach proper degree of eff
cheney in our Lords service.
BIELE WoMAN's WORK.
Ten consecrated women have served
faithfully in as many needy cities during
the past year, increasing their zeal and
usefulness as the years go by. All the
mothers meetings. and nearly all the chill
dren's meetings, with the large number
of attendants upon them, were conducte |
by Bible women. The cases of distress
relieved, and the amount raised for their
relief has been almost wholly The work
of their hearts and hands. large pro-
portion of all that has been raised by our
workers for denominational needs other
than those of the State Sunday school
work. was raised by them.
This board is gratified that progress IL
being made in the direction of providing
suitable instruction for lite Bible women
which has been looked forward to with
sollciiude for the past two or three yea g.
and trusts hat facilities may so increase
and so improve in efficiency that none OF
them need leave our state IN search OF
such. All of the Bible women who could
possibly afford the expense, attended upon
the last Bible school at Waco. much to
their profit and future efficiency.
| Ine management of the Bible school
for the second time, employed our sister
Mrs. b. j. Nelson Bible woman at san
Antonio, as one of its instructors
| Acknowledgement should here he made
/ of the valuable assistance rendered ouG
Bible women by our sister, Miss Ella G.
Moore, founder OF the cottage department
/ of Baylor Female college In furnishing
them home during their stay at Waco
ut merely nominal charges
/ Ii is gratifying to note hat certain la
| dies who wish to enter upon Bible woman s
work are disposed to associate themselves
with some one OF our most experienced
/ sisters in this department. in active train
| Ing work on the field. Nothing could be
more helpful towards securing the best
| possible equipment for this important SER
/ vice.
COLPoRTAGE WORK.
The large increase during the past year
|
/ Bibles and Testaments alone that have
/ been distributed from i793 TO 1881 besides
other good books, and the increase from
43S,507 to 5Si.S12 in the number of pages
| of tracts distributed attest your board s
| appreciation OF colportage work and large
/ ly justiies the increased cost of the past
| years work.
| We urge, however. that these figures do
not represent the half that seventy four
| workers should have done nor the half
of what they would have done II sufficient
means had been supplied. The people
everywhere hunger and clamor for the
bread of life, Why will not Gods people
give II to them?
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.
The improved organization of the Sun
day schools in the State has been limited
at in mentioning the increase OF their
number making regular contributions Bet
ter system is generally noticeable.
The resignation of Brother r. c. Boylin
last October, for four years our Sunday
school evangelist and institute instructor,
has left the work without such services
The stringency in finances has precluded
further negotiations to supply successor
to Brother Boykin; but this board Is very
sensible of the great need OF an efficient
and progressive man In charge of this de-
partment OF its work.