Official record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, eighty-fifth session, held at Knoxville, Tenn., October 7-13, 1908 . eatrevivals have been held in our Mission charges, and most of them have madesubstantial progress. The tardiness of the pastors in sending the money forHome Missions to the Treasurer caused a delay of three weeks in paying thedrafts for the third quarter. You thus compelled us, virtually, to borrow forthis time without interest, several thousand dollars, from men who could illafford to make the loan. We urge early payments, that such a contin
Official record of the Holston Annual Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, eighty-fifth session, held at Knoxville, Tenn., October 7-13, 1908 . eatrevivals have been held in our Mission charges, and most of them have madesubstantial progress. The tardiness of the pastors in sending the money forHome Missions to the Treasurer caused a delay of three weeks in paying thedrafts for the third quarter. You thus compelled us, virtually, to borrow forthis time without interest, several thousand dollars, from men who could illafford to make the loan. We urge early payments, that such a contingencymay not arise again. Our evangehsts have been very faithful and diligent. They have heldnearly forty protracted meetings, resulting in 2,000 conversions. The col-lections of one more than pays his salary and expenses, while those of the otherfalls short. As we employ them both again, you will see that this is no efforton our part merely to get money. It is our desire that they help in the weakplaces as well as the strong, but we will not send them anywhere unless theyare invited. This is a great opportunity for the strong churches to help the. THE HOLSTON ANNUAL 57 weak. If the strong churches, where they hold meetings, will contribute tothem as liberally as they do to the evangelists who work under the authorityof no church, we can afford to send them into more of the weak places, withoutrisk of taking money from the funds provided by our regular collections, topay the salaries of our pastors on Mission charges. In response to the generous offer of our Epworth Leagues to provide thesupport, we inaugurated work among our foreigners of West Virginia. Thework began most auspiciously—some forty or fifty conversions have beenreported. Owing to the ill health of our missionary, acting on the adAdce ofhis physician, a month ago he left for a climate better suited to his physicalstate. We have made the necessary appropriations from funds to be paid bythe Epworth League to conti
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