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WRITINGS OF MACKNIGHT, BARNES, AND CLARKE TO BE AWARDS To the person sending us the greatest number of paid subscriptions to the Gospel Guardian, at the rate of $2.00 per year, before, and including December 15, we will post at once a complete set of Barnes Notes, in eleven volumes, covering the New Testament.

The one sending the next greatest number of paid subscriptions, as above, will receive a complete set of Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, in six volumes.

For the third prize, covering the next largest number of subscriptions, as above, will be James Macknight's Commentary on the New Testament epistles, in a new edition, just off the press, complete in one volume.

Since selling your brother or neighbor a year's subscription to the Gospel Guardian is truly a service to him, why not start at once. It is a case of everybody being benefited, and nobody loses. The campaign starts the moment you read this announcement. Subscriptions contained in envelopes post-dated December 15, will be counted in the totals of this campaign.

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George T. Jones, Nacogdoches, Texas, October 6: "Our fall meeting closed last night. Raymond C. Kelcy, of Tulsa, Okla., preached in a commendable way. Four were baptized, and three placed membership. We set an all-time high record in Bible school attendance the first Lord's day of the meeting. The work is making great progress. Twenty-two have been added to the local church in the last four weeks. We plan to begin construction of our new building in the spring. It will consist of an auditorium to seat 430, with thirteen spacious classrooms."

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Cornelius C. Abbott, Altus, Okla., October 3: "We averaged 420 in Bible study here each Sunday during September. Our goal is 500. Our meeting begins October 9, with Franklin Puckett, of Atlanta, Georgia., preaching and Cecil Wheeler of Amarillo, Texas, singer. I begin a meeting October 21, at Wewoka, Okla. I plan to begin at Bartlesville, Okla., on November 6. I have a little time in 1950 not taken yet in meetings. Success to the Gospel Guardian."

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Will M. Thompson, Gen. Del Anadarko, Okla., October 1: "I closed a good meeting at Roff, Okla., last Sunday night. Five were baptized. Begin local work here tomorrow."

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Moberly, Mo., October 4: "The church located on Logan Street has recently been visited by J. C. Bunn, Bellingham, Wash., and V. M. Gilbert, Des Moines, Iowa. These brethren are doing a good work in the field as faithful gospel preachers. The work in Moberly moves along, with all working together in peace, harmony, and love."

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Will M. Thompson, Box 195, Anadarko, Okla., October 10: "I am now in local work at the above address, having begun the first Sunday in October. This has been a difficult field in the past, but prospects for building up a real work looks promising at this time. Those desiring my new booklet, Sixty-one Objections to the Baptist Church, should send orders to the address above.

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J. T. Marlin, Dickson, Tenn.: "Three were baptized, and several restored at Rich Pond. Ky. Two were baptized here Sunday."

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E. Ray Jerkins, Paris, Tennessee, October 11: "The first colored congregation ever to be established in Henry County is now in existence. The white churches supported E. D. Phillips, colored evangelist of Nashville, in a two weeks tent meeting. He was the first colored preacher ever to preach a gospel sermon to the colored people in this county. As a result of the meeting, twenty were baptized, and the elders here have made arrangements for Charles Phillips, of Bowling Green, Ky., to come and work full time with them. At the first service since the meeting, one was baptized. Bonds Stocks, of Jackson, Miss., closed an eight-day meeting with us Sunday. Weather was bad, attendance fair, preaching excellent. There were two restorations, and one baptism. Our work here continues to grow. I have completed my meetings, which resulted in nineteen baptisms. There have been two baptisms here recently."

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C. H. Luster, 617 East 8th St., National City, Calif., October 1: "Six were restored in August, and there were nine restorations, with one baptism in September. These restorations were because of public sins, and correction with confessions were made before the congregation, not by telephone, nor behind closed doors in an anteroom privately, as is the practice in some places. It is encouraging how the truth of God's word has become the central interest in the hearts of the people in this section in recent months. Revelry or modernism have no part in the worship of this congregation."

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Elgin Announces Meeting M. L. Singleton, Elgin, Texas: "The church here has announced what some might call a lectureship, beginning October 16, and continuing through the 23rd. The following brethren will each preach one night: G. H. P. Showalter, Ben Holland, R. B. Sweet, Jess Hall, and Brother Cowan, all of Austin, Texas; J. D. Pinkerton, Georgetown, Texas; and Brother Meredith, of Manor, Ala. We are expecting good crowds throughout the series. We rather look upon this effort as a gospel meeting, for such it is. Frank L. Cox, our regular preacher, will be in the pulpit each Lord's day morning"

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Cled Wallace Coming Bill Thompson, assistant minister of the Lufkin church, Fourth and Groesbeck, recently announced that Cled E. Wallace, of Weatherford, Texas, has agreed to labor with the church. The time for his arrival has not been specifically named, but it is expected that it will be close to the first of December. Brother Wallace was one of the speakers in the Lufkin Lectureship, which was held in February, 1948. Roy E. Cogdill recently completed his third year of work with this congregation.