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Olen Holderby, 8117 E. Flower, Tucson, Axis., Sept. 28: "Sunday, Sept. 80 will bring to a close twenty months work with the Catalina congregation. It has been a very profitable work, both spiritually and materially. Twenty months ago this congregation didn't number over fifty members. Today it numbers about eighty, after having lost about twenty-five. Even now, as I leave, the attendance at all services is very good and the contributions are above average. Four class rooms have been added and they are discussing a new meeting house in a better location. I leave behind some fine Christian people and many life-long friends. I begin work with the Casa Grande, Ariz., church Oct. 7, and look forward to a profitable work with the brethren there."

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Rolfe Wagner, 212 North 6th, Carlsbad, N. M., Oct. 5: "The work here at Hillcrest is progressing. We have had sixty-two additions to our working force since the beginning of the year-26 baptisms, 18 restored, and 18 identified. We have about 225 in our mid-week Bible study which has grown from about 40 since the first of the year. Have a membership of approximately 200. Have time for two meetings this fall or winter."

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Basil C. Doran, Box 10086, Houston 18, Texas, Oct. 1: "During the month of September nine were added to our membership here at Garden Oaks. My next meeting will be with the Highland Avenue Church in Montgomery, Ala., beginning Oct. 14."

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Earl Fly, Friendship, Tenn., Oct. 8: "Two tent meetings were conducted during July and September in Chestnut Bluff community, near Hails, Tenn., which resulted in a new congregation being established with about forty members. James Needham, evangelist for the church in Maury City, Tenn., did the preaching, delivering in the spirit of love plain, simple, forcible lessons boldly without compromise. A Baptist preacher of Halls evidently was disturbed by the meeting and stated that we were teaching the doctrine of Campbell. He was challenged each night to come out and prove it. Needless to say, he never came. I assisted in the song services. The Christian Church in Chestnut Bluff (which was once a loyal church) is now practically dead as a result of the meetings, since many of its few members left it to take their stand with Jesus. It made a feeble effort to rise again by employing Frank Perry of Selmer, Tenn., to conduct a four-nights meeting, in which he scattered some false reports and misleading literature. His literature was answered by tract and he has been challenged to debate the music question, since he has boasted that "no man in the brotherhood would meet him on this question." Should he fail to meet the challenge, steps will be taken to expose him for we believe we should "mark them that cause divisions." The church of Christ is now meeting upstairs in a rented old store building, having been "run out" of a school building because of sectarian prejudice; notwithstanding the fact that we had a signed statement from the board of education authorizing us to meet there. But they were "high-pressured" by the devil's children to withdraw their permission. We hope in the near future to have a building for our own. Brother Needham and I now alternate in preaching for them each Sunday afternoon. We greatly rejoice that God's Word has once more brought forth fruit. May the honor, praise and glory be given to Him for the success of the work."

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Walter W. Leamons, Junction, Texas, Oct. 10: "Marshall Davis, Roland Fry and A. C. Knight were speakers for the all-day meeting at London, Texas, Sunday. We opened a new wing of the meeting house in the presence of the largest audience I have ever seen there."

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T. T .Carney, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 9: "The fall meeting at Spring and Blaine Ave. will be held Oct. 28-Nov. 9. Evangelist Wilson Wallace will do the preaching."

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M. C. Cuthbertson, 1220 Elden Ave., Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 5: "Brother Foy E. Wallace, Jr., was with us for one service only, Sept. 10. A large group of friends from over this section were present. My meeting in Modesto, Calif., closed Sept. 28th. Five were baptized and two restored. Brother Sherman L Cannon is the regular preacher, and is doing a good work. We enjoyed the stay with the Cannons and the church. They are both fine and working together in a good way. Brother Howard White of Honolulu is presently with us at Central in a meeting. The preaching is very excellent. He has done a good work in Honolulu."

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Chester A. Gray, Cameron, W. Va., Oct. 1: "Meetings at Mt. Nebo, Joes Run, and Seneca Valley are now history. Total results in the three meetings were twenty eight baptized and eight restored by confession of wrongs. Begin at Sardis, Ohio, Oct. 2."

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Rufus R. Clifford, Old Hickory, Tenn., Oct. 4: "One was baptized last Sunday. Our fall meeting began last night with brethren Harper and Winstead. Six hundred attended the opening service, so we are expecting a great meeting."

Oliver C. Cunningham, 1331 E. 11th, Shawnee, Okla., Oct. 6: "One baptized, one restored and two placed membership at 1224 E. Main last Lord's day."

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W. K Fortney, 162 Harrison St., Clarksburg, W. Va., Oct. 8: "The meeting at Moundsville, W. Va., was successful. Three were baptized and one was restored. Brother Charles Wells labors with this church and is doing a good work."

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McNUTT GOES TO MEMPHIS Statement By the Elders January, 1947, brother J. A. McNutt came to Paragould, from North Little Rock, Ark., to work with the congregation at Second and Walnut Streets. Since his coming the congregation has enjoyed a steady growth. The building at Seventh and Mueller has been erected. More than a hundred members began to worship with that new congregation. Our membership has been built back to more than when he came here. A church bus has been purchased for the gathering of the young as well as the older, that they might have a way of getting to services.

The preacher's home on West Emerson was sold and the one at the corner of Third and Walnut has been secured which is more convenient for the preacher and those desiring to contact him. The church is out of debt and is contributing to mission work in the Philippines, in Africa, in Holland, as well as mission work in the county. We have been assisting in the caring for the orphans and the needy.

Brother McNutt has resigned this work to accept work with the Berclair congregation in Memphis. He conducted the closing services of his work last Sunday. In his leaving we feel like we are giving up one of the beet friends that the church here has had. He stood for the right, regardless of who opposed him. He has not shunned to declare the "Whole Counsel of God." The congregation as a whole hate to see brother and sister McNutt and daughter, Rita, leave but our prayers go with him in his new labors at Berclair. They will be in Paragould from time to time and we feel sure they will not forget us.

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Milton K Trues, 2551 Oxford Ave., Memphis 12, Tenn.: "I have held four meetings this year. Sunday morning, Sept. 30, a man was baptized who had been a Methodist for several years. This man is outstanding in many ways and we are sure that he will do much for the Lord. Brother Doyle Banta held a good meeting for us. Every sermon was very good. A girl was baptized during this meeting. I have baptized 28 since I last reported. I am beginning my third year with the Merton Street church."

Neil B. Cope, Searcy, Arkansas, Sept. 28: "Radio sermons by James D. Bales, professor of Bible at Harding College, over short wave station 4-VER, Cap Haitien, Haiti, are being heard along the west coast of South America, as far south as Lima, Peru, according to a report from one of the listeners. Recently a friend of Bales, who is radio officer on S. S. AMPAC Nevada, monitored the broadcasts during a cruise from Panama City, Panama, south to Valparaiso, Chile. Reception is excellent In almost all this area, he said. The 15-minute sermons are broadcast daily on 4-VEH, 9750 kilocycles, at 8:00 a.m., Central Standard Time. They are recorded on tape at the college and shipped bi-weekly to the Haiti station. The series of sermons began last April and will continue for two years. Sermon topics have included "The Existence of God," "Why We Believe the Bible," "How to Study the Bible," "Faith," "The Church," and "The Book of Acts."

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Robert A. Bolton, Box 787, Lefors, Texas, Sept. 29: "In August I was privileged to be with the church in Placid, Texas, in a ten-day meeting. Although no baptisms or restorations were witnessed, many good people who had been misguided religiously came every evening to study the Word of God with us. Last Sunday brought to a close a ten-day meeting with the church in Chowchilla, Calif., in which ten were baptized and one restored. Brother Porter Norris, who has been laboring with this congregation for the past seven years and preaching the Word since 1900, was a great inspiration to me and I count it a wonderful privilege to have been associated with him in this work. Recently, one has been baptized here. Brother W. R. Smith of Abilene, Texas, begins a meeting with us Oct. 28. We invite you to worship with us when visiting in the Panhandle of Texas."

"Considerable progress has been made in the Catalina church since moving into our building at 3125 E. Flower. Brother Olen Holderby, who has been working with the congregation for about a year and a half, has resigned of his own accord, and plans to begin work with the church at Casa Grande, Arizona, about Oct. 1. We wish for him a pleasant and profitable work with the church there."

Wm. Lester Pritchett E. B. Jordan Elders, Catalina Church of Christ Tucson, Arizona

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Dale Season, 145 North Country Club Road, Tucson, Aria.: "Four adults have been baptized recently. One of the four is a captain in the Air Force and was a Polish Catholic. New members are moving in very regularly. The work is peaceful and pleasant. When in Tucson we invite you to worship with this fine church at 145 North Country Club Road. Roy Cogdill will be with us for a meeting Nov. 11 through 21. Stop over a night or so if going through Tucson at that time."