(1898–1903; monthly, at first irregular, afterward weekly; Gospel Herald Publishing Company, later SPA ; absorbed by These Times, 1903; files in White Publications). At first the organ of the Southern Missionary Society, promoting and reporting missionary work among the Black people in the South. It began as a private project, edited and printed by J. E. White (the first nine issues on board his mission boat Morning Star ) at Yazoo City, Mississippi, then at Battle Creek, Michigan. Beginning with the first number of volume 4, January 1901, the paper was issued in Nashville, Tennessee, where White had moved his Gospel Herald Publishing Company. Under a new policy it became an evangelistic journal for the Southern states, carrying general religious articles. The reports of the Black mission work were continued for a time in a separate supplement, optional to subscribers. In the spring of that year its publication was taken over by the Southern Publishing Association (SPA), newly formed in Nashville by the merger of J. E. White’s Herald Publishing Company and the Atlanta branch of the Review and Herald Publishing Association. Then in 1903 the Gospel Herald was suspended after five numbers and absorbed by the SPA ’s Southern Watchman (later These Times ); it should not be confused with a second journal called the Gospel Herald ( see Gospel Herald [2] ).