(1904–1923; monthly; five preliminary undated issues in 1903, and volume 1, 1904, as Southern Missionary; published by Southern Missionary Society, later North American Negro Department; irregularities in numbering of volumes; files in White Publications).
The second organ of the Southern Missionary Society, launched in Nashville, Tennessee, by J. E. White for the purpose of reporting and promoting the Black mission work in the South-after the original Gospel Herald (see Gospel Herald [1] ) had been changed to a church paper for the Southern Union Conference. This second journal, called the Southern Missionary in volume 1, resumed with volume 2 the old title left unused after the merger of the original Gospel Herald with the Southern Watchman (later These Times ). In 1910 this second Gospel Herald became the organ of the newly formed Negro Department (later the North American Regional Department) of the General Conference, and the printing was taken over by the press of Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama. From then on it became primarily a news journal for the Black churches in North America-the function later performed by the North American Informant .