Sumatra by B. JUDGE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jul 16, 1914

Sumatra

By B. JUDGE

B. JUDGE

THREE million five hundred thousand souls cry out, How long, O Lord, how long must we sit in darkness and know not the “light of life”? It is their wretched and miserable condition that appeals with such forceful language, yet their hearts know not that “from the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores,” and that they have “no healing medicines.”

Mohammedanism with all its baneful practices, such as polygamy, holds sway over eighty per cent of the population, and is doubtless the greatest single obstacle to the advancement of Christianity and its work in this country, which, were it allowed the same rights and privileges, would bring with it the “light of life.”

But notwithstanding the darkness, the superstition, the blinding of the eyes with the smoke ascending out of the bottomless pit, and the filthy habits of siri chewing, tobacco smoking and chewing, and opium using, some have found “the One altogether lovely,” and are serving him day by day.

We are very much in need of laborers. A good, patient evangelistic nurse and an ordained minister and his wife are required for the northeast of this immense island.

Our school-teacher has now relieved the mission treasury of further expense by taking over the school on his own responsibility. But the school is sadly in need of a little help in the way of three charts, maps, etc.

We thank you who have in any way helped us in the past, and would still solicit an interest in your prayers on our behalf, believing that you will yet meet in the eternal kingdom those from this mission field for whom you have sacrificed and prayed.