Missionaries Sail for the Orient

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1915

Missionaries Sail for the Orient

Several families of missionaries left for the Orient on the steamship “Persia,” sailing from San Francisco on September 15. Going to Malaysia are Mr. and Mrs. J. Rowland Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Schmidt, who have been connected with Walla Walla College and engaged in evangelistic work in adjacent conferences. Going to China are Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Donaldson and Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Davenport, who completed their work last spring at the Loma Linda Training School for Medical Evangelists. It is to labor as medical missionaries that these doctors enlist for China. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Glascock, of Pacific Union College, also join the company for China. Brother Geo. Harlow and family, who have been in the States on furlough, are returning to their field in China with this party of missionaries. Leaving on the same boat, for India, are Mr. and Mrs. Roland Loasby, who have been in attendance at the Washington Missionary College for several years; also Miss Della Burroway, returning from furlough, having spent the time since the last General Conference in earnest work in behalf of missions.

Surely this is a splendid contribution which the church at home is making to the needy, waiting fields at this time. Yet it must be remembered that the first year must be spent almost entirely by the recruits in language preparation, so that but little help is realized by the field during the first year. Let us pray that these dear ones who have left home and loved ones, to answer the call from the front, may have a safe voyage, and be used by the Lord in the winning of many precious souls.