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Opening a Mission on the Island of Cebu

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 49.

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Opening a Mission on the Island of Cebu

By Carlos Fattebert

CARLOS FATTEBERT, M. D.
We have been here on the island of Cebu one year. We are able to conduct services of a simple kind in the dialect. About one hundred persons have at different times attended our Sabbath school and preaching services. I have treated 274 patients, giving 1,265 treatments, to the value of $515 pay work and $140 charity work.
Our regular communicants are from sixteen to forty-three years of age. The oldest is a fisherman who obtained a Bible about ten years ago. He says: “I was then a bad man—drank, smoked, gambled; but when I began to read the Bible, I left all my vices, and have tried to do right. But I knew little of what the Bible really teaches until I began coming here.” He seems willing to do anything that the Bible commands.
Argao.