Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 22, 1916

AN intelligent Japanese physician is reported among those who have recently accepted the truth in Japan. He formerly was employed at a large mine, receiving a good salary. He has tendered his resignation, being anxious to start medical work in harmony with our work. A company of about thirty earnest inquirers was developed by a few visits to this mine by one of our workers. A worker is much needed for this place, but Japan has none to spare. In a district about the size of a township there are more than forty mines, in which thousands of people are employed. No missionary work of any kind is being carried on among them. How great the needs in the populous East!

A TEACHER at the head station school of one of our large African missions gives a little insight into the difficulty of developing outschool teachers from third- and fourth-standard [or grade] pupils: “We have some promising young teachers, but the unfortunate thing is that we have to put them to teaching before they are fully qualified. Before I came here, I had some experience in pupil-teacher training in a large public school, and then I formed the habit of always finding something encouraging to say to the least promising, so that he had always a peg to work from. This habit of always picking out a bright spot somewhere stands me in good stead here. I often think, ‘What would my old mistress of method say if she could hear that?’ But I doubt if white boys and girls would do any better if they had only third- and fourth-standard attainments.”