A Bulgarian Worker Needed in Macedonia

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 19, 1912

A Bulgarian Worker Needed in Macedonia

Just before the war broke out along the Turkish-Balkan border, Brother Scior, of the Grecian Mission, wrote the European Division of the General Conference thus: “I am compelled to call to you to-day from Macedonia, Come over into Macedonia and help us. In Stromnitz many are interested, and there are seven Sabbath-keepers there; six hours by foot farther on is a larger village, where fifteen persons are ready for baptism; then fifteen minutes farther on from this village is another, where ten families very urgently beseech us to teach them; and another Sabbath-keeper, on account of the illness of his father, went over to the Servian border, where there was another of like faith. I am quite sure that the number of believers will at least double if we can only get some one who can speak to the Bulgarians. There are more Bulgarians in Macedonia than Greek-speaking people. I could speak only by having what I said translated into the Turkish, for the men all understand Turkish, whereas only a few understand Greek; and if women were present, it had to be translated again into Bulgarian. A Bulgarian worker is badly needed here to labor among these people.”