p. 24 | Missionaries to Alaska and South Africa

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 7, 1910

Missionaries to Alaska and South Africa

If the great majority of our missionaries must labor in countries where the intense heat a greater portion of the year taxes their vitality to its utmost, it is refreshing to know we have a few at least scattered among the northern regions, where icebergs are common, and no inconvenience comes from the oppressive rays of the sun. Two brethren in Alaska write that a person can stand by the side of a glacier of freezing ice, and with one hand resting upon it, with the other can easily grasp the twigs of growing trees.

E. C. Silsbee and wife, née Lawry, sailed from New York, July 2, for South Africa. These young people are responding to an earnest plea made by Elder W. H. Anderson, while here on furlough this spring, for help in extending the work at the Barotseland Mission. Brother and Sister Silsbee are from Southern California, having been connected with institutions there in preparatory work. They stopped over a few days in Washington.