p. 18 | Week of Prayer Greetings

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 28, 1912

Week of Prayer Greetings

Jerusalem

Ludwig Krug: “Our little church is strong in faith and happy in the Lord. In these days when war-clouds hover over and trade is down, we can say that the Lord is blessing us all the time, and opening doors for his precious truth.”

Southern Brazil

Waldemar Ehlers: “The Rio Grande do Sul Conference sends greetings to all. The Lord is blessing us richly in the advancement of the message. Our ten churches and nine companies, with 545 members, contributed eight thousand dollars for the work the past year. Ten church buildings are finished, and three more are being built, one in Porto Alegre, the capital, which has one hundred twenty-five thousand inhabitants. Our staff of workers is very small, but all are of good courage. Our ten canvassers have had much success, and souls are coming into the truth. The cause is the Lord’s, and it goes forward amid trials and difficulties, and we have all decided to hold fast to the work until Jesus comes.”

Jamaica

D. E. Wellman: “Greetings to our brethren everywhere from the island conference of Jamaica. Our hearts are filled with courage as we see the work of the Lord extending to all parts of the earth. We are having our struggles, trials, and perplexities, but the Lord is giving us the victory and filling our hearts with faith and hope. Our work is onward. Throughout our field our people are looking forward with earnest expectation to the week of prayer, when we shall all meet at the altar in our Father’s house.”

Hong Kong, China

Miss Ida Thompson: “We in Hong Kong have special blessings. During these months when so many have been called to leave their stations on account of the revolution, we have been free to sow seed and see it ripen into fruit. We expect to see an earnest company soon organized here. ‘Come ye apart, and rest awhile’ did not release the disciples from obligation. It released them from going out to the people; but the sea once crossed, the multitudes came to them, and Jesus said, ‘Give ye them to eat.’”

“Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. ’Tis loving and serving The highest and best! ’Tis onward, unswerving,— And that is true rest.”

“We need your prayers. I believe we are in a most important time in our work in China.”

Society Islands

F. E. Lyndon: “When we see native men and women dropping off their tobacco and coffee and worldly pleasures, and rising in meeting to speak of the love and goodness of God, and when we see the young desiring to work in the cause of God, we can but feel that the Lord is at work here, and is gathering out a people for his kingdom. Five or six will be baptized shortly and added to the church of believers in these islands. What a blessed time when all the believers are gathered together in the kingdom!”

Porto Alegre, Brazil

E. C. Ehlers: “We hope in a few weeks to have another baptism in this city. Catholics and others are studying the message. One business man told me the other day that he never felt satisfied with the Catholic religion and ‘Latin-murmuring priests.’ While we do not know just how some of these souls will turn, we believe in prayer, and it gives us courage to know that our brethren in the whole world are remembering the missionaries before the throne of grace.”

Amoy, China

B. L. Anderson: “My message is this: Another company in the Hokklo district, numbering twenty, has decided for the true Sabbath. Pastor Ang writes encouragingly of this company, and says the evangelist in charge has taken his stand with the members. From one of the stations north of Amoy comes word that ten persons are awaiting baptism. Thus the living message is onward. Pray the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers into this needy field.”

Publishing Headquarters, Brazil

Augusto Pages: “Though we have to battle against the weaknesses of the flesh, and the attacks of Satan leveled at the little company in this great field, we thank our dear Lord that he has chosen us to be workers with him. Three weeks ago we had the first baptism of four souls in Sao Paulo, the capital of our state, and others are soon to follow. The publishing work looks prosperous. Remember us in your prayers, dear brethren, that the Lord may keep us in health and in the faith.”