The Work Is One

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

THE work is one. It is good to see how one field loves to help another far away. In a recent letter from Elder H. J. Edmed, president of the Natal-Transvaal Conference, South Africa, is the following: “One of our little companies felt an impassioned interest in China last Sabbath, when we took up the collections for home, for our China missionaries. The following is an extract from a letter just received: ‘We had a good service to-day. The program sent us by the union conference Sabbath-school secretary did not reach us until after the Sabbath-school was over, but we had arranged one for ourselves. Mrs. Mary Baumann read a paper on China, and our collection for the China Mission homes fund was £6, 2s., 9½d. It was suggested that it be made up to £7, and the amount was increased to £7, 16s., 9½d. (or about $38, I believe). We are now seeing absent members, hoping to make the amount £10 ($50).’ As this came from one of our small schools, at Durban, Natal, I felt it showed a spirit of liberality that was very commendable.”