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To the Fields in 1907

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 2, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 1.

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To the Fields in 1907

By W. A. S.

Though the last year witnessed the distribution of quite a company of recruits among the mission fields, the number sent out was not quite equal to that of the year before. In 1906 there were seventy-four in our list, including the wives. That is a large number to be added in one year. It meant the addition of no small amount to our financial estimates.
In 1907 workers were added to fields abroad as follows:—

JANUARY

S. Parker Smith and wife, to St. Andrews Island, Colombia, South America.
C. B. Hughes and family, to Jamaica, West Indies.
U. Bender and wife, to the West Indies.

APRIL

L. W. Browne, to Sierra Leone, West Africa.
J. O. Miller and wife, to New Brunswick.
W. E. Howell and family, to Athens, Greece.
Mrs. Kinner (accompanying W. E. Howell and family).

MAY

Dr. R. G. Edib and wife, to the Levant Mission Field, later assigned to Egypt.
F. G. Lane, to the West Indies.
Ida I. Shirley, to Utilla, Bay Islands, Central America.
Mrs. M. May Quantock and child, to India.
E. C. Cushman and family, to Jamaica, West Indies.
Dr. W. C. Dunscombe and wife, to Japan.
W. E. Gillis and wife, to Mexico.
Hugo Mekkenon, to Finland.
C. A. Nowlen and family, to British Honduras, Central America.

AUGUST

H. C. J. Walleker and family, to St. Thomas, Danish West Indies.

SEPTEMBER

R. L. Price and family, to Trinidad, West Indies.
G. F. Enoch and family, to Bombay, India.
J. E. Shultz and family, to Korea.

OCTOBER

Dr. H. N. Greaves and wife, to Great Britain for medical study, then to British Guiana, South America.
H. Giraldi, to Naples, Italy.

NOVEMBER

Dr. Chas. Cave and wife, to Barbados, West Indies.

DECEMBER

E. R. Williams and family, to South Africa.
W. E. Robbins and wife, to Australia.
The following laborers sailed from Australia for the mission fields:—
Miss Nellie Sisley, January, to the Tonga Islands.
Miss Anna Nordstrom, October, to Java.
Miss Mabel Lewes, October, to Singapore.
J. E. Steed and wife, October, to Fiji and Samoa.
At the September meeting of the Australasian Union Conference other laborers were appointed to the Malaysian and Polynesian fields as follows, though we have not had information as to the time of their sailing:—
Miss Nettie Carswell, to Singapore.
Andrew Stewart, to Fiji.
Miss J. Stephen, to Fiji.
G. E. Marriott and wife, to Fiji.
W. W. Parmer, to Tonga.
Miss M. Ella Boyd, to Tonga.
Miss T. Judge, to Java.
R. A. Caldwell, to Manila, Philippines.
From Great Britain, J. D. Baker and wife and Miss Thompson have gone to British East Africa during the year.
The Latin Union has supplied E. Fawer to Hayti, West Indies, and P. Steiner, to Algeria, North Africa.
From the Scandinavian field, in September, J. Persson and P. N. Lindegren were sent to the Italian colony of Eritrea, on the Red Sea, as a first step toward opening work in Abyssinia.
In supplying help to mission fields beyond its own borders, the German Union has sent A. Mertke, to Jerusalem, Palestine, and a worker or two to the Asiatic Russian field.
The workers named as having entered the field in 1907 number fifty-six, including the wives. Aside from these, are the eight appointed in Australia, of whose sailing we have not heard, but who may have entered the fields in the closing months of the year.
Altogether, it is evident that the pressure outward must keep the workers moving toward the great mission fields, as the work enlarges year by year. It is wonderful, as we think of the few thousands of believers, all told, who compose this denomination. The Lord is preparing workers and developing resources among those who believe that his coming is at the door. The year 1908 should see a still larger effort for missions. W. A. S.