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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 12, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 11.

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A Request for Teacher and Books

By Kuro

RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS, Nov. 11, 1907.
Mrs. Francis Waugh, Wahroonga, N. S. W.
To our much-loved sister in the Lord,—
Salutations to you. We greet you in the name of Jesus. It is I, Kuro, that is writing to you. I desire that you should present our request to the head of the Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. As we have read from time to time in the letters and papers that have been sent to us, our hearts have been made glad to know of the advancement of the gospel in different lands. We rejoice when we read our paper, Tuatua-Mou. It speaks the truth, and everything is made plain. We desire that the book upon the prophecies of Daniel be sent us. We have waited long for it, and our earnest wish is that it may also get out among the people and give light, as our little paper is now doing every month—in this generation.
We ask of you to press our petition before the chief of the Conference, that he be so minded as to send us a teacher for our children. We want our children to be fed upon the Word of God, and taught the lessons of service under its instruction. Let the new year open with this blessing upon us, and a teacher be here in our midst. Or, do we ask too much of you, when we do this? Perhaps our children are despised in the eyes of the Conference; it must be so, or otherwise our children would have been provided with a teacher. Still, it can not be so, for Jesus is no respecter of persons. He loved all alike. He invites all who are weary and heavy laden to come to him, and he will give them rest. In the same manner he calls unto him the children, in that he said: “Suffer little children to come unto me,” and hinder them not. We responded by giving our children to the Lord, but we can not have them taught for the Lord in other schools. It may be that we and our children have done wickedly, and so this is the reason why we have not had a teacher before now.
The Word of God exhorts us to “ask,” and the assurance is that “we shall receive.” Therefore we ask you to send us a teacher not only for our children, but for ourselves.
It is enough.
From KURO, Church Clerk.