Spreading From Many Centers by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 27, 1908

Spreading From Many Centers

By W. A. S.

Not many years ago America was the only field able to send out supplies of men and means for work beyond its borders. The vast populations to be worked in the Protestant countries of Europe and in colonial lands consumed in each of these fields all the local resources.

But in recent years a great change has come. Other union conferences abroad have joined our American conferences in sending laborers and money into unentered fields. Every added season witnesses a most encouraging display of this new development in our work.

Here, for instance, is a brief note sent by Brother Guy Dail from the union meeting held last month in Germany:—

The most missionary conference, in many ways, that we have had in the German Union is just closed. Brother De Grup was recommended to answer the call from the East Indies for a Holland worker. Brethren Koelling, Poenig, and Drangmeister, chosen to go to German East Africa, were present. Two were selected for Syria, Sister Brefin, a nurse, and an additional male laborer, Brother Schultz, I believe. It was decided to open a new territory, Croatia, in Austria, a country with millions of people among whom no work has been done. Elder Schillinger goes there. Brother Janert, just ordained, goes to Rumania. Several of the students, also, enter these foreign lands.

Is it not cheering to see such a list of laborers sent out from a European union at one session? These European and colonial unions are now growing into strength, and supply centers for the yet unentered fields. It means the coming of strong reserve forces to join the efforts of the believers in America.

No longer is the vine of this message spreading forth only from America, where it was first rooted. It is rooted firmly in the soil of many lands, and is growing and spreading in every direction. That is the cheering spectacle presented to-day in the vineyard of the Lord of hosts. W. A. S.