Switzerland by L. P. TIECHE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 8, 1908

Switzerland

By L. P. TIECHE

GENEVA.—Our Swiss and French camp-meetings are just over, and I am glad to be able to state that they have been a success in every respect. In connection with the Swiss meeting we had had a meeting of the Latin Union Committee. Elder J. Curdy has again been chosen president of the Roman-Swiss Conference. This conference will continue to pay a second tithe, and, besides, will support a worker in northern France. It has been decided to divide France into two parts, limit the French Conference to the south, and organize the north into a mission field. This will take place Jan. 1, 1909.

Brother Paul Steiner, who has been stationed at Algiers this last year, will remain in Switzerland to work among the many Germans of this country. Having the French and German languages at his command, it seemed best that he should undertake that work. Elder U. Augsburger, who has been laboring with success in Paris for several years, will go to Algiers. Thus we shall have ordained ministers in every field of our union conference. Brother Abella, a young Spaniard who has been three years in our school at Gland, will also go to Algiers, and give special attention to the many Spaniards of that city. Elder H. H. Dexter will undertake to work in Lyon with two others. When shall we be able to send laborers to Marseilles, Bordeaux, and other great cities of France? We long to give them the message of warning while there is yet time.

While we are thankful for all the blessings and encouragements we meet in our field, yet our hearts are made sad because we have been obliged to cut down the list of our workers, to bring our expenses within the appropriation which we receive. If our people in general, and perhaps especially in America, could see the sorrowful needs of one hundred ten millions of people living in the darkness of Romanism and Mohammedanism, and entirely unconscious, because unwarned, of the doom which hangs over their heads, the treasury of the Lord would be filled in a few days, and the work of warning the world would not be hindered by lack of money. We have in our union conference some most promising young people. Had we the means with which to train and support them, we could put one hundred consecrated laborers at work.

Our school will open its doors, October 1, with about twenty-five students. We shall have representatives from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland. I hope that next year we shall also have Algeria represented.

Our sanitarium is full of patients. Of late three of them have accepted the message, and have been baptized. We are all full of courage and hope, and thankful for the great privilege we have of laboring for the salvation of souls in these last days.

L. P. TIECHE.