In the Pacific

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 26, 1908

TRULY it was a missionary providence that Australia and New Zealand should have been set down close to the populous East Indies and the islands of the South Pacific, to become in these last days great English-speaking commonwealths, and the base of missionary operations for the island fields. Our brethren in Australasia have taken the burden of supervising and directing the evangelization of the East Indies and Poly nesia with the advent message. Over four thousand Seventh-day Adventist believers in Australasia are sharing in this burden.

Our Australian publishing house, near Melbourne, sold last year about eighty thousand dollars' worth of publications proclaiming this message of the coming of the Lord. The mission press for the island fields is in connection with the missionary training-school at Cooranbong, near Sydney. This press issues books and tracts in various vernaculars spoken throughout the islands. Students do the work.

The Avondale Training-school at Cooranbong had last year two hundred students enrolled, and is supplying helpers for the home and mission fields. It has had a remarkable history as an industrial school. The school farm a year ago contributed from its profits fifteen hundred dollars to the island mission funds. There is another training-school in West Australia, near Heidelberg, and a third in New Zealand.