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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 1.

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To the Fields in 1908

By W. A. S.

THE growing list of missionaries entering the great unwarned fields bears cheering testimony to the rapid extension of the advent message. In 1907 fifty-eight missionaries, counting the wives, entered the fields. In 1908 the number was far larger. In fact, every month, and generally every week, saw missionaries bidding good-by to their home lands, and departing for all four quarters of the earth. The message is flying through the midst of heaven to every nation, and tongue, and people.
The following list of departures during 1908 is a token of the hastening end. Where the laborers have gone out from Europe or Australasia to fields beyond, the fact is noted. In all other cases the workers have gone from the United States:—

JANUARY

H. H. Winslow and wife, to China.

FEBRUARY

Louis Mobbs, Miss Tena Judge, and Miss Edith Ward, all of Australia, to Singapore, East Indies.

MARCH

Dr. H. W. Miller (returning) and wife, Elder R. F. Cottrell and wife, Bert A. Roberts and wife, Mrs. B. Moultrup and son, and Miss Pauline Schilberg, to China.
Miss Dehn, to Japan.
Robert S. Greaves and wife to Turkey.

APRIL

Homer C. Olmstead and wife, J. R. Campbell and wife, and S. Konigmacher and wife, to South Africa.
Walton C. John and family, to Argentina, South America.

MAY

W. J. Fitzgerald and family, to England.
E. C. Widgery and wife, to British Guiana.
A. L. Philbrick and wife, to Guatemala, Central America.
N. C. Bergersen and family, to Denmark.
John Bowers, to Mexico.

JUNE

Miss Bertha Fuller, to India.
Mrs. Edith E. Bruce, to India.
R. C. Porter and wife, to South Africa.
Miss Winifred Trunk, to Australia.
Miss Amy Boardman, from England, to India.
S. W. Carr and wife, and Bennie Tavodi, all of Fiji, to New Guinea, East Indies, to open our first work there.

JULY

George L. Sterling and wife, to the Society Islands.
S. H. Carnahan and family, to Cuba.
M. E. Emmerson and wife, to Basutoland, South Africa.
T. M. French and wife, to Sierra Leone, West Africa.
J. A. P. Green, Earl Hackett, John Brown, A. A. Reinke, to Mexico.
E. C. Wood and wife, to Jamaica.
Walter Foster and wife, to Japan.

AUGUST

Dr. Riley Russell and wife, and Miss Mae Scott, to Korea.
L. J. Mookerjee and family, to India.
Miss Jennie C. Nelson, to St. Thomas, Danish West Indies.

SEPTEMBER

J. van de Groep, of Holland, to the Dutch East Indies.
J. P. Novak, to Mexico.
C. L. Butterfield and family, to Korea.
H. Drangemeister and wife, M. Poenig, and W. Koelling, from Europe, to German East Africa.
W. Scholz, of Berlin, and Miss L. Brefin, of Switzerland, to Syria.
George Keough and wife, from England, to Egypt.
Misses Larson and Rhode, from Europe, to Abyssinia.
H. S. Prener and wife, to Brazil.
C. E. Knight and family, to Argentina.
F. E. Lyndon and wife, from New Zealand, to Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

OCTOBER

Miss Edythe Ayers and Miss Belle Shryock, to India.
Thomas J. Grenville and wife, from England, to India.
G. W. Reaser and wife, to Mexico.
J. E. Fulton and wife, and Kenelm Hungerford, from Australia, to Singapore.
E. E. Thorpe and wife, from Australia, to Java.
H. E. Piper and wife, from Australia, to Haapi Island, Tonga or Friendly Islands.
Reid Smith and wife, from Australia, to the Maori country, Tobago Bay, New Zealand.

NOVEMBER

A. N. Allen and family, to Peru.
Miss Annie Williams and Thomas Driver, from Australia, to Fiji.

DECEMBER

Robert A. Beckner, to Burma.
W. E. Perrin and family, and R. H. Leech and wife, to India.
C. P. Crager and wife, and Miss Mary I. Cobban, to South Africa.
Charles F. Knott and wife, to Brazil.
Arthur Warren and wife, from England, to Argentina, South America.
L. V. Finster and wife, from Australia, to the Philippines.
Miss Louise Scholz, to India.
Misses Calista Nelson, Anna Hansen, Frances Brockman, Meda Kerr, and Lillian M. Voris, to Argentina, South America.
E. C. Ehlers and wife, to Brazil.
W. W. Wheeler and wife, to Ecuador.

SAILING DATE UNKNOWN

U. Augsbourger and wife, and Jose Abella, of the Latin Union Conference, to Algeria, Northern Africa.
R. A. Caldwell and wife, from Australia, to the Philippine Islands.
Miss Nellie Sisley, from Australia, to Tonga, Friendly Islands.
Brother Thomas and wife, from Australia, to Pitcairn Island.
It totals up one hundred thirty-four workers, the largest number by far ever sent out in one year. In this list we do not count Dr. Miller, returning to China, nor have we a complete record of all who have gone from Australia and Europe into fields beyond. We have not counted the laborers sent from Europe into Siberia and Turkestan, nor those who have gone this year into Croatia and Silesia, Austria, to open new countries. These one hundred thirty-four laborers have been sent from the home fields of the message to regions beyond, and such a distribution in one year is a thrilling sign that the Lord is indeed finishing the work. It is a wonderful development. And what a responsibility this lays upon all believers to stand by with their prayers and their means as never before. W. A. S.