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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 30, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 64.

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To the Fields in 1915

By W. A. S.

Again as we look back from the open door of the new year, we see that the Lord of the harvest has been sending forth laborers into the whitening fields abroad. Nearly two thousand years ago the prophet on the isle of Patmos saw a people keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus, pushing on toward every nation and kindred and tongue and people with the last message of the everlasting gospel. Year by year we see this prophecy of the latter days fulfilling, and month by month the messengers are bidding good-by to friends and dear ones, and launching forth into the depths of the world's great need.
During 1915 the departures were as follows:—

MARCH

R. J. Brown and family, to China.
R. L. and Mrs. Kimble, to India.
R. B. and Mrs. Owen, to Korea.
Clarence C. and Mrs. Hall, to Japan.
D. Nicholson and wife, from Australia to the Solomon Islands.

APRIL

W. E. Straw and family, to South Africa.

MAY

Geo. R. E. McNay and family, to South Africa.
Geo. C. Jenks and family, to South Africa.
Miss May Pontey, from Australia to Samoa.

JUNE

D. D. and Mrs. Fitch, to Porto Rico.
Mrs. D. A. Fitch, to Porto Rico.

JULY

C. V. and Mrs. Achenbach, to Peru, South America.
H. A. B. and Mrs. Robinson, to Spain.
A. W. Knight, from Australia to India.
Miss Millie Sauerwein, to Peru, South America.
Miss Ruth McCully, to Cuba.
Miss Irene Fourie, from Natal to Nyasaland, British Central Africa.

AUGUST

R. T. Baer and family, to Argentina, South America.
Eugene Leland (returning) and wife, to Bermuda.
V. D. Hawley and family, to Cuba.
Chas. M. Paden and family, to Honduras, Central America.
G. S. Joseph, from Australia to India.
W. Joseph, from Australia to India.
A. C. and Mrs. Chesson, from Fiji to India.
Edgar H. and Mrs. James, from Australia to China.
Clarence H. and Mrs. Davis, from Australia to China.
H. J. and Mrs. Hurlow, from Cape Colony, South Africa, to Nyasaland.

SEPTEMBER

J. M. and Mrs. Howell, to Peru, South America.
J. Wilson and Mrs. Rowland, to Malaysia.
I. C. and Mrs. Schmidt, to Malaysia.
Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Davenport, to China.
Chas. F. and Mrs. Glascock, to China.
Roland and Mrs. Loasby, to India.
L. T. Heaton and family, to the Hawaiian Islands.

OCTOBER

J. G. and Mrs. Gjording, to China.
Miss Edith Frye, to Porto Rico.
Miss Ethel Frye, to Porto Rico.
C. T. and Mrs. Everett, from Australia to Singapore.
H. A. Skinner, from Australia to India.
R. A. Thrist, from Australia to India.
C. Stafford and family, from Australia to India.
Eric B. and Mrs. Hare, from Australia to Burma.

NOVEMBER

C. F. Neumann and family, to Argentina, South America.

DECEMBER

C. M. Snow and family, to Australia.
O. Montgomery and family, to South America.
This list totals seventy-seven missionaries newly entering the fields. We do not list those who are returning after furlough. The list for 1914 totaled 103. The great war in Europe has made it impossible for the European Division to send out workers as formerly; in fact, in the list this year there does not appear one appointment from that division to any of the fields. Yet seventy-seven new missionaries sent out in one year is still a cheering and remarkable record. That it is possible to commission so many is due to the fact that in all our churches the brethren and sisters are praying and working and giving for missions, never forgetting that the pressure is upon us continually. With volunteers ever ready to forsake all and go, and with consecrated hearts bringing into the treasury the gifts for missions, the Lord is leading his people on to the finishing of the work.
W. A. S.