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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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Manchuria

By B. PETERSEN

B. PETERSEN
The longer I am here in Manchuria, the greater the need seems to me. We are constantly receiving letters asking us to come to this or that place to instruct the people. Just two days ago we received a letter from the south asking us to open up a chapel among the people there, as they were anxious to hear this message; and today I have answered a letter from a place north of us, from which I have had three letters asking if I would not soon come to give instruction. It was stated in the letter that five or six were much interested in this message. There are still other places that we have not been able to visit or to provide help for.
We see the signs of the times being fulfilled all about us, even here in Manchuria, and realize that we have but a short time in which to work. We must push forward as fast as possible while the opportunity is so favorable as at present.
I have just returned from Liao-yang, a large city south of Mukden, where we have a new station. We sent a canvasser there some months ago, and the literature he has scattered has already borne fruit. At this station two brethren have long waited to follow their Lord in baptism, so they accompanied me to Mukden, where they, with two others from Mukden, were baptized in the Hun River. This is our second baptism in Manchuria.
Although, of course, we have not yet a great number of believers, we feel we have made a good beginning. Five others are studying the Bible with us, but we did not feel free to receive them into the church as yet; so they will continue studying during the winter, and we hope by next spring they, with others, will be ready to go forward in baptism.
We have also opened a station in the north, and it is reported that there is a good interest there. In a week or so we shall begin a series of meetings in our new chapel here in Mukden, and we believe the Lord will give us a good harvest of souls. We are all well and of good courage.