Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 20, 1916

THE Malamulo Mission, our main mission in Nyasaland, has received requests for opening ten outschools this year, but they have decided to add only four. At a recent Sabbath service there, over three hundred were present, at which time twenty-eight were baptized.

A GOSPEL worker in North India used this metaphor in describing how the gospel is making headway there amid the dense heathenism. He says: “The word of God is working among the people of this district like the white ants.” Those who know how persistently and thoroughly yet silently white ants work, will appreciate the aptness of this comparison.

GIDEON, one of the native boys at Tsungwesi Mission, Rhodesia, sought permission recently to go out to a kraal, about a day’s journey, to spend the Sabbath in teaching his native brethren the truth. This is the first request from the students at this mission to go out in missionary work. They have this year an enrolment of seventy boarding students. So far the native commissioner has refused to grant requests for opening outschools, but Brother Jewell is carefully working with the end in view of obtaining this permission.

BROTHER M. C. WARREN, in sending in a large order for Chinese Signs subscriptions to Shanghai, tells of openings which the two Chinese colporteurs have found for giving the message. At one place, Wan-hsien, those interested sent a man to our mission to plead for a worker to come to them and teach the truth. At a village about thirteen miles from the above place, where there is a company of one hundred or more interested, they offer to furnish a chapel and other needed equipment for a worker to labor in their midst. These are the beginnings in the urgent calls to come in the opening of our work in the great Szechuan Province of west China.