Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 28, 1911

Editorial

By Editor

Activities Abroad

It is really a wonderful thing that we see from week to week as the reports pass before our eyes. It is the moving panorama of the closing work of God in the earth that we are watching as we read these reports. Those who study the news from the fields, and keep track of the meaning of these things, may understand that the Lord is finishing his work and is cutting it short in righteousness.

What a spectacle Europe presents! A few years ago it was counted a mission field. To-day the body of believers in the European Division, twenty-five thousand strong, are bearing the burden of carrying the message to a third of the world’s population.

Over in Australia and New Zealand, a few years ago counted mission fields to receive help from the mission treasury, about five thousand believers have taken upon themselves the burden of the work for the forty millions of the South Sea islands.

Thus the reenforcements are swinging in, shoulder to shoulder with the North American Division, to press the battle of truth to final victory. And other portions of the field are on the way.

We in America are accustomed to the annual camp-meeting and conference. Here is the list of the autumn, winter, and spring meetings in Europe. We could tell the beginning and end and number of these meetings in briefer space, but the list just as it appears in the European committee minutes tells the story in a way to convey most vividly the impression of the stirring activity going forward all the time in Europe. These are the annual meetings, beginning the last of September. The list shows the conference or mission, and sometimes the town in which the annual meeting is held:—

Austria ........................ Sept. 13-17 Spain .......................... Sept. 21-25 Algeria ........................ Sept. 28-30 Constanta, in the Balkans .... Nov. 8-12 Transylvania .................. Nov. 15-19 Hungary, in Budapest .......... Nov. 22-26 East Prussia, in Tilsit ....... Dec. 22-26 Vistula, in Bromberg .......... Dec. 27-31 Silesia, in Brieg ............. Jan. 3-7 Saxony, in Chemnitz ........... Jan. 10-14 Middle German, in Gera ........ Jan. 17-21 Oder, in Cottbus .............. Jan. 24-28 East German Union District, in Berlin .... Jan. 31 to Feb. 4 Upper Rhenish, in Koblenz ...... Dec. 22-26 Lower Rhenish, in Essen ........ Dec. 27-31 South German, in Heidelberg .... Jan. 3-7 Swiss Audit .................... Jan. 8 Bavaria, in Augsburg ........... Jan. 10-14 West German, in Cassel ......... Jan. 17-21 North German, in Bremerhaven ... Jan. 24-28 West German Union Audit, in Hamburg .... Jan. 29, 30 West German Union District, in Hamburg ... Feb. 2-4 East German Union Audit, in Berlin ....... Feb. 5-7 Latin Union .................... Feb. 14-17 British Union .................. Feb. 19-22 Russian Union .................. April 11-18 European Division, in Skodsborg .......... April 26-29 Danish Conference and Scandinavian Union . April 29 to May 5 Norway, in Christiania ......... May 7-12 Sweden .......................... May 14-19 Finland ......................... May 21-26

Here there are bodies of believers rising, organized into mission fields and conferences for mutual encouragement and the swifter prosecution of the work in every continent. The third angel’s message of the prophecy was to show as its fruitage a people keeping “the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” That message is spreading to all lands, and everywhere the fruitage is seen. W. A. S.