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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 17, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 53.

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Hawaiian Mission

By F. H. CONWAY

F. H. CONWAY
The Lord is blessing his cause in the Hawaiian Islands. Some progress has been made during the year. I have been in this field a year this month [October]. Since my last report, in May, seven have been baptized, and several others have begun to keep the Sabbath, making eleven baptized and seven unbaptized Sabbath keepers for the year.
Our tract society, organized about a year ago, has sold over eight hundred dollars' worth of our truth-filled literature. One of our little Chinese boys has sold many of our magazines in the various languages, also some home workers' books. He is now having a good experience with the Harvest Ingathering REVIEW, and is happy in this work. He just brought in his first card filled with the names of those who are glad to help the cause of God.
We have begun work among the babel of languages found here, systematically canvassing each month these various nationalities with our different magazines, in the Korean, Japanese, and Chinese; also with the Hawaiian booklet, Portuguese tracts, and other literature. Sister Ada Robinson has faithfully worked up a good interest among these people, and many of them look forward to receiving magazines each month. We believe this work will give us some souls to go with us into the soon-coming kingdom.
Brother and Sister Robert McKeague have recently entered the island of Hawaii, the largest island of the group. They have opened treatment rooms in Hilo, a city of ten thousand inhabitants. They are also doing evangelistic work; and although they have been in their new field only a little over a month, they report a good interest, and find that the Lord has gone before them in opening up the work there.
The treatment rooms conducted by I. N. Bartholomew in Honolulu have received such a heavy patronage that it was necessary to add another trained nurse to his staff of helpers. Brother Yen Chin, one of our sanitarium-trained nurses, has done a good work in managing the treatment rooms at the Y. M. C. A. building in this city. They grant him the privilege of closing the rooms on Sabbath.
Our church school of twenty-three pupils was opened September 14, with Sister Matilda Tamka as teacher. Already we find the school a source of much encouragement to our brethren here, and we expect it to be a great blessing in the future work of our mission.
The membership of our Sabbath schools has increased twenty-five per cent. There has been a large increase intithes and offerings over the previous year. During the year three of our young people have been sent to Pacific Union College, and two others have left us, one going to St. Helena Sanitarium and one to Loma Linda Sanitarium to take the nurses' training course.
There is a growing interest among our people here to engage in individual missionary work, and some, aside from the regular mission workers, are experiencing the joy of seeing persons take their stand for the truth as fruits of their efforts. We are not satisfied with the results already obtained, and we are praying for a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit to fit us to do more effective work for the Master.