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Week of Prayer in the Philippines

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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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Week of Prayer in the Philippines

By L. V. FINSTER

WE have just closed our week of prayer in the Philippines. Our seasons are the opposite to those of the States, so we find it more convenient to hold our week of prayer at this time. It being a new service to most of the people, I appointed it at different weeks for the different churches, that I might be present. During the meetings it was very rainy, and I was wet most of the time while traveling from place to place, but the Lord came very near to his people. Many found new experiences with the Lord. Many wrongs were righted, and hearts broken as they sought the complete deliverance.
Thus far we have baptized eighty-three from our past summer’s work. The Spirit of the Lord is working on the hearts of men wherever the laborer goes, and the calls are many more than we can fill.
The work is progressing well in the new stations that we opened this year. Our brethren are working hard on the language, and already have many believers studying the message from Sabbath to Sabbath.
Our church in Manila is taking a very active part in missionary work. The members are selling from 200 to 250 copies of our native paper every month, besides many tracts, and are doing other work for the Lord.
Our little printing press is very busy these days, as we are printing a five-thousand edition of a three-hundred-page book, besides the regular work of our thirty-two-page monthly paper. We have also printed many tracts in Tagalog, Cebuan, Panayan, and Ilocano.
Our brethren are of good courage, and are working hard for the finishing of the work of the Lord in the earth.
L. V. FINSTER.