News From Persia and the Yearbook by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 4, 1915

News From Persia and the Yearbook

By Editor

SOME time ago we received our first news from Persia since the outbreak of the war. Then the postal gateway seemed to close again. We were glad to get last week another report from Brother F. F. Oster. We shall publish his full report in another number. Brother Oster reports all well, though confusion and turmoil are all about, with heavy engagements but a few miles distant. “We are of good cheer,” he writes, “and have the peace of God abiding in our hearts. It is indeed a comfort to know in whom we have believed. We know that God, if it is his will, will suffer no harm to come to us; and if the Kurds should come and carry away our belongings, we shall still trust in God and give glory to his name.” Maragha, our mission station, lies within two days’ march from the Russian border.

TEACHERS in our schools will find in the forth-coming Yearbook a new feature that must prove of great service in the study of our mission fields in connection with the geography and mission classes. Beginning with this year, the mission fields are contributing to the Yearbook an annual survey of progress and development. The new Yearbook will present an extended review of the work in the mission fields during the year 1914. The material thus contributed, fresh from the various mission headquarters, makes an intensely interesting story. We are glad to see this new feature in the Yearbook. It is planned to continue this survey annually, so that our Yearbooks may present a consecutive history of the development of the work in the lands abroad.