p. 24 | Mission Field Workers and East Michigan Baptisms

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 17, 1915

Mission Field Workers and East Michigan Baptisms

SPEAKING of the great need for men of experience to help in supervising the work in our great mission fields, Brother R. C. Porter gives, as an illustration, Central China. He says: “Our needs are great. If the brethren who have to deal with these problems [of securing helpers] in the homeland could only pass through the field and see the real conditions, we should have no trouble in securing the needed help. Think of Central China, with more people than there are in the United States, and of the twenty-six churches and twenty-one companies to be looked after, with forty-six evangelists and sixty-two book and periodical canvassers; and all the field men there are to look after this entire work are Brethren R. F. Cottrell and Fred Lee—not another soul in the entire field prepared to go out and itinerate.” Let us pray that the Lord of the harvest will send forth more reapers; and as we pray, let us not withhold our gifts.

ELDER WILLIAM GUTHRIE, of the East Michigan Conference, sends us the following encouraging item: “The Lord greatly blessed us during the past month. Our tithe aggregated almost $14,000 for the month of May. The larger portion of this was received in a check for $10,000 from one person. The results of our work during the same month are also keeping pace with the income; for about seventy persons were baptized, and quite a large number are to be baptized in June, before camp meeting. Last Sabbath I baptized twenty-eight as the result of the work of one of our licentiates at St. Charles. I am sure you rejoice with us in this ingathering of souls.”