Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 3, 1916

BROTHER F. A. DETAMORE, in a letter dated May 10, says that the workers have purchased a good location in Batavia, Java, for their headquarters, and desire to build as soon as the money reaches them. “The next day after we bought it,” he writes, “the owners were offered more for it; and if we had not bought it, I do not know where we could have found a suitable place. We feel that the Lord guided us in the matter. More than forty houses are under construction in that part of the city now, and land is selling every day. Our place is about six feet above the level of the streets, and on a good corner.”

MUKDEN, Manchuria, had a bomb throwing, Sabbath, May 27. The military governor was out, and two bombs at two different places on his route were hurled. He was not hit, however, and escaped to his palace unharmed; but at least three soldiers escorting him were blown to atoms, and quite a large number were wounded. Mrs. Grundset was coming home from Sabbath school in a jinrikisha at the time, and was near the first bomb when it exploded. A great tumult at once ensued, and she rode into an alley, passing near the place of trouble without knowing what had happened. It was not far from the mission that the tragedy occurred.

An interesting providence in connection with the war internment camps in Australia is the case of Brother E. Bernoth, a teacher in the church school at Wahroonga, New South Wales. Brother Bernoth is of German parentage, and on account of residing in British territory was required to report periodically to the military authorities. Having neglected to do this once, he was suspected of disloyalty to the British government, and was arrested and sent to a German detention camp. He was later released, however, on the ground that, his father having been naturalized, his children would be British subjects; and also because of the good report of the police in his district. While he was in the camp, he interested two young Germans—And brothers—in the truth, and they decided to keep the Sabbath. It was at Brother Bernoth’s request that he was permitted to spend the first Sabbath with them.