p. 17 | In Singapore

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1905

In Singapore

THE Eastern Daily Mail, of Singapore, prints the following notice of our mission in that metropolis of South-eastern Asia:—

“With growing prosperity, the Seventh-day Adventist Mission has had to move into larger quarters. Mr. Jones, the head of the mission, is removing to the large house on the hill off Niven Road. Mr. Davey, the hydropathic physician and masseur, has established a small sanitarium and sales-room of health foods at No. 18-A Wilkie Road.

“Here the various kinds of apparatus used by this school of medicine, if such it may be called when all medicine is forbidden, have been set up. Notwithstanding the bitter opposition of the non-conformist bodies, this new sect seems to be prospering here.

“Other missionaries are complaining that the Adventists are taking away their adherents, or trying to do so. The same might be said of the other non-conformist missionaries when their work was first started here, who secured many from the established church. The ‘retort courteous’ from the Adventists doubtless is that if the other sects and their teachers have not appealed to the intellects and hearts of the people who have been their followers sufficiently to hold them, it is well for these dissatisfied ones that they have some one else to turn to.

“Certainly some of the doctrines of this new sect appear to most of us most peculiar, because of their novelty, perhaps. They believe that the divine command is to keep holy Saturday, and that the keeping of Sunday in no sense is sufficient or pleasing to the Deity. They think and believe in the total annihilation of the wicked, and that all the dead are in a state of somnolence between death and the second coming of Christ.”