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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 5, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 1.

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To Mission Fields in 1904

By William Ambrose Spicer

WE have not a long list to present of missionaries sent abroad in 1904. It was early recognized by the General Conference Committee that the staff of workers could not be largely increased without considerable increase in mission gifts. Nevertheless the pressure outward has thrust forth a goodly little band, whose presence in the fields is an added incentive to faithfulness during the next year in the support of the spreading work of foreign missions.
Here is the list:—
Miss Ottena Jensen, February, Argentine Republic.
Mrs. A. J. Hetherington, February, Central America.
I. E. Moore and wife, May, Cuba.
Elder F. H. Westphal and family, June, Chile.
Wm. Steele and wife, June, Chile.
T. H. Davis and wife, July, Ecuador.
Prof. H. C. Lacey and family, August, England.
C. E. Rentfro and wife, September, Portugal.
Elder H. H. Votaw and wife, October, India.
J. C. Little and wife, October, India.
Elder E. W. Farnsworth and wife, October, England.
J. B. Stuyvesant and family, October, Panama.
Miss Maude Harvey, October, Japan.
Elder W. D. McLay and wife, November, Scotland.
Elder W. W. Miller and wife, November, India.
Miss Della Burroway, November, India.
Elder Daniel Isaac and wife, November, Germany.
Elder C. E. Peckover and wife, November, Panama.
Miss Effie Willson, November, Panama.
Elder H. H. Dexter and family, December, France.
John Lipke and wife, December, Brazil.
Miss Pearl West, December, South Africa.
O. L. Dart and wife, December, Cuba.
From points abroad workers have entered mission fields as follows:—
J. G. Teschner, of Germany, nurse, entered Jerusalem in January; died of fever in July.
Brethren Wunderlich and Langhoff and wives, of Germany, February, to the German East Africa.
W. B. Robinson and wife, of Wales, June, Spain.
C. N. Moulton and wife, of Jamaica, to Porto Rico.
G. F. Jones and wife, of Rarotonga Islands, to Singapore, October.
Robert Caldwell, of Australia, to Singapore, October.
Workers on furlough have returned to fields as follows:—
Elder J. E. Fulton and wife, from Australia to Fiji Islands, about July.
A. H. Piper and wife, from Australia to Rarotonga.
Mrs. Ida M. Fischer and daughter, from Porto Rico, returned in October.
John Lipke and wife, from Brazil, returned in December.
It is a formidable list, after all, for a quiet year in forwarding recruits. Counting the wives, but not the children, it represents a force of forty new workers sent out to the fields from America, besides a few returning after short furlough. In addition to these, fourteen workers already abroad entered new fields. We face the new year with everything to cheer us. Pray for these new laborers, and for the old, and let us expect great things from God in 1905.
W. A. S.