Greetings of Our Missionaries from Across the Pacific

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 23, 1916

Greetings of Our Missionaries from Across the Pacific

We, the members of the missionary party en route to the Far East, thinking you would appreciate a souvenir from the largest party of missionaries ever sent out by the Seventh-day Adventists, send you this letter with our signatures. Our party numbers forty-two adults and six children. A man and his wife will locate in Japan, one or two families in the Philippines, one in Malaysia, and the rest in China. Our voyage has been a safe and very pleasant one, with but little seasickness and few stormy days. We appreciate very much the privilege we have had of associating together for almost a month, and the ties of friendship formed will not soon be broken. We have enjoyed Elder Porter's Bible studies and Elder Cottrell's language lessons.

We were privileged to spend one day in Honolulu, where one hundred and twenty sat down and dined picnic fashion in the shade of a banyan tree; and we spent three days in Yokohama. In both places our brethren made our stay very pleasant and profitable.

Our experiences during this voyage have increased our faith in the promises of God, and have led us to understand better our mission to the lost. Realizing that there will be a glad reunion when the work is finished, we give ourselves heart and soul to our task, and feel assured that you will share in the reward for whatever success God may give us.