p. 24 | A Word from China

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

A Word from China

WE give the following items from a personal letter received from Brother and Sister M. G. Conger, who went to China with the large company sailing August 1:—

“The first two weeks of our visit in Shanghai have passed pleasantly, while awaiting the decision of the Division Committee as to our location. In a few days we start with Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Selmon and Brother and Sister R. D. Loveland for Peking. No work has been done in the capital province, so we have before us a large field. The first year we shall spend in the Peking language school, and then we hope to begin active work. As yet we have seen but little of the great China, but we have had a vision of her great need, and are anxious to do our part in meeting this need.

“Brother F. A. Allum is to have charge of the Shanghai school, and he has already started for his station, one thousand five hundred miles in the interior, to get his family. Brother and Sister C. L. Blandford and Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Andrews accompanied him, for they are to settle in that section, with Brother M. C. Warren. Brethren R. J. Brines, O. B. Kuhn, and H. O. Swartout, and probably others, will attend the Nanking language school during the winter. Brethren C. C. Morris and H. B. Parker go to south China, and Brother E. J. Urquhart to Korea. Brother Lyman Bowers remains at Shanghai to connect with the publishing house as secretary and treasurer. Brother J. G. White goes to a central province.

“We left the States wondering what those here would do with us,—the largest company ever sent out by our Mission Board at one time,—but when we saw how the brethren here had to figure and plan to answer the calls and fill vacancies, and realized that there were not enough of us to go round, there came home to us a sense of the greatness of the work to which we had come. We are glad we are here.”