The Polynesian Field

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jan 12, 1911

The Polynesian Field

The first issue of the Union Conference Record, the official organ of the Australasian field, giving the reports from different island fields, as well as from the home territory, presented at their recent union conference, has been received. These reports reveal an expansion of the message that is truly encouraging. Every superintendent from the island section presented imperative need for additional facilities with which to meet the demands of God’s opening providence before them.

“Our Pitcairn Island people,” reports Brother F. E. Lyndon, “are faithful, as a whole, in paying their tithe, most of which is sent us in arrowroot. The school work seems to be prospering. The people are pleased with Brother Carey as a teacher. He is a mechanic, and is able to help the islanders erect their houses and improve their places.” But he may not remain long with them. “This field,” the Eastern Polynesian Mission Field, Brother Lyndon continues, “from a human standpoint seems a hard one; but when God waters it with the dews of divine grace in answer to the prayers of his people, there will truly be responses from honest hearts when the truth is brought to them.”

Thus the message, pressed forward by the faith of Jesus in the hearts of the remnant, wins its way into the dark quarters of the earth.