Notes From the Field by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 20, 1911

Notes From the Field

By Editor

THE Washington (D. C.) Sanitarium is now enjoying the largest patronage in its history. This is all the more encouraging for the reason that the summer months have heretofore given the lightest trade of the year.

THE report of the medical missionary work carried on in Hartford City, Ind., as given in the Medical Missionary department, is well worth reading. It illustrates what might be done in many other places by the same spirit and like methods of labor.

WE were pleased to greet in Washington last week Dr. Lydia Kynett Parmele, of the Florida Sanitarium. She brings good reports from her institution and from the work in the Southland. Dr. Parmele will spend some time in post-graduate work in the Johns Hopkins Medical School, of Baltimore.

THREE little brochures have come in from the India press, at Lucknow, printed in Bengali,—“Steps to Christ,” in paper; “Fundamental Principles of Seventh-day Adventists;” and “Is the End Near?” These afford a beginning in the translation of literature with which the brethren and sisters can work effectively for the people in the large sections where the Bengali language is spoken.

WE hope that all are laying plans to engage heartily in the Harvest Ingathering campaign the coming autumn. Read what Elder W. T. Knox says about this on page 11. The special number of the Signs of the Times, which will be brought out for use in this work, will be found a valuable medium. The new paper, with the reports from missions, cast in a new mold, and with new and original cuts, will prove valuable in the prosecution of the campaign. Let every reader of the REVIEW AND HERALD and every Seventh-day Adventist plan to have a part in this campaign in behalf of missions.

BROTHER W. H. Green calls our attention to a mistake in the printing of his report of last week, in which it was represented that some who had accepted the truth in Washington had done so as the result of the tent effort he was carrying forward. The tent effort did not begin until June 16; hence there has been very little time for the development of the effort. Those to whom Brother Green referred are persons who have identified themselves with us, or have become interested, through the general effort which has been made in connection with the church work for the colored people in the city.

THE annual announcement of the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary is now ready for distribution. Four years ago this summer the General Conference council recommended the establishment of this special training-school for missionaries; and each year has shown progress in the development of the plan. The present announcement, we believe, more nearly reaches the ideal. The practical plans for the training of ministers and Bible workers, the emphasis on the study of special mission fields by candidates for those fields, the study of the city problem, and the new post-graduate course for missionary nurses, including dispensary and hospital experience, appeal to us as timely arrangements. Elder Daniells, who has recently visited Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Servia, and Austria-Hungary, after receiving an outline of the plans for the Seminary work for the coming year, wrote: “As I have traveled over the vast territory of the European Division, I have become more deeply impressed than ever with the need of just such a school as we are developing at Takoma Park. It seems to me that we have now the truest conception of a training-school for missionaries we have ever had. Our ideal fits the field exactly.” For copies of the 1911-12 announcement, address the president, M. E. Kern, at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. If you expect to attend the school, ask for an application blank also.

BROTHER A. Pages, writing from Brazil, mentions that as the result of work done by a canvasser in San Bernardo, five were recently baptized. Brother John Lipke also reports that the whole city of Bahia is stirred through the circulation of our literature.

THE Australasian Record notes the sailing of Miss Olive Osborne from Avondale for China. Miss Osborne goes out to take up mission work for the Chinese. She writes courageously of her prospective work, and is glad of the privilege of helping to spread a knowledge of the truth in China.

WE take pleasure this week in giving to our readers a new department, “Gospel Workers.” This will be conducted by Elder A. G. Daniells. Brother Daniells solicits the aid of our ministers throughout the field in making this department one of help and encouragement to all our workers. Contributions designed for the Gospel Workers’ department should be sent directly to Elder A. G. Daniells, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., and not to the Review and Herald Publishing Association. While the department is designed particularly for our workers, the instruction from week to week will be found profitable reading for all.