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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 3, 1907

From Amoy, China

STILL the workers in Amoy are having stirring experiences. Elder W. C. Hankins writes:—

“You say that the progress of the work in this field reads like a romance, but if you were here to see the way God is working on the hearts of these people, it would appear more wonderful yet, for I have not been able to tell you half of what we have seen and heard.”

“We just returned the first of this week from another visit to Tsoan Chin. There are now about twenty there who have taken their stand for the Sabbath. Sunday afternoon there were about thirty who came to inquire concerning the truth. Each one who accepts the truths we teach immediately begins working for others. Thus, with almost no effort on our part, the Spirit of the Lord is causing this work to spread much after the manner of a prairie fire. No one can say of the work in this province, ‘This is my work, I have done this.’ It is God’s work, and he is allowing us a small part in it, that we may be partakers of the blessing and the joy. Day by day we are led to see more clearly than ever that God is able and willing to make a short work on the earth, and that this is the beginning of the end.”

“If you chance to meet some one who has a good typewriter he would like to give to a needy field, we could make good use of it here at Amoy.”

“When some one becomes interested in our work here, and gives money to help it along, he, naturally, likes an occasional report, and so in the course of a year we write a great many letters. Then we are still keeping in touch with interested friends in the States, which, with our letters to the home folk, reports to the Mission Board and to the Iowa Conference, etc., make quite a bit of letter-writing. So if some one can give us a typewriter, we shall be very glad.”