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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 15, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 7.

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Cook Islands

By GEO. L. STERLING

GEO. L. STERLING
As we read the columns of the good old REVIEW, and learn of the prosperity of the cause of God in the world to-day, it rejoices our hearts. The paper is always old by the time it reaches us, but full of truth which is ever new. Our courage to press forward with the message to the end was never stronger.
We have no startling news to report. We must here be content to labor along quietly, placing the truth before the people at every opportunity, scattering the autumn leaves of our literature, and leaving results with God. We are glad that we have a little literature in the Maori language. Another book is just off the press, and will be shipped to us shortly from Sydney. We plan to give this book a thorough circulation, and to do so as soon as possible. This field especially needs the printed page. Literature has a molding influence and a power to break down prejudice which nothing else possesses.
Our native paper, Tuatua-Moa, is doing a good work. We hope in the near future to increase quite materially its subscription list, thus making the paper more nearly self-supporting. We circulateabout twelve hundred copies monthly in a group of thirteen small islands. A little over one hundred copies are paid for yearly, at two shillings English money a year. The papers for free distribution are given out a month or two later. The news items are by that time old, thus a premium is placed upon the new paper.
News has reached us that Brother B. K. Piper and his wife, of New Zealand, have been appointed to this field. A letter received from Brother Piper states that they will come by the next steamer. Our hearts rejoice at this news, and we pray that the Lord will use our united efforts to the bringing of the message of Jesus’ soon-coming to the hearts of many in darkness in the Cook Islands. Pray for the success of God’s work.
Rarotonga.