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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jul 28, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 30.

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Society Islands

By L. A. Roth

PAPEETE, TAHITI.—We ought to be able to scatter our French literature all over this island, but we have hardly any to scatter. And as this is a place full of atheists, our literature is needed more than anything else. We are working all we can to tell the people of Christ's near coming; but they are in darkness, and seem to enjoy the darkness better than light. It makes our hearts ache to see how unwilling they are to listen to the word of God. It is indeed true here that entire darkness covers the people. I shall be satisfied only when I know that all here have been warned of the fate that awaits those who refuse to obey God in keeping his commandments.
May our dear Lord open the hearts of our people, that they may see their duty toward those who are in such hard fields, with almost everything going against their efforts to scatter the truth as it is in Christ Jesus. The ammunition of the soldier of Christ in such fields of labor is not only money, but literature. We could use much of this in the French language. Remember us in your prayers. L. A. ROTH.