p. 10 | Chinese Interest in Present Truth

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 21, 1916

Chinese Interest in Present Truth

A REPORT in China's Millions of a conference held in the province of Shen-si, says that a lively interest was manifested in considering the influence of Seventh-day Adventism, and the workers were urged to give circulation to books refuting our teachings. In more than one province of China inquirers have been sent to our workers in considerable numbers by the circulation of this same kind of literature. So long as the Word of God states that “the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God,” any agitation or effort to declare otherwise can only set people to studying the Word of God. At the same time a letter comes from Elder J. E. Fulton, speaking of the recent baptism of sixty-three believers in Hankow. “Being anxious,” he writes, “to ascertain just the proportion of these converts who had been in actual connection with other churches, I asked the brethren to examine the candidates to make inquiry; and of the sixty-three it was found that eight had been members of other denominations. Three or four of these had severed their connection some considerable time previous.” So the Lord blesses, and the heathen are being won, while at the same time, naturally, many connected with other societies become diligent in studying the truth for these times.