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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 63.

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En Route to the Orient

By Arthur G. Daniells

THIS is Friday afternoon, so we have been on the ocean a week and a day. The voyage has not been a pleasant one for the passengers generally. We have had sunshine only a part of one day. The rest of the time it has been very cloudy, with a cold wind coming down from the Aleutian Islands, and the sea has been quite rough. Most of our company have been seasick more or less. Yet on the whole, we have fared very well.
We shall be due in Yokohama in three days. As our Japanese brethren know we are coming, they will be sure to meet us, and to keep us busy while our boat remains in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki, in each of which we shall be from six to twelve hours. From Nagasaki we are to sail direct to Manila.
We are hoping that we shall be able to organize a conference in the Philippines. We now have nine hundred church members there, and perhaps two hundred others are keeping the Sabbath. As far as numbers are concerned, there is no reason why we could not organize a conference in that field. They now have a good publishing house, and the field work is being operated successfully. They have a training school, with probably seventy-five or one hundred students. The St. Helena Sanitarium has authorized us to take immediate steps to establish well-equipped treatment-rooms and a dispensary in the city of Manila. That institution promises to send a physician and a head nurse. The total expense is to be met from the earnings of the sanitarium, which already has $5,000 on hand with which to equip the plant, and place the doctor and nurses in the field.
We shall have an important conference in Asia. At that time we must face the problems of half the world. It will be a wonderful meeting. In many respects it will be far more thrilling and inspiring even than a General Conference session. As we cross the day line, this vast field begins to loom up in all its great proportions, needs, and possibilities.
A. G. DANIELLS.