Where an Organ Would Help

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 14, 1916

Where an Organ Would Help

A FIRE at one of the stations of the Lake Titicaca Indian Mission recently destroyed all the contents of the straw-thatched house where Elder C. V. Achenbach was living. “Sabbath morning, as the Indian brethren and sisters came to meeting,” Elder Achenbach writes, “and saw the ruins, they wept aloud, and put their arms around us to comfort us.”

The organ was burned. Elder Achenbach says: “The Indians miss the organ very much. They used to carry it to and from the meetings every Sabbath. They wanted to sing for hours at a time, while Mrs. Achenbach played for them. Our Indian boy was learning to play hymns nicely.”

Now Elder Achenbach asks if it may not be that somewhere there is a good organ, not much used, that the owner will donate to this Indian mission station, for the new church, nearing completion, in which Elder Achenbach had planned to use his own organ. To ship for such a distance the instrument should be a good one in good condition. Any one having such an organ to give, is requested to write to the Mission Board, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.