p. 24 | Progress in Oran and Missionaries for China

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1916

Progress in Oran and Missionaries for China

THE following word has just come from Brother W. E. Hancock, who has been laboring for some time in Oran, Algeria: “We are glad to be able to report a continued increase of interest, and steady progress in the work in and around Oran. Almost every Sabbath meeting is attended by newly interested persons. We have a Sabbath school with a membership of twenty-five. Six members have been added to our church since the beginning of the year, and eight persons will probably receive baptism before the close of 1916. We have adopted the plan of giving weekly instruction to the candidates for baptism on the different points of faith and on the duties of church members, for some months before they take this step. We find that it works well for those who have just come out of Romanism. For such converts there is a double work to be done,—that of removing the rubbish of error upon which their former hope was founded, and that of building their faith on the true and firm foundation of the gospel of Christ. The prospects for the work in the city of Oran and its vicinity are most encouraging.” A full report from Brother Hancock will be presented later.

THIS week four missionaries are sailing from San Francisco by the steamship “Venezuela,” for China. Elder and Mrs. S. A. Nagel and family return after furlough. They will resume their work among the Hakkas, in south China. Two new workers accompany them, Brother and Sister A. J. Wearner, both nurses of the St. Helena Sanitarium. They have spent the last year at the Pacific Union College. The work among the Hakka people has been seriously interrupted by the breaking down of the health of workers in that region, and we are thankful to see reinforcements entering the field.