Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1916

The Gospels of Matthew and Mark have recently been translated into the Munchi, the vernacular of about 300,000 people in northern Nigeria. It is in the vicinity of this people that Brother D. C. Babcock is laboring.

While we are glad for the reports of large accessions in the populous countries, we are equally glad to hear of progress in the sparsely settled regions, where the difficulty of searching out the waiting souls is yet greater, possibly. Elder Isaac Baker, of the North Honduras Mission, Central America, reports that in spite of their meager financial resources, they have felt compelled to engage a faithful brother to take up work in the interior, where last summer six adults were baptized, and where now twelve others are reported keeping the Sabbath. Thus over the remote trails of Central America the truth is making its way. Speaking of work among the Spanish, Elder Baker adds, “We had a good convention here in La Ceiba, and at the close baptized seven adults.”