In Java

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

Our first church in Java was organized June 23, 1912, with twenty-seven members. The next month the Soerabaya church was organized with nine members. On the mountains in east Java, three thousand feet above sea-level, are our two mission properties, purchased several years ago. These properties are now used as rest homes for the benefit of our workers. One sister is conducting a mission in Batavia. Two other workers are conducting a mission at Soerabaya.

Sumatra has a population of about four million. Fourteen years ago Elder Munson and family began work in Padang, the principal city of the west coast of Sumatra.

A beginning was made in that difficult pagan and Mohammedan city. Other laborers followed, and there is now a prosperous day-school of more than sixty pupils, and a Sabbath-school of more than thirty members. There is no church at Padang, but we still have workers there.