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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 14.

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Singapore

By G. F. Jones

RECENTLY we have had the pleasure of baptizing seventeen believers in this field. There are seven or eight who are coming along well, and we hope will soon be ready for baptism. One of those baptized was eighty-three years of age. She had been a pagan, and had persistently opposed Christianity, but finally surrendered herself to Christ. Two others were sixty-three years of age. These are twins, and are daughters of the first native convert of the Straits Settlements. The fact that they have disconnected from their old church and joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, while holding the unique honor of belonging to the first Christian family, has caused some alarm among the other missions, and with greater vigilance they attend to their other converts, lest the advent message should influence them.
Our two Chinese lady workers, Sister Sim Gee Nio, who recently worked in Surabaya, and Sister Chan Teck Sung, who had sold a thousand of “Christ Our Saviour,” are now both doing a systematic house-to-house work in Singapore, and meeting with a number of educated Baba Chinese, who are becoming interested in the truth.
The Sabbath-school membership of the Singapore Mission has reached 110; ten of this number belong to the Kuala Lumpur Sabbath-school, where Brother and Sister R. P. Montgomery have gone to labor. Some of the better class of people there are reading our literature, and are becoming interested in the truth, while several of the Tamil people have left the Catholic Church.
A few days ago, at a leading auction-room in this city, there was some lively bidding over a book. It started at fifty cents. The book was examined by several persons, and it was noticed that some, on seeing the title, dropped it as if they feared a serpent would bite them. They are members of a prominent church here. Several others, who are wealthy merchants, carefully examined the book. It was faded and old and seemed of little value, but the bidding continued, rising at the rate of fifty cents a bid, until the book was knocked down finally on the sixteenth bid to one of Singapore’s wealthiest young merchants. The book was “Daniel and the Revelation,” cloth cover. G. F. JONES.