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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 11.

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Opportunities in a Needy Field

By E. P. Auger

To facilitate the work of giving the third angel's message to the people of New Orleans, the members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of this city were organized into a society, called the Home Missionary Society, and committees were appointed to oversee the work of the society among the several nationalities to which its members belong,—the German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Greek, Bohemian, and Chinese.
Our people here are not able to do as much as in some places in donating to the work, most of them being women whose husbands are not favorable to the truth. Yet they are doing nobly, especially in foreign mission donations, and for the work in their city have given very liberally according to their means. They would be able to do much more than they are doing if they had the means to buy literature to use in their work. This city is one of extraordinary opportunities. People of all nations are here. They come from and go to every part of the globe.
The members of the committee on distribution in public places go out once each week with all the papers they can gather. In one place over two hundred persons ask for papers each week, but the committee has only about seventy-five.
The ship committee can go out with papers in one language only, while people of four or five different nationalities beg for papers in their own language, to take to their home land. It is sad, but we are unable to give what we do not have.
In the hospital for sailors, men of more nationalities than are represented in our church beg for something to read in their own tongue. And when some of them write for more, we often have to tell them No.
For these reasons we are asking the publishers of our foreign papers and magazines to place notices in each, asking for papers, magazines, tracts, and pamphlets to be sent to our society, prepaid, for free distribution and to lend. Our people will use them judiciously. Address all literature to Miss B. Johnstone, 1614 Erato St., New Orleans, La.
E. P. AUGER.