Cheering Messages

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1911

Cheering Messages

BULAWAYO.—The workers at Solusi Mission send greetings to our American brethren. We are of good courage, and our work is prospering fully as well as at any time in the past. God blesses us and our work in many ways, for which we are truly thankful. Pray for us. W. C. WALSTON.

AUSTRIA.—I baptized two last night at Tyrol, near the Swiss border. Our work is spreading well in Austria. To-morrow I expect to start work in Triest. One hundred forty-seven believers have been baptized during the past twelve months in this field. We are of good courage in spite of all obstacles. J. WOLFGARTEN.

BENGAL, INDIA.—Through the raising of the $300,000 Fund, we have been enabled during this year to establish two mission stations in properties of their own, which is giving our work a different status in the eyes of the people. They see that our work is to be permanent, and not as our enemies have declared, like the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morrow is not. In our station at Karmatar we are just now erecting buildings. As an example of how the people have appreciated the work which has been done for them in the past, and their willingness to help carry on that work for the future as far as they are able, our sisters went among them and solicited means to help in the erection of a building in which to carry on dispensary work. They received over one hundred rupees, and that from people whose daily wage varies from two to eight annas per day. This is our first effort to obtain help from the people in this way, and we are glad for the response. It encourages us to go forward in the work, knowing that our efforts are accomplishing something. W. R. FRENCH.

KOREA.—We just returned from a place about thirty miles north of Wonsan. It was along the coast, where fishing is the principal industry. A foreigner had never been in that part before. The people are mostly raw heathen. One of our native workers had been there early in the summer, and had aroused an interest among a few. We visited the hamlets, trying to give away literature. Few are able to read, and many were afraid to accept the tracts. My helper said they thought the tract was some sort of contract, which, if they accepted it, would bind them to pay large amounts of money, or give officers the privilege of seizing them. The interested ones seemed anxious to learn, and promised to study the Sabbath-school lessons. We hope that they may develop into a bright light in that part of Korea. MRS. W. R. SMITH.