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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 20, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 16.

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Mission Notes

W. C. Walston reports a baptismal service at Solusi, Rhodesia, South Africa, when twenty-five were buried in the watery grave. The workers were greatly encouraged.
Last December a unique scene took place on the street of a certain city in Iowa. A corn pyramid was dedicated to missions after a short missionary sermon by a Methodist minister. The farmers had been invited to give to missions two sacks of shelled corn or four in the ear. This they willingly did, and the pyramid was built. A congregation was soon gathered by music, and the pyramid was dedicated to China. The money value was about thirty-one dollars.
The first native woman physician in the Philippine Islands, Dr. Olivia Salamanca, was graduated from the Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia in June, 1910. After spending the summer in Philadelphia, doing some special work in the study of tuberculosis, she returned to the Philippines, where she received from the medical board her license to practise medicine in the islands. She has been elected secretary of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society of the Philippines. Dr. Salamanca is a young woman who commands the respect of both Americans and Filipinos, and who gives promise of a very useful career.
Such reports as the following are especially encouraging when it is taken into account that after all the greatest need of the human heart is the indwelling Christ, the water of life poured into the soul through the ministry of the Word and the Holy Spirit: “From — I went to —, where meetings were begun in the church. We had a good attendance from the start; and when we came to the Sabbath, we had a Pentecostal blessing. I think I can safely say that I never was in a more powerful meeting. Every band was broken, and prisoners were set free. Confessions were made, wrongs corrected and made right, and backsliders reclaimed. The church is in the best condition that it has been since its organization.” How quickly everything can be cleared up when heartfelt confessions of wrong are made to one another. After all, this is the greatest work to be done in all the world. God will see that those without the church hear the message when the Pentecostal blessing comes to those within it.