E. HOWSE by E. HOWSE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 1, 1910

E. HOWSE

By E. HOWSE

Samoa

E. HOWSE

Samoa’s dusky sons and daughters call for help,—a people warm-hearted and care-free, possessing little and needing less,—a people who are clean, intelligent, and religious, and well satisfied as regards both this life and their expectations concerning the hereafter.

Practically all of them, numbering

about thirty-nine thousand, belong to one or another of the Christian sects at work here; but few, indeed, practise what they profess. They need a gospel that will help them to put away their old habits, which have been handed down from heathenism, and which cause so much disease among them. The message must be given to these people. They constitute a part of the nations, tongues, and peoples to whom the message is to go in this last generation of men.

Our work was started here a number of years ago, but with all the changes that have come, we have yet to establish our first company. The workers have returned to the home land through failing health, and one has laid down her life for the truth.

We have tracts in the Samoan language, dealing with six phases of our truth. These are read with interest; but when the people see the truth, and admit that they should obey, they step back, and their old associations hold them. What shall we do to help these people? The very fact that they do not know their need is a call to us to help them. Shall we withhold that which is life-giving from those who are ready to die? The islands of the sea, by their great need, are calling for help. And we are called upon by God to supply their need by the very fact that he has given us a knowledge of his truth.

Apia.