World-Wide Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 10, 1910

World-Wide Mission Notes

The Hon. Oscar S. Straus, American Ambassador to Turkey, has succeeded in obtaining a decision from the Turkish cabinet by which all foreign religious, educational, and benevolent institutions are exempted from certain provisions of the Ottoman law. This decision affects about three hundred American organizations, freeing missionary institutions from numerous restrictions, and permitting them to acquire and hold property in their own name.

Our two mission stations in Basutoland are organizing for better service. The Kolo Mission will be operated as a dairy farm in connection with the school and evangelistic work, and the Emmanuel Mission as a fruit and vegetable farm in connection with its public work. Brethren M. E. Emerson and H. C. Olmstead are experienced workers; so we believe that these stations, in addition to being an object-lesson for those whom they are established to benefit, will soon be largely self-supporting.

Elder W. H. Anderson reports the following, after visiting the out-schools in Barotseland, South Africa, on returning from his furlough to the United States: Number of schools, including home station, eight; number of students attending, 226; oxen at out-schools, forty-three; other cattle, fifty-one. In nearly every instance the mission farm is fully supporting the school work. Thus God is richly blessing the effort to impart light and help to the dwellers in this part of the great Dark Continent.

“From Greenland’s icy mountains” comes the glad word that the light of the gospel is breaking upon its shores. On the west coast, in a stretch of country reasonably fertile and pleasant, dwell about eleven thousand Eskimos. The gospel has obtained a strong foothold here; but the light of the third angel’s message, proclaiming the joyful news of the soon-coming Saviour, has not yet penetrated this region. The east coast is visited once each year by a ship from Denmark, bringing supplies to a missionary stationed there. Sometimes the ship is delayed during August by pack-ice, then Missionary Rosig must live solely upon walrus meat for a time. Sometimes his family are compelled to remain in bed to keep warm, as fires can not be built because of the fierce winds. But spring comes, even in Greenland, and then the sun quickly dispels the great white banks of snow. If people can live in Greenland, missionaries can live there also. And the people need the truth.