THE WORLD-WIDE FIELD

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 16, 1910

THE WORLD-WIDE FIELD

In the European Division

The European Division of our General Conference includes also North Africa and the Levant, with Siberia and Turkestan in Asia, and East Africa. (Our review of this latter field appears, however, under Africa.)

Only thirty-five years ago the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary to cross the seas, Elder J. N. Andrews, landed in Latin Europe. During these years the European work has grown into such proportions that the European Division now joins in sending men and means into the mission fields beyond. Therefore we give but the briefest notes on the work in the stronger fields of Europe, emphasizing only the portion recognized as distinctively mission territory, the strongholds of Roman and Greek Catholicism.

LAST YEAR IN EUROPE

Reviewing in a few words the story of the year's progress, Elder L. R. Conradi, vice-president of the European Division, says:—

A carefully prepared report of each of our European fields for the last eight years shows that 1909, by the blessing of the Lord, has been our best year; and that is as it should be. The membership increased by 2,264 during the year, making our total 19,269. The tithe increased $31,661, the total for the year being $194,546. The Lord is blessing in our East African missions, and during the year twenty-six were baptized, brought from heathen darkness into the glorious light. We have now twenty missionaries at the East African stations.