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

Singapore Mission

This mission was also under Australasian oversight in 1909, but now belongs with the Asiatic Division. It includes Singapore and the states of the Malay Peninsula. Elder G. F. Jones, superintendent, says:—

One signal blessing during the past year has been the building and dedicating of our new chapel at Singapore. People say it is typical of our denomination—small, good, substantial. Singapore is one of those cosmopolitan cities where many languages are spoken, and it stands in the highway to the far East, a prominent spot whence to proclaim with a loud voice, “Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come.”

Of the very first family of native converts of the Chinese Babas in the Straits Settlements there are three sisters keeping the Sabbath. In 1845 their father, the first Chinese convert under Dr. James Legge, was taken by him to England to be educated, and was placed in the school at Huntley founded by the Duchess of Gordon. We are encouraged to see a few of the different races here taking their position under the banner of truth. Six Chinese workers, five of whom are young, are developing into good, reliable missionaries.