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In the Balkan Mission

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 20, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 3.

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In the Balkan Mission

By Guy Dail

GUY DAIL
THIS evening (November 13) we close our three-days' conference here in Constantza, Rumania, on the western shores of the Black Sea. In this small but rapidly developing country, with its five million inhabitants, a beginning was made in our work by the immigration of German-Russian brethren, who brought the truth with them, and formed the nucleus of a developing and increasing effort among Germans and Rumanians, in spite of the petty persecutions and inconveniences to which our laborers are subjected in their endeavors to present the message. We now have a membership of one hundred sixty-two against one hundred thirty-nine a year ago. By far the largest church is in Bucharest, a modern city of about three hundred thousand inhabitants. We are getting a start in Galatz and in Buzeu. Bulgaria is also a part of the Balkan Mission territory, and we have workers spreading the truth in Sofia, and Elder O. Schwenecke, the superintendent, will settle in Rustchuk, where he will be assisted by a native Bulgarian Bible worker. Brother Schwenecke is our only ordained minister in the Balkan Mission. He is to have the help of one canvasser, two licentiates, and three Bible workers.
Through the active part the brethren here at the conference took yesterday in ordering Rumanian literature to circulate among their friends; by their whole-hearted response to the appeals for deeper consecration and more faithfulness in performing their every Christian duty; and in their liberality, donating over six hundred francs toward a special fund for the support of a German laborer for the twenty-five German settlements or villages in the Dobruzen, this small number of earnest, hard-working farmers (for most of the forty-five present belong to the rural district) have shown their devotion to the third angel's message.
We would call special attention to a matter of great importance to any of our readers who may have Rumanian neighbors; viz., our Rumanian paper, Semnele Timpului, or Signs of the Times. It is issued monthly by the Hamburg Publishing House, Grindelberg 15a. This is to be a great help in spreading the truth among those who know this language. We believe that the ardent lover of the soon-coming Saviour will be glad to speed on the truth to all nations, tongues, and peoples, that so we may assist in hastening his appearing.
We expect that in the future there will be granted a still greater measure of success to our Balkan missionaries, and that soon this part of the vineyard will have been warned. Let us remember this mission in our sympathies and in our prayers.
Constantza.