From the Dark Places by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 2, 1909

From the Dark Places

By Editor

Editorial

From the Dark Places

HERE, just before the week of prayer and the annual offering, let us listen to a few words received from workers in some of the dark places of the earth.

“Pray for Us.”— From Peru, Elder A. N. Allen writes: “Always remember us in your noon-hour prayer service [held for a few moments daily in the General Conference office], as we always remember the brethren at home in our prayers.”

Where Need Abounds.— Dr. R. Russell, of Korea, who finished his medical work in Washington, a year ago, writes: “All the time I was in the medical school, I asked God to send me to a field where I could see that I was needed. He has answered that prayer above all our expectations, and we daily thank him for his sustaining and keeping power.”

Unworked and Waiting.— From Ecuador, for which field the Mission Board is looking for a man to join him, Elder W. W. Wheeler writes:—

The people of this country are not asking us to start a school anywhere; they are not asking for meetings anywhere; they are not calling for our books anywhere; they are not asking for a sanitarium. But how all those things are needed! They burn the Word of God in the streets before our eyes, and when there are no police about, they stone us from their villages. There is a barrier of prejudice and hatred to be broken through by loving ministry. I do hope some one will answer the Lord’s call to come to this field, and that those who have the Lord’s money will improve the opportunity to invest it where it will bring large returns.

The Closing Harvest.— Writing on the train in Korea, going to an unentered region, Elder C. L. Butterfield saw thousands of laborers in the rice fields hurrying to gather the ripened crop. He says:—

While looking at the fields, I think of the great field—the world—“white already to harvest.” But where are the reapers? As we look at Korea with its millions, Japan on one side with her tens of millions, China on the other side with her hundreds of millions, and then think that we have sent only about fifty workers to all these millions, we can but say, “The laborers are few.” I believe if our people in the home land could only see with their own eyes what we see among these millions, they would give as never before—give some of the large farms; give some of the valuable horses and cattle; give some of the bank accounts; yes, and give their sons and daughters to help save the precious fruit of the harvest of the world.