AUSTRALASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

AUSTRALASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS

A Striking Providence

ONE of the darkest and most populous corners of the world is the region of the East Indies and Southeastern Asia.

Right alongside this most neglected of mission fields, the providence of God has placed the island states of Australia and New Zealand as a strong missionary base.

Our Australasian churches are every year devoting thousands of dollars to missions, and sending forth their consecrated young people as well. They have accepted the obligation of spreading the gospel message in this region as “Australasia’s burden.” Two publishing houses, several sanitariums, and a number of missionary training-schools are being operated in Australia and New Zealand, not only to build up the cause of God at home, but to set the lights shining all through the dark regions lying so near at hand. We in America must help them in the great task. But who can not see the plain guiding of Providence in planting these sturdy and prosperous Australasian states—English-speaking and predominantly Protestant—at the very doorway of Polynesia, Malaysia, and the East India Islands?

1. WEST AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
2. GROUP OF WORKERS WHO HAVE LABORED IN AUSTRALASIA, ATTENDING RECENT CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON
3. CHAPEL AND MISSION HOUSE, HONOLULU, HA-WAIIAN ISLANDS
4. AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE GROUP OF HOME AND MISSION FIELD LEADERS — WEST AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

GROUP OF WORKERS WHO HAVE LABORED IN AUSTRALASIA, ATTENDING RECENT CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON

CHAPEL AND MISSION HOUSE, HONOLULU, HA-WAIIAN ISLANDS

AUSTRALASIAN UNION CONFERENCE GROUP OF HOME AND MISSION FIELD LEADERS

A divine hand has been guiding in human history for the evangelization of the world in this last generation of men.