Illustrative Field Notes

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

Illustrative Field Notes

ONE of our doctors had just joined a mission station in Korea. The people at once so thronged him that “it was necessary to build a wire fence about his house, that he might get sleep and the necessary time for language study.”

A Tamil boy in South India had been saved from cholera by successful treatment. The next Sabbath a silver rupee (thirty-three cents) lay on the table in the meeting hall, a thank-offering from the boy’s father. “It represented four or five days’ work, and more—the poor man’s feeling of appreciation.”

From amid busy, crowded days of ministry to bodies and souls in the chief city of far Hunan, China, Dr. Emma Laird writes: “What we need here more than anything else, perhaps, is your prayers that the power of the enemy may be overcome, and people loosed from the bondage of superstition and sin.”

Miss Schlegel writes from Cairo: “It is not easy to nurse in an Arabic house. If anybody is ill, all the relatives and friends come to the house, and sit about, talking, smoking, and drinking coffee, with windows closed.”