Notes of Progress by M. E. K.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 2, 1909

Notes of Progress

By M. E. K.

THERE are now five Missionary Volunteer societies in Georgia, with a membership of sixty-two.

An interesting bit of news from the Missionary Volunteers in Fiji says that they are conducting branch Sabbath-schools.

At the close of the temperance rally held during the southern Idaho camp-meeting one hundred signed the temperance pledge.

The Missionary Volunteer Society at Mountain View, Cal., is donating fifteen dollars a month toward the support of a missionary in India.

From Minnesota the cheering word comes, “We believe that there are brighter prospects before us in the young people’s work this year.”

One of our workers in California placed the Temperance Instructor in the hands of Mr. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for United States president.

The young people in New South Wales are supporting a Bible worker in Java. Not long ago the Victoria Missionary Volunteers presented the Java Mission with an organ and a typewriter.

The Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Southeastern Union Conference started the Foreign Mission Seminary scholarship fund in each of her conferences by giving a share to the credit of each conference.

From the Tahiti Mission comes these words: “Our young people have decided to work among the French people here this coming quarter. We have ordered four copies of the French Signs of the Times for that purpose.”

A temperance rally was held in connection with the camp-meeting in British Columbia, and though only about seventy people were encamped on the grounds, yet, at the close of the meeting, five hundred copies of the Temperance Instructor were sold in a few minutes.

The Missionary Volunteers of Kansas have almost completed a fund of three hundred seventy-five dollars, for sanitarium equipments to be used in the work among the Tamils in South India. The Kansas young people next plan to raise two hundred fifty dollars for missionary work in China.

A number of subscriptions have been received from Oklahoma for the Jugendfreund, the German young people’s paper which has just been started in South America. Let other German young people follow this example, ordering through the German Conference. The price is forty cents a year.

The president of the Indiana Conference reports a very profitable convention at the Beechwood Manual Training Academy. It was attended by about one hundred young people. He says, “I think that I have never met a brighter, more consecrated, class of young people in all my experience.”

From Miss Edith Graham, of the Australasian Union Conference, comes the following interesting temperance item: “There is considerable agitation on the subject of temperance out here. The ‘No License Campaign’ in New Zealand, recently, was a very successful one; in fact, if the thing had gone on the bare majority vote, New Zealand would have declared for prohibition from north to south, but as it requires a three-fifths majority to carry it, they were short in a number of places. Still, the gain was very encouraging, and I believe that something like one hundred fifty hotels will be closed next July as the result of the campaign. Here in New South Wales there is considerable agitation over the subject. There was a referendum taken a year or two ago, of which our people here availed themselves. I understand that it is likely there will be another referendum taken in the near future, and I hope that it will show considerable gain over the last one, which called for quite a reduction of the number of licenses given in many districts.”

M. E. K.