F. W. FIELD by F. W. Field

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 9, 1902

F. W. FIELD

By F. W. Field

Japan

TOKIO.—We are glad to be able to give a good report from this field. There are evidences of progress in the different departments of the work, and encouraging prospects for the future. At Wakamatsu, where the brethren labored during the summer, some are deeply interested, and seem just on the point of deciding to obey the truth. Two of the brethren remained there to carry on the work, and regular weekly meetings and Sabbath school are kept up.

On Sabbath, September 27, at our Sabbath service in Shiba, four persons were baptized and received into the Tokio church. Three of these are members or relatives of families already in the truth. We are rejoiced to see the young people among us taking their stand on the Lord's side.

Our paper, the Owari No Fukuin, continues to do a good work. At the last business meeting of the church, it was reported that two hundred and thirty copies of the paper are taken monthly by our members, for use in missionary work. This is a good beginning; but we feel sure that it can be much increased if all our members will do their best. This summer we were much encouraged by receiving an order for twenty-five copies of the paper for one year from workers in an American city on the Pacific Coast. Are there not other churches in America that could use clubs of this paper among the Japanese? Any such should address W. D. Burden, 2 Gogochi, Shiba Koyen, Tokio, Japan.

Our publishing work is still largely in the form of plans, for we have not the means to do what is urgently needed. At a recent meeting of the workers it was voted to prepare at once the matter for five or six small tracts on the main points of our faith. Two of the brethren have just completed a translation of “The Marshalling of the Nations.” We hope that its publication need not be long delayed. We present these urgent needs, believing that some of our brethren of means will respond with liberal gifts to support this work. The means we have for a printing outfit must lie on deposit till we can secure some capital with which to do the work.

We have been much encouraged of late by the arrival of additional workers. October 22 Dr. S. A. Lockwood and his wife landed at Yokohama after a safe but stormy voyage. They have come to begin the medical work in Japan. Brother and sister Wilbur came on the same boat, and went on their way to China, to engage in the medical work in that great field.