Mission Notes by B. G. Wilkinson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 27, 1907

Mission Notes

By B. G. Wilkinson

CHINA is to have a permanent place for the publishing of the third angel's message. A new printing-office is being built at Sin-yang Cheo, in the province of Honan. The brethren have a clear title to the land, and the new office is being pushed to completion as fast as possible. This means much to the advance of the message in China.

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MORE than any other of the countries of Latin Europe, Spain is led captive in the chains of Rome. Her priests hold the people in their hands, and from top to bottom the government officials must move at their behests. “Do you see these scars on my face?” said an old Bible colporteur to me in Madrid. “These were made by the mobs, urged on by the priests.” “But,” I asked him, “is your labor not repaid by some fruit?” “Yes,” he replied; “in one village I entered, God gave me great success in selling his Word. But shortly I ran into the house of the priest. He ordered me to stop; and immediately he set out to urge the people against me, and to collect my books. As I came back through the village, the priest, surrounded by a mob, awaited me before the principal store. They seized my donkey, and tore my Bibles in pieces. Returning some time later to this village, I learned of a family who had turned Protestant. I sought them out. The father of the family told me that the merchant of the store before which my Bibles were torn apart had used the shreds as wrapping paper; that in buying a quantity of provisions, a goodly portion of the Bible had fallen into his hands, and upon reading it he was converted. He sent for the complete Bible, and upon learning the truth, he determined that he and his children had better be dead than to live longer in the foul superstitions of Rome.” And then the colporteur added, “Am I not repaid for these scars?”— B. G. Wilkinson.