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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 1, 1906

H. W. MILLER

By H. W. Miller

China

SHANG-TSAI HSIEN, HONAN.—Our printing work has made steady progress from month to month, and we have seen the blessing of God attending the production of literature. This only confirms us in our view that this is to be one of the greatest agencies in warning the millions of China. In view of this fact, and that our present equipment is not adequate for carrying forward the work, and our present building not suitable, being plastered with mud, the dust continually falling upon the ink-slab and type forms, making it necessary to clean these frequently every day, it was decided to remove the printing-office to a railroad station here in Honan.

Already we have secured a plot of ground, located only about one hundred yards from the railway station at Sin Jang Cheo. Over one thousand dollars, including some donations received which could be applied to this fund, was raised by the workers here. The land was purchased for the small sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and the remainder will make a good beginning on a publishing house. We are beginning the erection at once, and Brother and Sister Allum and I will remove to Sin Jang Cheo, and Brother and Sister Westrup take up the work at Shang-tsai Hsien.

The enemy has not hindered the work, but he has made it difficult. Our brethren all have a feeling that now, as never before, is the time for recruits to enter this field, and there is a spirit of self-sacrifice in the hearts of all to forward this work at any cost. The difficulties we are all meeting, especially in the matter of opposition by other missionaries, are drawing our hearts together.

Last autumn a man who had been in the China Inland Mission, and who had

attended our meetings for some time, came here, endeavoring to overthrow our doctrine. I took the time to go over each point carefully in a Chinese Bible with him; and while I did not find the Chinese Bible exactly the same as our English Bible, still I found plenty of proof in this free-hand translation to convince him that the seventh day is the true Sabbath of God, and that the soul does not go to heaven at the instant of death. After studying with me two weeks, he confessed faith in our doctrine, and desired to connect with our church. He also wrote a letter to his pastor, a Church of England minister, saying that if he would take his Bible and prove that Sunday is the Sabbath, he would return to the China Inland Mission. He never received a reply. And while the pastor has fifteen other members here in this city, and came frequently to visit them previously, he has not been here since. This has left his members in rather an embarrassing situation. We do not seek their members, but feel free to teach those who come to us inquiring for the reasons of our faith, for we have a higher authority than man for our belief in this closing message of salvation.

Within the last three weeks this brother's wife has begun reading the Bible. The progress she is making is remarkable, and we fully expect her to develop into a Bible worker for the Chinese women. Their oldest girl is now in Misses Simpson and Ericksen's girls' school at Sintsai Hsien, preparing to become a Bible worker. They have a boy about ten years old, who can read almost any passage in the Bible, and who is also a very earnest little Christian. It seems good to see a whole family embracing this message in China. I have every reason to believe that their faith is genuine. Our work does not seem in vain when we can occasionally see some fruit, and realize from what depths of sin and degradation it has come.