Encouraging Reports from the Field by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Oct 4, 1906

Encouraging Reports from the Field

By Editor

If all the questions asked by our correspondents, if all the manuscripts submitted by our contributors, and if all the requests from our readers for articles on special subjects, do not receive immediate attention, we hope our good friends will bear with us. Our time and our space are both limited, but we will do the best we can to meet the demands upon us. Beyond this we can not promise.

WORD has just been received to the effect that this is the most auspicious opening of Union College for a number of years. The enrolment at the end of the first week was two hundred and eighty, of a very fine class of students, who give promise of responding to the excellent missionary spirit which is being fostered by that institution. The attendance and outlook before Union College give assurance of a very successful year's work.

FROM every point come cheering words of courage and growth. Writing from Valparaiso, Chile, August 8 (before the earthquake), Brother Steele, secretary of the West Coast Mission, says: “The work is onward. Souls are continuing to accept the truth. The brethren also are more faithful in paying tithe. In the seven months ending July 31 we lacked only two hundred dollars of receiving as much tithe as for the entire twelve months of 1905.”

A GRAND report comes from the office of the Sabbath-school Department. The schools have been working this year to reach a total of one thousand dollars a Sabbath for mission offerings. The secretary, Sister L. Flora Plummer, reports that the record for the first six months of the year is $26,957.09. This—for the half year—is $957 over the mark at which they aimed. This news, we know, will send a thrill of joy through the hearts of all, and lead to even more earnest efforts during the remaining portion of the year. It means advance moves in the mission fields.