p. 4 | Beautiful Upon the Mountains

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 13, 1906

“Beautiful Upon the Mountains”

By William Ambrose Spicer

THE German-Swiss camp-meeting is just closing at Kussnacht, by Zurich. The camp is five hundred feet above Lake Zurich, in which we can see mirrored the continuous fringe of villages that surround it. This mountain country is a beautiful land. But there is something to be seen here infinitely more beautiful and glorious than the natural scenery.

The third angel’s message is spreading the glorious light of the coming kingdom over these mountains and valleys. In our meeting every laborer had a good report to make of souls embracing the truth, and new and old believers rejoiced together in the blessed hope.

When the old Basel headquarters was transferred to Gland, in the French-Swiss field, it took between forty and fifty members—and most of them workers—from this German-Swiss Conference, and transferred the institutional interests to the western part of the country. But, as though the Lord recognized this gift to an even needier field, the German work in Switzerland has gone forward with even renewed vigor. The loss in membership has been considerably more than made up, and the tithe for the year shows an increase of about two hundred and fifty dollars.

A new impetus has been given to the canvassing work by a successful institute that preceded the camp-meeting. These brethren and sisters are also looking beyond their own land. The presence in the meeting of Peter Nyambo, the brother from our Nyassaland Mission, who has been studying in London and Friedensau, helped to fasten their interest in the African mission work, which was set before them by Brother Conradi.

One little gift impressed me with the unity of interest in our world-wide work. A sister from one of these mountain valleys brought with her to the meeting a ten-franc gold piece, for India. She had heard of her sisters in heathen darkness there, and wanted to help forward the work for them.

Thus the fields are thinking of one another, praying for one another, and helping one another to send this message on.

Elder H. F. Schuberth, the conference president, and his fellow laborers, have a growing work upon their hands, and a people rejoicing in the truth to join them and support them in the work.

Laborers and people to whom the truth is coming in these Alpine valleys can take very literally the text: “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” W. A. S.