A New Mission

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 10, 1907

SOME time ago a Church of England missionary who had labored in China accepted this truth in Japan. Since his marriage to Dr. Emma Perrine, one of our medical missionaries in Japan, they have gone into a new province of China to establish this work. Dr. Selmon writes:—

“I came down to Hankow a few days ago to meet Brother P. J. Laird and his wife, as they were on their way down into Hunan to open up a new station. All our workers here had an opportunity to meet them, and we are all impressed with the fact that the Lord has raised up a very valuable man for our work. Having been in China about seven years, he has a good grasp of the language; but best of all, he is a man of sterling worth, a man of principle, and it was this very fact that led him to become dissatisfied with some of the doctrines and practises in his old mission. He is now rejoicing in the truth, and it does one's soul good to talk with him.

“We have a very strong impression here, and we believe it is of the Lord, that Brother Laird is the man to open up work here in Hankow. We are praying over the matter, and have been for some time, and the conviction grows that it is high time to begin here in the hub of China. Hankow is to China what Chicago is to the United States. It is having the most remarkable growth of any open port in China.”