Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Dec 10, 1903

A MOST urgent appeal has been received from Brother E. W. Thoman, of Chile, for additional laborers for that destitute field. Since Brother A. R. Ogden has been compelled to retire on account of Mrs. Ogden’s ill health, only one American laborer is left in the field. Brother Thoman reports the conversion of a minister who has been in the field for a number of years.

REPORTING the arrival of the nurses in Japan, Dr. Lockwood writes: “I can not tell you how glad we were to welcome them here. It did seem almost impossible that they should come on the boat sailing from Vancouver, October 5. We are truly grateful to the Mission Board and others in America for the effort put forth to hasten their coming. Their arrival means more to us and the work here than a car-load of equipments; nevertheless, we need the equipments, also.”

A MISSIONARY family indeed is that of Mr. and Mrs. B. Broomhall, who for many years were connected with the China Inland Mission. Their youngest son, a surgeon of great promise, who has been honorary surgeon at the London Hospital, Bethnal Green, and St. Marks, has recently gone to the province of Shan-si, North China. He will take up the work laid down by martyrs of the recent massacre. He is the fifth child that Mr. and Mrs. Broomhall have given to the mission field in China.

A NATIVE missionary in China has had remarkable results from his gospel work. On being questioned by a missionary, he said that his work was supported by a merchant in the United States, and that every week he sent to him a list of the natives he had been able to reach, and who were under some conviction. On his return to the United States, this missionary visited the merchant, and going into his inner office, found an open Bible with the list of Chinese names. The merchant told him that every day he locked his office door and spent an hour more in prayer for these individuals by name. — Selected.