Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 27, 1915

ELDER L. V. FINSTER, who has charge of the Philippine Mission, is able to speak of the work of the mission in the following encouraging manner: “We are accomplishing much with our little press. We have exceeded what we expected to do. We have now finished printing 5,200 copies of ‘Kristong Paririto.’ The book has about 200 pages. The number of baptisms has also exceeded our highest expectations, 127 having been baptized in 1914. Our tithe increased from $657.77 in 1913 to $1,449.50 during 1914. We feel that this is very encouraging.”

FREDERICK LEE writes from Honan, China, February 24: “We are very busy now with our twenty-two stations in Honan. We believe our workers have gone out this spring to win many more souls than ever before. Many are the openings we have for new work. It is going ahead of us faster than we can secure and train men to fill the openings. A spirit of work is taking possession of our church members, and they are going among their neighbors telling them of the truth. We have organized missionary societies in all our churches, and at some of our outstations the Sabbath attendance has been doubled as the result. Pray for the work in Honan.”

FROM the prisoners’ camp at Malta, Egypt, Brother W. C. Ising, superintendent of one section of the Egyptian Mission, wrote on February 2: “Since leaving Alexandria I have received none of our papers, and I miss the REVIEW very much. Mrs. Ising says she forwards them, but it must be that the censor objects to their delivery. There is no change in our situation, and little to report within this short space. I am glad to hear that the work is onward in the States. This war is a terrible object lesson, and a reminder of the privileges we enjoy as God’s children, and which must enhance our yearnings for the time when the ‘former things are passed away.’”

BROTHER GEORGE KEOUGH writes from Upper Egypt: “At the end of the year I went to Beni Adi for the Lord’s Supper and baptism. Several days were spent in getting the church ready for these ordinances. Four persons were keeping the Sabbath, and desiring to become members. Only two of them were ready for baptism, so I baptized them on the last Sabbath of the year, and afterwards had the Lord’s Supper. We had a good time, and were thankful that two had been added to the church. Since then I have gone four times to a village near by, and have found the door open to preach in both the Coptic and the Presbyterian church. I have had several talks with many after the services, and explained to them the Sabbath. Some are exercised on this point, and it may be that the Lord will give us further fruit there.”