ON the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's liner the Persia, fourteen missionaries, whose portraits appear on page 1 of this issue, sailed September 15 for the Orient. Elder R. W. Munson, our venerable missionary who has spent much time laboring in Java, is on furlough in this country; but all the rest of the party went to their different fields in Asia. Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Davenport will go direct to the Nanking University, to spend the necessary time in the study of the language, preparatory to taking up work in the Hupeh province. Dr. Davenport took his medical course at our Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists, graduating in 1915, and immediately passed the California State Board with good credits. Mrs. Davenport is a graduate nurse, also from the Loma Linda school. They will study the language together, and their labors will be united in medical missionary lines. The home of Brother and Sister Davenport was formerly Omaha, Nebraska. J. W. Rowland and wife are from the Washington Conference, Brother Rowland having spent three years in evangelistic work in that field. They took their training in our college at Walla Walla, Washington. Mrs. Rowland specialized in music, and for the past nine years has taught music in our schools. She will enter the evangelistic work with her husband. Their field of labor for the present will be Singapore. Elder George Harlow and wife have already spent five years in labor in China. They speak the Cantonese dialect, through which from twenty-five to thirty-five millions of the Chinese people may be reached. He has spent a year lacking two days, in this country, on furlough. Brother Harlow's last work in that field was as superintendent of our South China Mission. He returns to continue active evangelistic work. R. E. Loasby and wife are under appointment to India, sailing to their field by way of China. They will probably take up work in the Punjab district. Brother Loasby spent six years at Washington Missionary College, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., completing the course in that institution, and taking the degree of B. A. He spent two years at Hamilton, Bermuda Islands, acting as pastor of the church there, and teaching our church school. Mrs. Loasby took two years' training in our Washington Missionary College, and took training as a nurse in our sanitarium in Takoma Park, D. C. She also spent some time with Brother and Sister Haskell, veteran evangelistic workers, receiving training from them as a Bible worker. The destination of I. C. Schmidt and wife is Java, where he will have charge of our West Java mission field. Brother Schmidt had charge of the German department in our school at Clinton, Missouri, for one year, and at our Walla Walla College for two years. Mrs. Schmidt, among other accomplishments, is a teacher of music. Charles F. Glascock and wife are both graduate nurses. Brother Glascock took the ministerial training course at our Pacific Union College, St. Helena, California. They have spent some time in practical work in nursing, and will enter upon medical evangelistic labors in Shanghai. Amy Liu, a native daughter of China, has spent nearly seven years in America, five years of the time having been occupied in practical nursing and training in our Loma Linda medical college. She is returning to Canton. Della Burroway has spent eight and one half years in Calcutta, in charge of our Karmatan station. She has been on furlough in this country two and one half years. She speaks the Bengali language, and is returning to labor among the Bengal peoples of India.