p. 18 | Mission Notes

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1902

Mission Notes

RECENT letters from the workers in Matabeleland report all well at the mission, and the work prospering.

ON Brother Graf’s last two trips through Brazil he had the privilege of baptizing thirty-six persons.

BROTHER W. G. KNEELAND reports the church at Princess Town, Trinidad, slowly increasing in membership. Three have recently been added.

BROTHER HUTCHINS has been holding meetings with the company at Port Limon, Central America, for a month. There is a company of about thirty at that place, and others are interested.

THE two companies of Sabbath keepers in Natal have donated over seventy dollars toward furnishing literature for the Boer camps.

ELDER and Mrs. C. H. Parker, of Tasmania, who formerly labored in Fiji, have been asked to connect with the work in the Fijian Islands again, and were expected to reach there June 24.

BROTHER B. G. WILKINSON, writing of a visit to Belgium recently, says: “It is wonderfully surprising how many doors have been open in this field since we began work here last year. Many of our brethren remember that a few months ago our only worker in this field was taken away by death.”

BROTHER G. W. REASER has recently made a visit to the mission at Matabeleland, South Africa, and promises a full report for the REVIEW soon. While there, he organized a church of twenty-nine members, baptizing twenty-one natives, only one having been baptized previously. The workers are well, and the work in the mission is prospering.

THE British consul at Tahiti has bought the Pitcairn people a cutter of fifteen tons. She sailed for their island June 1, with Brother G. F. Jones, of Tahiti, in command. After she has been there a few days, she will sail to Mangareva, in the Gambier Group. Brother and Sister Jones are to work for the native people there for a while, and will occasionally go to Pitcairn Island, and give the Pitcairn people some help. They have not had any help for about three years, and will appreciate this very much.

SISTER S. J. OLNEY writes from India: “One dear sister has begun the observance of the Sabbath, and has fully accepted every point of truth that been presented to her. Others are deeply interested; and although the enemy is striving to sow tares among the precious seed, we trust that it falls on good ground.”

THE work is onward in the Fiji Islands. Brother J. E. Fulton writes of many calls for labor. Some are keeping the Sabbath who have never seen any of our laborers. Among these is a chief who holds a government position, which he is about to lose on account of the Sabbath. He writes that he has been preaching that the seventh day is the true Sabbath. He says that he is willing to lose all things earthly if the Lord will give him a place in his work. This chief was brought to a knowledge of the truth through reading our little Fijian paper Rarama.

BROTHER J. L. SHAW writes from Calcutta, India, that the school at Karmatar, which has already finished its first quarter, was a success financially. The greatest need now is for some one who has been trained for church-school work, so that they need not draw workers who have gone to the field to labor among the natives, for this purpose. The school has already entered upon its second quarter. Sisters Knight and Humphrey are having excellent success as self-supporting medical missionaries in Simla. They are both nursing, and have more than they can do.

THE work at the mission at Simultala, India, is progressing. During February and March the mission bungalow was reroofed, and a number of poor were given work in cutting down large timbers for doors and windows. Bible readings are conducted almost daily among the people who visit the mission. Recently a native who calls himself a Christian Yogi has come to the mission. He is reading the Word of God, and also “Great Controversy” and other books and papers which have been given him. He is an English, Bengali, and Hindi student, and was formerly a schoolmaster. Brother Barlow asks that he be remembered in the prayers of God’s people.

BROTHER M. C. STURTEVANT writes from Buluwayo, South Central Africa, that he and his family are happy in their new field of labor, and hope soon to be able to do some work for the natives in their own tongue, as they are devoting their time now to the study of the native language, and under the blessing of God are making progress. He says they are pleased with the country, and believe they are where the Lord wants them. He writes that they planted a garden—radishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, parsnips, cabbage, and tomatoes—as soon as they reached the field; and when he wrote one month later, all were up, and the radishes were nearly large enough to use, although it is the dry season of the year, and they have to water the plants two or three times a week. Brother Sturtevant says: “I want to be found here when my Saviour comes, whether in the grave or caught up alive. O glorious thought! Would that the people at home might wake up, and stir out of themselves, get out in the work, and grow up in the Lord. Jesus would then soon come.”