Rhenish Mission Work and the Toba Batak Field

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 15, 1902

Rhenish Mission Work and the Toba Batak Field

IN his report of a recent visit to the stations of the Rhenish Missionary Society, Dr. Schreiber tells of his experience in penetrating Sumatra to the Toba country, where he found a teeming population. This seems to be the real seat of the old Batak heathenism. The Rhenish Society has been operating in Sumatra for thirty years, and has a membership of over twelve thousand in its churches. But there remains much more to be done. The whole northern part of the Toba Island, as well as the eastern and northern shores of Toba Lake,— all thickly populated,— are yet unoccupied, and present an open door.