Raiatea, Society Islands
By G. T. Beckner
AVARA.—The school home is completed now, and the school is in progress. My work, however, is largely in connection with the plantation. Cocoanuts are our main crop. We gather the nuts, and make them into copra by digging out the meat, and drying it in a house made for this purpose. As we go about our work, our hearts are glad because the Lord has permitted us to have a part in the closing work of the third angel’s message. We have no words of discouragement to offer. We have our trials and temptations, but the Lord is our helper in every time of need. I will say to those at home, We need your prayers. Then as you pray for us, the Lord will lead you to give of the means he has intrusted to you, for the needy fields beyond. May God impress his people with the thought that all that they have belongs to him, and some day they will have to give an account of the way in which they have used his money. The people in the home land sing, “The heathen, in his blindness, bows down to wood and stone;” but they cannot realize this until they see it for themselves, then all will be willing to make any sacrifice to tell them of Jesus and his love. As we learn of our workers going to other fields, our hearts are made glad; for we know that our redemption draweth nigh. Let our watchword be Onward and upward, for the victory is ours. We are contented and happy in our work here, and enjoy many of God’s richest blessings. G. T. BECKNER.