SUVA VOU, FIJI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 27, 1900

FROM THE FIELD.

The following letters are selected from the correspondence received at the office of the Foreign Mission Board:—

SUVA VOU, FIJI.

Our little paper, Rarama, is, I think, doing good work. [This is a monthly about the size of the ordinary State paper, and is published in the Fijian language.] We printed nearly one thousand with a supplement, this month, September. We have just received letters from two Fijians on the other side of the island, who are keeping the Sabbath. They earnestly request that I visit them, which I am anxious to do, but how to do it I do not know.

We must have more help. Can you not send us a man? Our work is crippled, because I can not possibly answer the calls. Ratu Ambrose, the chief, lately said: “Oh that I had the money, so that I could send to America for five preachers! Tell them to please send us some.”

At present I arise at 5 A. M., and meet a class of young men at 5:30, some of whom can not come at any other time. I sometimes assist in teaching the children during the forenoon; and if I do not preach at night, I teach English and arithmetic in the evening to the same class that I have in the morning. I usually preach or hold four or five meetings during the week. Then I have the publishing of the paper, and the translating and printing of our Sabbath-school lessons each month. I have had the greater part of the typesetting to do myself, too, as well as the writing, which takes time. Do you not think we need a man? We could use more than one, but I dare not ask for more.

We have recently received a shipment of thirty-two hundred Fijian tracts from Cooranbong, which are nicely printed and illustrated. We expect five thousand on the Sabbath question soon. J. E. FULTON.