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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 4, 1886

The Missionary.

The Work in Australia.

IN a private letter dated North Fitzroy, January 25, Brother Henry Scott gives the following encouraging account of the work in that distant field:—

"The blessing of God is on the work here. It is moving forward, and we expect it will continue to advance until Australia shall resound with the sound of the Third Angel's Message. Two weeks ago yesterday, the first Seventh-day Adventist church in Australia was organized, with twenty-eight charter members. Now there are forty-six members, and a Sabbath-school of over fifty. In the Colonies there are about seventy-five Sabbath-keepers. It would do your heart good to see the zeal and earnestness manifested by those who have newly received the truth. They have united heartily in celebrating the ordinances, none stumbling over that brought to view in the thirteenth chapter of John. The health reform and the Testimonies are accepted with a readiness seldom manifested.

"A tract and missionary society was partially organized yesterday, and the brethren and sisters are going to work in earnest to spread the 'good tidings of great joy' to their friends and countrymen. A large club of the Bible Echo was spoken for; and from this time we shall expect to see this branch of the work develop and contribute its influence to the advancement of the great common cause.

"We are grateful to God for the manner in which he has worked for his truth here, and we ask the prayers of our brethren and sisters that we may so live as to have his blessing continually."