S. D. BAPTIST MISSIONARIES TO CHINA by Joseph Harvey Waggoner

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1880

S. D. BAPTIST MISSIONARIES TO CHINA.

By Joseph Harvey Waggoner

On the 27th of December, Eld. D. H. Davis, of New Jersey, with wife and child, accompanied by Miss Lizzie Nelson, of East Otto, N. Y., left San Francisco on the steamship City of Tokio, for Shanghai, China, as missionaries of the Seventh-day Baptists. We were exceedingly glad to receive a visit from Sister Nelson at the Office in Oakland. We found Bro. Davis temporarily ill from his overland trip, and regretted that his time was so occupied that he could not accept our invitation to rest with us and receive the care which we would have been pleased to give him. As we had to be absent to an appointment at the time of their sailing, Sister L. M. Hall accompanied them to the ship. We remember them in our prayers as they cross the great deep, and pray that they may be successful in bringing many who now sit in darkness to the knowledge of the true God, and to the keeping of all his commandments.

We often think of the company of Sabbath-keepers in China raised up under the Seventh-day Baptists. Their standing so long alone, firm to their principles, is a remarkable illustration of the power of the gospel of Christ. We can imagine the joyfulness of the greeting of these faithful ones on the arrival of the long-looked-for missionaries from America.

J. H. WAGGONER.