(Gathered from May and June Reports)
NOTE.—At the best these reports are partial. They are compiled largely from local papers, to some extent from individual reports. The foreign field is better reported than the home field. But not all work done is reported by any means. We endeavor to be accurate, but will be glad of any corrections which may be made.
From Foreign Lands
A NEW church has been dedicated at Navolau, Fiji.
WE learn of the baptism of fourteen souls in Java.
EIGHT souls have been baptized and received into the church at Wellington, New Zealand.
WORD comes from Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, that one more family has embraced the message, and a few others are interested.
FIFTEEN new converts are reported in Novatas, Philippine Islands, and eighteen at Cavit, thirteen of whom have recently received baptism.
AS THE result of an effort continued for several months at Plymouth, England, thirty-two have covenanted to keep the commandments of God.
REPORTS state that the total number of new converts received into church fellowship in the European Conference, during 1912, amounts to 5,484.
SIX new converts are witnessing for the truth in Crow's Nest, Queensland, Australia, and six more at Brisbane. At Murgon a church has been dedicated.
A CHURCH recently erected in St. Croix, West Indies, has been dedicated to the Lord's service free from debt. During the year 1912, in the East Caribbean Mission field, fifty-three individuals were baptized.
THE membership of the Rio Grande Do Sul (Brazil) Conference has been increased about thirty during the past year. This young conference is small in membership and great in territory, laborers are few.
TWENTY-NINE candidates in Grande Riviere, Haiti, recently went forward in baptism. Nearly all of these were voodoo worshipers. Some have encountered severe opposition. One young man attended the baptismal services, bringing with him about one hundred others for the purpose of making trouble, and threatened to shoot those responsible for the conversion of his former sweetheart; but they were quiet and peaceable throughout the ceremony, and viewed it with wonderful interest. After the baptism, the young man lent his horse to convey our people across the river.
ON the closing day of the West Australian camp-meeting, forty-four candidates were baptized. A new church has been dedicated at Harvey. Pastor Morris Lukens reports that 270 were baptized and united with the church at the close of the camp-meeting season in the Australasian Union Conference.
BROTHER F. A. DETAMORE writes of the organization of the first church in Sumatra, at Padang, and of the baptism of seven individuals at that place, besides others in different parts of the field. He also reports some twenty walking in the light among the Bataks in Sipirok, where a native has been selling literature for some months.
FIVE at Broken Hill, New South Wales, and twelve at Quirindi, have stepped out to obey the message. Baptism has been administered to eleven candidates at Stanmore, and to eleven in Ponsonby. Three others at the latter place were expecting to go forward in this ordinance in the near future. A church has been organized at Auburn, near Sydney, with a membership of twenty-eight.
NINE willing souls at Spion Kop, South Africa, twenty-two at Fish River, two at Wynberg, four at Parow, and five at Cape Town, have received baptism. Twenty-three conversions are reported in Orange Free State, and nine baptisms in the Clocolan district. Fifty-one were baptized the last Sabbath in January in Friedenstal, East Africa, and another hundred are awaiting baptism.
Oroua Missionary Training School, Longburn, New Zealand. Office and printing rooms below, in center; chapel and class rooms above; boys' rooms on left; girls' on the right
DR. RILEY RUSSELL writes from Korea that last year he baptized ninety-two persons. Six were recently baptized in Pook Chon. In Seoul, through the faithful efforts of one sister in the church, a family of twelve members have given up spirit-worship, and accepted Jesus as their Saviour. This sister's husband was possessed of demons, but through her earnest prayers he was healed and converted, and now five members of that family have been baptized and taken into the church.
PASTOR G. W. PETTIT reports the organization of a Sabbath-school at Bombay, India, and says, "Three have recently signified a desire to unite with us in keeping all God's commandments." Seventeen souls at Lonavla, and fourteen at Kalyan, have covenanted to obey the commandments. One of those baptized is an Indian lady who has done service for ten years in the court of one of the ruling princes of India. She now goes to be the companion to the wife of the heir apparent to the throne of Kashmir. She expects to take up the circulation of our literature among the ruling princes of India. Sabbath-schools have been organized at Kalyan and Simla. In Meiktila, Burma, baptism has been administered to nine,—three Chinese, four Burmese, one Karen, and one Anglo-Indian. Prospects for the work in that field are bright. Seven at Calcutta have also been baptized.
A very pretty new church at College Place, near Walla Walla, Washington
DR. A. C. SELMON writes from Ying Shang Hsien, Anhui, China: "We have a church of twenty-five baptized members in this place, and there is in addition an equal number of what we call 'inquirers.' Many of these are almost ready to be baptized and received into the church." Brother George Harlow tells of the organization of a church near Lim Hoi, Kwang-Tung. Regarding the work at Yin Po he says: "The other day Brother Cheung came to me and desired that some one go to Yin Po, where he is holding meetings, to baptize some who have been studying with him. More than fifty persons have been studying regularly, and about twenty of these are ready for baptism. . . . All these are from heathen homes." At Im Ho, on May 4, seven men were baptized, and several others will doubtless be baptized soon.
PASTOR R. F. COTTRELL speaks as follows concerning the work at Chowkiakow: "Upon examination, thirty-six were admitted into church fellowship subject to baptism. Thirty-three of these were baptized during the meeting, and the others were to receive the rite a few days later. Among these are four very intelligent men, all of whom give excellent promise as workers." He also tells of the baptism of twenty-one in Hankow, and says that after a general meeting in Hunan, the last of April, over fifty presented themselves for baptism, and on examination forty-three were accepted and went forward in this ordinance. Thirty-eight of these come direct from heathenism. All together, one hundred and one have united with the church through baptism at the spring meetings held there this year. Four men from the north of the province, who attended the Hankow meeting, walked about 135 miles each way in order to attend. Totals from fields outside of North American and European conferences, 721.
CONVERSIONS (aside from baptisms): California, 54; South Dakota, 9; Colorado, 3; Kansas, 12; Wyoming, 4; Virginia, 11; New Hampshire, 10; New York, 4; Alberta, 3; Manitoba, 7; Georgia, 45; Mississippi, 7; Montana, 3; Washington, 12; Illinois, 6; Wisconsin, 6; Michigan, 13; Louisiana, 10; Texas, 4; Vancouver, B. C., 35.
BAPTISMS: California, 66; Minnesota, 79; Iowa, 16; South Dakota, 5; Missouri, 67; Colorado, 6; Kansas, 17; Nebraska, 3; New Jersey, 3; Pennsylvania, 16; New Hampshire, 7; Massachusetts, 3; Rhode Island, 7; New York, 5; Alberta, 18; British Columbia, 9; Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 3; New Mexico, 6; Washington, 16; Oregon, 10; Michigan, 40; Illinois, 37; Wisconsin, 11; Kentucky, 16; Tennessee, 19; Louisiana, 9; total reported, 505.
AT the close of the General Conference, Wilbur Nelson and wife, of Southern California, sailed for India to assist in the book work. Rachel Kinzer accompanied them. R. T. E. Colthurst, and his daughter Agnes, sailed for Europe June 12, to connect with the work in the European Conference.15
WANTED FOR MISSIONARY WORK
Tracts on the second coming of Christ and on the Sabbath question, and clean copies of any of our papers, to be used in a tent effort, by Elder E. T. Nash, Quincy, Florida.
Papers and tracts, also foreign papers in German, Swedish, and Spanish languages, to James Harvey, 1729 Grove St., Oakland, Cal.
Clean copies of papers and tracts to Mrs. F. R. May, Box 145, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
S. D. A. papers, tracts, and magazines, new and old, to Mrs. Henry Banks, 605 B St., San Bernardino, Cal.
Late, clean copies of S. D. A. papers and magazines to G. D. Bennett, 224 S. Horace Ave., Rockford, Ill.
A continuous supply of S. D. A. literature to S. M. Housler, Box 144, Santa Monica, Cal.
Late, clean copies of our magazines to Clarence E. Moon, 916 Laguna St., San Francisco, Cal.
Copies of our magazines to Mrs. Mary Morris, Willow Lake, S. Dak.
A continuous supply of clean copies of our papers and tracts to J. M. Boyce, 2185 Young Ave., Memphis, Tenn.
