Missionary Experiences in China and Fiji
The church in Mountain View had an excellent feast,—two of them, in fact, June 28 and 29. On June 28, the afternoon of Sabbath, Pastor J. E. Fulton, president of the Australasian Union Conference, which stretches from little Pitcairn Island on the east to undefined regions on the west, talked not of his big conference with its hundred different languages and two or three hundred different tribes and tongues and peoples, but of personal missionary experiences of his own during his work in Fiji Islands and elsewhere. The facts which he recited revealed in the clearest sort of way the tremendous power of the word of God to meet all kinds and classes. The evening of June 29, Pastor F. A. Allum, of the Central China Mission, told us of his experiences. Seven years ago, when he went to China, there were about forty converts, all told, to the last great message. Now there are over a thousand. He told of the personal experiences of himself and wife; of the calls which they had, far beyond their power to fill; and the blessed ingathering of souls in the very midst of heathen China. Both of these experiences demonstrated the power of the printed word to reach hearts. Many of those who had embraced the truth in the islands of the sea, and in China, had learned it simply and solely by reading. They had recognized, however, the power of the Word, and they longed for a personal knowledge of Jesus the Saviour. All Christian hearts were filled with gratitude to God for the way He had wrought with these brethren, and bade them Godspeed as they went on their way to their chosen fields.