“I Will Make You Fishers of Men”
World-Wide Fulfilment of the Promise — Consecrated
Christians in All Parts of the World Obey
“FOLLOW Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” “Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations. . . . teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you.” IN reporting the closing of the men’s school in China, Elder Westrup writes, “I never before received so much light and strength from the study of the book of Revelation as I have this winter.” Such is “I never before received so much light and strength from the study of the book of Revelation as I have this winter.” Such is commonly the experience when an attempt is made to help others,—the giver receives indirectly as much as the receiver gets from him. THE general meeting in the Fukien district concluded with the baptism of fourteen. The torrential rains toward its close failed to break up the interest, though attendance was somewhat diminished. The Chinese brethren show their zeal for the message by leaving their work to go out into the villages and urge the country people to come in. DR. LAW KEEM, working in Wu Chow, Kwangsi, China, had an unenviable experience with the floods there. The water rose steadily for nearly a week, and attained a level eighty feet above the normal, flooding their courtyard to a depth of ten feet, and forcing them to take refuge up-stairs. The losses throughout the district were of course enormous, but the mission property was mostly saved. All communication was by boat. For water supply they took from the surrounding flood, boiling it by burning drift wood that could be picked up. Their books and other belongings were floated out into the court in a sudden night rise of the water, but were rescued by means of a raft made of the doors. In spite of these trials, they reported that they were of good courage, and that there were prospects of baptizing about fifteen on the next visit to outstations. IN a recent tour through Hunan province, Elder R. F. Cottrell organized four new churches, making a total of twelve in the province. IT is good news to us that our workers in China have secured a rest home at a summer resort in the Lu San range. Only those who know the heat of the tropical plains in summer can realize the importance of this for the health of the mission forces. THE book “Bible Readings” in the Mandarin dialect is now ready. This work has had a circulation of over 2,000,000 copies in the original English. This new edition is well printed on good paper, and illustrated. AFTER an exciting trip through the gorges of the Yang-tse, during which there were frequent close calls in the rapids, Elder Allum and party have arrived at Chung-king, Szechuen, and established themselves as the western outposts of our missions in China. This is on the borders of Tibet, and we may expect a beginning in that land before long. They have already a Sabbath-school of fifty members in Chung-king, and three weekly Bible classes. DURING August the subscription list of the Chinese Signs of the Times increased from 81,000 to 88,000, with no indication that the rate of increase would slacken. THE Japanese Mission has definitely decided upon a workers’ training school. A REVIEW of the Korean Mission work in connection with the general meeting held last spring, gives these encouraging figures for the year: The attendance at the meeting was 180. Out of more than four hundred who had commenced during the year to keep the Sabbath, 139 had been baptized. The Sabbath-school enrolment was 1,100. Tithe from native sources supplied one eighth of the mission expense, including school and668publications. Those present at the meeting carried home 18,100 tracts to use in missionary work. SEVENTEEN missionaries were due to sail from Seattle September 26, four for India, and the rest mostly for China. NINE believers have been baptized in Bombay since the last report. FOUR workers, two returning from furlough and two fresh recruits, arrived in India in July. REPORTING from Manila, Elder Finster states that he has appointments to officiate at the baptism of sixty-nine persons at various points in the country around. The first Adventist tract in the Cebuian language is just off the press, and an Ilocano tract is also finished. “He has appointments to officiate at the baptism of sixty-nine persons at various points in the country around.” WE have been receiving copies of our Tagalog monthly, Patnubay ng Katabusan. We do not know what the title means, but we can see it is a good paper. It is a neat 32-page magazine size; and in recognition of the native desire to learn European languages, it is made up with four pages of Spanish and two of English, along with twenty-six of the Tagalog. IN New Zealand, the translation of “Bible Readings” into the Maori language has just been completed. IN our Singapore Sabbath-school the lesson is taught in five languages. SPEAKING of the willingness of people to study, a worker in Singapore writes: “We do not have to go and search for them. The Lord sends them to us before we hardly have time to get settled and look around.” “We do not have to go and search for them. The Lord sends them to us before we hardly have time to get settled and look around.” A MAN in German New Guinea got the address of the Java Mission in a Malay tract, and is now an interested student of the Bible by correspondence. A large number of tracts have also been sold by persons unconnected with our work, in Ambon and other small islands between New Guinea and Java. Two lepers in the asylum of an islet off the coast of Aitutaki, Cook Islands, have requested church fellowship of one of our workers. A man and wife on the island itself are also seeking instruction. W. H. S.