Work and Workers by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 17, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 45.

Work and Workers

By Editor

IN Kuala Lumpur, Java, four Tamils have recently been baptized after being instructed in the Bible. One is a government bookkeeper, and the Sabbath has been granted him, on condition of his working the other six days. Some unbaptized candidates in this field are already paying tithes.

AUSTRALIA has just sent two colporteurs to China. This is outside the regular work of that division in supporting the work in the South Sea Islands and Malaysia.

THE past year has seen the acceptance of the advent message by thirty individuals in Queensland, Australia.

Two young men, recent converts, of Cunningham, Victoria, Australia, performed quite a feat in going to school this year. They rowed more than 250 miles around the coast to Sydney in an open seventeen-footer of their own construction, called the Advent, and it was in weather rough enough to make things interesting also. Aside from the object of adventure, they had the incentive of being able to put Adventist literature into places along the coast which are not reached by railway.

THE Fiji training school for native workers has abundantly justified its establishment.

Four natives from that island are now helping at our mission in British New Guinea, and several in other islands.

OUR Southern New England Conference voted to omit their camp-meeting, and ask the members to devote the money thus saved to the emergency fund, to repair the loss to the mission treasury of the help given by European believers, and to help them also when the way opens.

JUST before the war, the sanitarium at Gland, Switzerland, was overflowing with patients. The sanitarium work and the publishing work on the continent are practically at a standstill during the war.

OUR large sanitarium at Skodsborg, Denmark, has been taken over by the government for use as military barracks. Thus even in the neutral countries of Europe, all peaceful endeavors for human good are hampered or suspended on account of war.

SIX persons are reported baptized in Lake Leman, Switzerland.

THE Geneva chapel has just been completed.

THE membership of the Latin Union increased by 121, or about ten per cent, during the year just passed. 1,200 members were baptized in Germany last year. There are about 63 members in Belgium, and 47 in Algeria. The Rumanian field has been organized.

SEVENTY-ONE Indians of South America were recently baptized at our Indian mission at Plataria, making the membership there nearly 180. Many more were desirous of being baptized, and as far as we know, were quite prepared, but were unable to be present at the baptismal service. There are 175 members in the Lake Titicaca mission.

TWENTY individuals went forward in a recent baptismal service in Brazil.

A MEMBER of the Japanese church in Oakland, California, has commenced the publication of a Japanese monthly devoted to the "proclamation of faith in the Bible." It has sixteen pages, including the cover, and ought to grow and do much good.