PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH JUST COMPLETED
their hands are full. Let us pray that God will raise up workers to fill this and many like calls.
TWELVE at Cape Town, South Africa, have decided in favor of the message, and eight have been baptized. Others are in the balance. A school with an enrolment of forty-two pupils, located at Parow, has just been taken into the conference organization. At one of the schools in the Blantyre district, thirty-five or more have joined the class for baptism, and it is hoped that many of these will enter our school at Malamulo next year pursuant to receiving training in teaching.
ELDER L. V. FINSTER writes from the Philippines: "With the help that has been sent us from the home land, we have been able to open missions in three new languages this year. Elder Roy Hay has gone to the Ilocano people, in northern Luzon; Elder E. M. Adams to the Hoilo-Visayan people, on the islands of Panay and Negros; and Dr. Carlos Fattebert and Brother Robert Stewart to the Cebu-Visayan people, on the island of Cebu."
DURING April the following missionaries left Europe for Africa: Brother Matter and wife, to British East Africa; Sister Barho, Brother and Sister R. Lusky, and one other brother, to the Victoria Nyanza Mission, in German East Africa. On March 24 Elder R. S. Griggs sailed from England for Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, where he will aid in the opening of new territory in Nigeria and the Gold Coast.
BROTHER W. C. WALSTON, of the Solusi Mission, South Africa, reports regarding the work there: "We recently baptized twelve candidates, and there will be others in the near future. We have sent out one of our older native teachers to do evangelistic work among the native villages. He reports a good interest where he has been."
PASTOR A. H. PIPER tells of the dedication of a newly erected church at Narrogin, West Australia. The brethren in charge of the tent mission at Bayswater report that several persons have taken hold of the truth. At North Perth there have also been encouraging indications that the Spirit of the Lord is at work, and a number have given their hearts to God. Several in Osborne Park have been converted.
IN spite of revolution and turmoil, the message is progressing in Mexico. Brother G. W. Caviness, on a recent trip in the southern part of the republic, baptized eleven on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Letters from Torreon and Monterey state that the brethren there are still alive and well, and several persons at each place desire baptism.
IN addition to the work in the foreign field, we note the baptism of 197 persons in this country, 45 added to the church, and 337 conversions in the past six weeks. Ten church buildings have been dedicated, seven churches organized, one church building erected, and six Sabbath-schools organized.
ELDER R. C. PORTER, of the Asiatic Division, writes that on account of the appointment of the goodly number of new recruits to that field at the time of the last General Conference, it has been possible for the division to open six new mission fields during the last year.
FROM Fiji word comes from one of our workers that the "buli" of his district, and his family, have accepted the truth, and are now waiting for baptism. The "buli" is the head man in a district, who has a number of town chiefs under him.
OUR little church in Nassau, Bahama Islands, are just completing the erection of a house of worship. Although they are but nineteen in number, they hope to dedicate their building free from debt. This property is valued at $1,350.
WE learn that five persons on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, off the east coast of Africa, have commenced to obey the message. It is expected that a worker will be sent there soon to labor for a time.
FROM the Maranatha Mission, in Africa, comes the news that eight converts have been baptized and united with us; and twenty-six at Tsungwezi Mission, in southeastern Rhodesia, Africa, have received this rite.
AT the recent New Zealand camp-meeting, six souls took their stand for the truth. Since the camp-meeting of the year previous, ninety-one persons in that field have been baptized.
THE work among the Indians around Lake Titicaca, Peru, South America, is growing very rapidly, seventy-one having been baptized at our mission there since the first of the year.
REPORT of the work for the past two years in Arkansas shows the addition of seventy-two members to the churches in that state. During this same period in Iowa the addition of 176 was noted.
IN Alberta, Canada, during the last biennial period, one hundred received baptism, and an equal number professed faith in this message.
ONE of the members recently added to the church in Denver, Colorado, is a sister ninety-nine years and three months of age.285
BROTHER G. A. HAMILTON reports the baptism of four more persons in Rangun, Burma. Two others expect to be baptized.
A NEW mission station has just been opened in Lagos, in Nigeria, West Africa.
A CHURCH and a school building have been erected at Atchin, in the New Hebrides.
FROM Apia, Samoa, comes the report of the baptism of four persons.
DURING 1913 baptism was administered to thirteen in Oporto, Portugal.
