Progress of the Work in China
FROM Amoy, Fukien Province, China, Brother B. L. Anderson reports the following: "On my last trip in the interior there was a splendid opening. Eighty-nine persons enrolled their names, signifying thereby their faith, and willingness to obey the message. I was much encouraged." Pastor J. J. Westrup writes from Lo Wan Ho, Yen-Cheng station, Honan, that sixty-eight persons have been baptized in Honan this year. At the close of the Bible school which he is conducting at that place, a number of new native laborers will enter the employ of the mission. Property has been procured in Chang-Sha, the capital of Hunan, for use in the evangelistic work in that city. At one of our out-stations in this province, the native church has just procured land on which to erect church and school buildings. During his visit to this place, Pastor R. F. Cottrell buried nine candidates in baptism. He says that including these, he has during the year administered this rite to 144 persons. These converts are, with rare exceptions, the fruit of the native workers' efforts. During 1913, 270 persons have been welcomed to church fellowship in central China through baptism, most of these coming to us directly from heathenism. ON March 5 Elder J. S. and Mrs. Yates, of Kansas, sailed for Sumatra, responding to an urgent call from the Malaysian Mission for help. About the middle of March C. E. Moon and wife and Miss Jessie Butler sailed from New York for Porto Rico, to engage in medical missionary work. Elder W. G. Kneeland left about the same time for Panama, where he will connect with the West Caribbean Conference. Later in the month Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Stuckey started on their journey to South Africa, to enter the Cape Sanitarium, in response to a pressing call from that institution for additional help in their nurses' department, because of the increasing patronage. On April 4 Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hiner sailed from New York for Kingston, Jamaica, where they will assist in conducting treatment rooms. On the eleventh of the month Mr. and Mrs. Allen Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mershon, new recruits to the Malaysian Mission, sailed from San Francisco to Singapore. THE names of seven persons in the New South Wales Conference have been passed in for baptism. On Sunday, March 1, in the Windsor church, Victoria, Australia, baptism was administered to six persons, and they, with three others, united with the church at Richmond. There are ten new believers as a result of the recent effort at Richmond. At Warburton four have received baptism. Four at Oakleigh have taken their stand to obey all the commandments of God. At Colac five souls have taken a decided stand for the message, one of whom is the owner of a large sawmill. A LETTER from one of our native teachers in Fiji tells of another high chief's having embraced the message for this time. The chief requested that a preacher be sent to his island, as he wanted a school started there. He said if our workers would give the teacher, he would give a piece of land, planted with coconuts, for school purposes, and would also guarantee fifty students as soon as the school was ready for opening. Much as our workers would like to help, they can not, as