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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 19, 1914

Missionary News and Bereavements

By Editor

LAST week, C. E. Moon and wife, of California, and Miss Jessie Butler, whose home is in North Carolina, sailed from New York for Porto Rico, in response to earnest pleas from that field for help. They spent the school year so far here at the seminary in earnest study, and go on prepared to do gospel medical missionary work on the island. A hearty welcome is assured them.

WE deeply regret to learn through others of the serious illness (due to a nervous breakdown) of Sister MacGuire, wife of Elder Meade MacGuire. This has necessitated Elder MacGuire's leaving his field work in connection with the North American Division Missionary Volunteer Department, and returning to his home in Loveland, Colo. We hope that the prayers of our readers will ascend for Sister MacGuire's speedy restoration to health.

A CABLEGRAM was received at the General Conference office Wednesday morning, March 11, from South Africa, announcing the sad news of the death of Sister Arthur Ingle, better known here as Miss Mary Cobban. At the time Miss Cobban accepted the call to South Africa, she was teaching in the Takoma Park church school, and her leaving caused a real heartfelt sorrow on the part of every pupil in her room, for she was dearly loved by all. The brief cablegram only announced that she had been seriously ill for some time and died March 8. The sorrowing mother and sister in the West, and brother, H. H. Cobban, connected with the North American Division Conference treasury here, will have the sympathy and prayers of all.

WE are pleased to note in the report from the Central China Mission, as published in this number, that of the 270 persons baptized in that field during 1913, three fourths came directly from the heathen world. This is an indication of the manner in which God is carrying this message to all nations and tongues.

THE Commissioners of the District of Columbia have reported to the House District Committee their official disapproval of eleven bills now before Congress. One of these was the Heflin Sunday Bill, prohibiting labor on buildings in the District on the first day of the week. The commissioners gave as their reason for the disapproval of this bill the fact that all such work is emergency labor, and therefore the bill would be against the public interest.

SHORTLY after reaching Cape Town, South Africa, Brother R. P. Robinson, who recently went out from the Seminary, was forced to go to the Cape Sanitarium. It developed that he was suffering from appendicitis, and Sabbath afternoon, January 31, he was operated on. It proved to be a very serious case, but when Brother W. B. White wrote, February 4, hope was entertained that Brother Robinson would make a good recovery.

ELDER W. G. Kneeland passed through Washington Thursday of last week on his way to Panama, where he will connect with the West Caribbean Conference. At present his family will remain in West Virginia. The West Indian Union Conference is not a new field to Brother Kneeland, as he spent several years in labor there up until about four years ago. With renewed health and strength, he gladly turns toward this needy field once more, and is sure to receive a warm welcome.

THE Tsungwesi Mission, Eastern Rhodesia, South Africa, has been forced to pass through another trial, in that Brother and Sister Jewell, who accompanied Brother and Sister Sturdevant on their return from their furlough, to take the place made vacant by the death of Lynn Bowen, were compelled recently to go to the Cape Sanitarium for treatment. Brother Jewell was seized with an attack of rheumatism that did not yield to common treatment. It is hoped that by April they will be able to return to their work.

ALL will read with interest the report by Elder I. H. Evans, of the excellent meeting held in the Western Canadian Union Conference. The Lord's blessing is not confined to times or seasons or localities. Everywhere and on every occasion where the people of God open their hearts and reach out their hands to seek his blessing, he responds to their desires. Let those who are denied the privilege of communion with their brethren remember this. In our own homes, alone in our own closets with God, we may obtain the richness and fullness of his blessing.