Missionary News from Russia and Persia

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 29, 1914

Missionary News from Russia and Persia

In a letter from St. Petersburg, Russia, Elder O. E. Reinke, of the East Russian Union, reports that the Russian paper Blagaja West (Message of Grace) is doing a good work. Twenty thousand of a missionary special have been circulated. "In St. Petersburg," he says, "we have three churches, having a membership of 150. Before the month will have closed, there will be a fourth church organized, our first German church. The city is built on a group of islands, and we plan that each church on its separate island shall be a true lighthouse and watchtower."

God's special overruling providence was again recently manifested in the protection of his servants. Elder O. Staubert, wife, and child, also Brother and Sister Oster (Sister Oster is the daughter of Brother and Sister W. B. White, now in South Africa), had their arrangements all made to leave Hamburg, Germany, on a certain train, for their field of labor in Persia. The passport papers of one of the brethren being delayed, it was made necessary at the last minute for them to change their plans and take a later train. This first train was wrecked, forty-five persons being killed and many others injured. Truly it means something to be protected by the Lord. In these days of peril by land and sea, to him who trusts in God how comforting is the promise, "He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust."