R. S. GREAVES: "The command of the Lord is, 'Go ye, . . . and teach all nations;' the promise is, 'Lo, I am with you alway.' Whenever another land is entered, it seems to us the church's response, 'Here am I,' to the command, 'Go ye.' We are glad that Greece can answer the roll-call and say 'Present;' and as workers, we can testify that we have indeed found the promise true, 'Lo, I am with you alway.'"
Mantandane Station, Nyasaland
S. M. AND MRS. KONIGMACHER: "Just in, from five days among our four farthest outlying schools, and found them doing very well. The students in one school that I had trouble in starting now agree to rebuild their schoolhouse without pay. Two other schools have done the same. It would have made your hearts rejoice to hear these naked children of the jungle repeat forty-six verses found in the first twenty-two chapters of Matthew, and to hear them sing the songs of praise. Brethren, we shall reap in due season if we faint not. Hold up our hands a little longer. The work is going. We thank God for a part in it."
Basutoland
E. C. SILSBEE: "To-day I gave a Bible reading to a native minister who was hungering for the truth. Our study covered many points of the message, and it would have done you good to see his dark face light up as he grasped the Bible answers to the many questions that he said had long been in his mind. 'We are looking for the true church,' he said, 'that lives according to the Bible.' I send a few words from two of our native teachers."
PETER MAILANE (interpreter): "We have three stations in Basutoland; but what are they among so many villages dotting the country? Last Sabbath our leader pointed to the map, and said, 'Look, what a work we have before us!' Last week we visited the paramount chief, twenty-five miles from our mission. I gave his people tracts, and they asked many questions, for none had heard anything about present truth. We ask our brethren to have compassion on these poor souls, even as their Master had compassion on the lost world. Send us some young men of intellect, willing to devote their lives to help the natives in this Dark Continent. May the Lord inspire many such to say, 'We will go.'"
L. L. MOLOKOMME (teacher): "Basutoland is a vast country to us who are working in it. It needs more workers. Though the Basutos are contrary to the truth, still we have good and great hope to win more souls to the Lord when he comes to receive his children to the celestial city. Pray for the work here, and the workers."
Egypt
GEORGE KEOUGH: "I am glad to report that our work in Egypt is more prosperous than ever before. The Lord is certainly going before us, opening doors for us to reach those who will receive the truth. What we need is more consecrated workers to fill the openings, and more consecration on our own part, that we may be enabled to pluck the ripened fruit. We make an earnest appeal for prayer on behalf of Egypt and Egypt's workers, that the Lord may continue to open the way before us, and that he may enable us to seize the opportunities presented, and so hasten the coming of our Saviour."
Hongkong, China
S. A. NAGEL: "Our work is but a few months old. Our Sabbath-school began the first of last quarter, and numbered twenty-eight at the close. Sunday, six believers followed their Lord in baptism. Others will soon take the same step. We have just lost a valuable worker, Sister Gertrude Thompson. She, with her sister Ida, had taken, in the previous six months, seven hundred yearly subscriptions for our Chinese Signs of the Times in Hongkong. The most widely read daily paper in the East, the China Mail, has consented to publish two articles a week on the truth."
Main Station, Nyasaland
C. ROBINSON: "The church in Nyasaland sends greetings to the brethren across the seas. Although we have met so few of you, yet we have this in common, that our hearts, like yours, are filled with the desire to finish the work in this generation. The message is spreading in this land. Our boys are out in the villages, preaching the soon coming of Jesus; and at the present time nearly two hundred boys and girls are in the classes preparing for baptism. The heathen in the Portuguese territory are calling for the light, and the way seems to be opening for our entry there, as we have already received permission to 'traverse that district in our work of spiritual, mental, and moral propaganda.' God is opening the way; who will help us to step in? To the east of us also there is a vast Portuguese possession that has not yet been touched by our workers. To the north is a large stretch of country11around the lakes, which is very thickly populated. Here also our banner should be unfurled and the truth preached. We should go right on until we meet with our European brethren on their way south, and with our workers in Rhodesia to the west of us. Truly the work is great. But as we think of how the Lord has opened the way so marvelously in every country, just as soon as we were ready to enter, we know that he is only waiting for us to do our part. Our Lord is waiting. Brethren, who will help?"
China Publishing House
W. E. GILLIS: "'The message to China in this generation,' is our only aim. It greatly buoys our hope to see our new headquarters and press buildings nearing completion. They are a credit to the message. Yet now we feel the lack of a general canvassing agent. We are prepared to produce the very choicest of ammunition, but where are the gunners? God is working miracles with the raw heathen converts. Why do the strong young men linger? The man with the writer's inkhorn is at work; but God help us to remember that the accounting begins with those who have known the message longest and best. Our courage is in the Lord of hosts."
Emmanuel Mission, Basutoland
MURRAY D. KALAKA (Mosuto teacher): "We see souls coming into the truth even amid bitter persecution. Our courage is great in the Lord. We believe Satan's fortifications will be pulled down by the mighty hand of our Redeemer. When your prayers ascend to his throne, please remember us, the weak Basuto people. I know you will pray for us because you love us; that love is shown to us by your sending missionaries to our country to tell us of the soon coming of Christ, and how to get ready to meet him when he comes."
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
H. MEYER: "Have just returned from Espirito Santo, where I held meetings almost every night for ten weeks. Eighteen persons were baptized, and several others reunited with the church. At Menteiga a church of thirty-two was organized. They are building a meeting-house. Here in the great city of Rio we are also resolved to raise money to procure a place of worship as soon as possible. It is a great undertaking, but we trust that the Lord will help us, and that our brethren will remember us at the throne of grace."
Portugal
C. E. RENTFRO: "This morning our Portuguese worker returned to Oporto from Lisbon, reporting nine persons baptized last Sabbath at that place by Brother Paul Meyer. God has greatly blessed the efforts of Brother Meyer in Lisbon, and he writes that the Lord is calling honest souls into the light in that city where we began our labor in Portugal."
Nyasaland
L. ENDARNDA (native teacher): "I am glad in my heart to-day to send you these few words about the great work of the Lord. Our teacher is telling us always about the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. We thank God for his goodness, and for sending us the good teachers to make us know about the coming of the Lord."
REDUCTION OF CARD ADVERTISING MEETINGS, DISPLAYED IN SHANGHAI STREET-CARS (SENT BY F. E. STAFFORD)
Nazareth, South India
EDWARD D. THOMAS: "Nearly four years have passed since Elder J. S. James came here with the third angel's message. We are trying to give this message to the millions of Tamils. At first we opened a small dispensary to help the sick and suffering. Now we have also a school, where one hundred students are instructed by teachers who love the truths of this message. We shall soon have some young men and women from our school who will be able to bear responsibilities in giving the message throughout the whole of south India. Our aim is to work while the day lasts. It is the goal of our ambition to stand by the cause until the work is done."
Porto Rico
WM. STEELE: "From the little island of Porto Rico we send a word of greeting and good cheer. Recently a Porto Rican accepted the truth from reading our missionary paper. This encourages us to continue scattering the printed page. Our needs: Santo Domingo, with 600,000 souls, is still without a worker. The island is in continual revolution, showing that the people are in need of the gospel of peace. Who will say, 'Here am I, Lord, send me'? The victory is ours, for Christ our Captain is leading. To him be all glory and honor, for he is worthy."
Spain
WALTER G. BOND: "We here in priest-ridden Spain are thankful that the time for the annual prayer-meeting is at hand, for our needs are so great and our resources so few. We especially request an interest in the prayers of all God's people at this time. There are only two ordained ministers, four Bible workers, and half a dozen canvassers among the twenty million inhabitants of this field. How small our corps of workers compared with the vastness of the population! Our courage is good, and we are determined to seek God as never before. He has blessed us with more than thirty new believers this year, most of whom came directly from Rome. But we are able to reach so few! We need more evangelical workers, besides a number of good canvassers; and most of all, we need God's special blessing. Pray the Lord of the harvest to raise up Spirit-filled workers to help in this stronghold of the Papacy."
Trinidad, West Indies
J. B. BECKNER: "I am glad to testify to the mercy and goodness of the Lord in preserving our lives the past year. Although hundreds have been laid in the grave by the scourge of disease in our conference, and though a number of our workers and brethren have been stricken, yet no lives have been lost among us. We have been able to plant the standard of light in several new districts, and a goodly number have walked in the light. We ask to be remembered at the throne of grace."
ANOTHER TESTIMONY: "Sister N. H. Pool, bears testimony for Elder Pool, who was down with the fever. She says: 'We are not discouraged, but believe our God is able to raise us above all these things. Twenty-one have been added to the Port of Spain church in the eight months that we have been here, and the work is still onward. Pray for us, that we may be kept humble and in health.'"
Syria
W. C. ISING: "I am just starting for a trip to Lebanon, to visit six places stretching from east to west, where an interest has been created, and some who have begun to keep the commandments of God need to be strengthened. The work is onward, notwithstanding troublous times."
Canary Islands
BERT B. AND MRS. ALDRICH: "This field is small compared with the great mission fields, but the half million people scattered over seven large islands need the light of the message. The power of Roman superstition over the masses is great. Christ's sacrifice has opened the way for these souls, and we owe them the gospel message because of the light God has caused to shine upon our path. The time seems ripe for the introduction of our truth-filled literature. Our courage and faith in the success of the message were never greater. Pray that God will help us find the honest in heart and lead them to the Master."12
Tokyo, Japan
H. KUNIYA: "Three years ago I called on an army officer who lived near the place where I was holding a tent-meeting. He was very angry. Shown a Bible, he said: 'I hate that book, don't open such a book before me.' I visited him often, but without the book in my hand, carrying the Word in my mind. He could not resist the power of God's Word. Before I left the place, he bought a Bible and began to study. Last July, while on my way to camp-meeting, I called on him, and I thanked God when I found that he was ready to follow the Lord. He joined with others in burying the old life in the deep waters, and now he is a pillar of the church in that city. This is a great encouragement, as it shows what the incorruptible seed of the Word can do in such stony ground as Japan. The promise of Isa. 55: 10-13 will be fulfilled in our country some day. Please pray for Japan."
Solusi Mission, South Africa
From our first South African station, W. C. Walston speaks: "The workers at Solusi send greetings. We testify to the goodness and the mercy of God. While there is plague, drought, and sickness all about us, we have been spared and have seen evidences of special blessings. We have only courage and prosperity to mention. We trust we are remembered in your prayers, and that your interest in the good work for 'the brother in black' is in no wise diminishing. Our greatest difficulty is to answer the questions that are asked us: 'How are we to fulfil the great commission to give the message to the millions in Africa? Where are the workers and the means to finish the work?' You in the home lands must help answer these questions. May God move upon hearts to 'come over and help us.'"
Wai Chow, Hakka Land, South China
J. P. ANDERSON: "Last week I heard two heathen pray their first prayer. After the prayer-meeting was over, I could but thank the Lord that in the days of my youth I have been permitted to work for him. I am glad I am in China; glad I am in Wai Chow, and I mean by his help to stay here until he calls me elsewhere or calls me home. I thank God for all of his blessings, and want to do my part in the closing work."
Korea
DR. RILEY RUSSELL: "It has been a good year, and I have had the privilege of baptizing eighty-one persons so far this summer, and others are waiting for baptism. This is in the three north-western provinces alone, which represent a population of about three millions. Elder Butterfield came here in the spring, and we organized two churches. Two or three more companies are ready for organization. It does us good to see these old companies getting strong enough to be organized and to help carry the message and begin to shoulder burdens. Only last week a company with whom I had just spent two days pressed me to the limit to either stay with them for a month or send them some one; but we had no one to send. So all we could say was, The work is great, and all the country must be warned. One of the first believers in Korea, a man seventy-two years of age, has just died, happy and contented in the blessed hope. We believe he will share in the overcomer's reward—because our brethren in the home land furnished the means and men to bring to him the message of life. Our dispensary work at Soonan is running as usual. A Korean, C. S. Kim, who has been in a medical school two years and with us two years, and whose heart is in the message, is doing valiant service, and is making it possible for me to be out in the field so much."
Samoan Islands
H. T. HOWSE: "We are grateful for a part in bringing this message to the people of the isles who wait for God's law. Our hope and courage is strong in the triumph of the message. The spirit of inquiry for the truth is abroad in these islands. One man told me we had come too late. Have we? One young man who has just accepted the message is willing to give up all to give the truth to his people. Pray and give, and God will give to you."
The Influence of Catholicism in Spain
WHAT Rome has done for the countries of the Old World she is anxious to do for America. What has she done for some of the European states in which for years she has had a free hand? A recent census, or investigation, of conditions in Spain by King Alfonso of that country shows that sixty per cent of the land is uncultivated, that thirty thousand towns and villages have no schools, and that of the seventeen million inhabitants twelve million can neither read nor write. Says the Herald and Presbyter of Oct. 23, 1912:—
It is no wonder that the responsible and influential people of Spain have risen up against the domination of Romanism in their country, and are determined on a policy that will bring more of education, intelligence, and prosperity to their people. After long centuries in which Rome has had complete control of state and school and church, it having been until recently a crime to open a Protestant place of worship, the Spanish people are at the very foot of the scale in everything that makes for popular welfare and national greatness.
Is this the sort of help that America is seeking in welcoming the advances of the Roman Catholic Church? Does it desire the inheritance of ignorance and pauperism which has descended to the unhappy people of Catholic countries? Spain is not an exception. Wherever the influence of the Roman Church has been potent in affairs of state, that influence has been withering and blasting to all human progress and advancement. In those countries where the gospel of Christ has had the freest and most untrammeled course, there we see the greatest enlightenment.
Contrast the countries of Latin Europe with those of northern Europe; compare Spain and Portugal and Italy with England and Germany and the Netherlands. Compare Ecuador, Bolivia, and Mexico, and the states of Central America with the United States and the British possessions of the north. The growing influence of Rome in America does not offer greater liberty or enlightenment. Rome boasts that she never changes, and we can truly judge her for the future only by her past. Judging from the past, she has been found wanting in all that makes for spirituality and soul liberty in the church and for civil liberty and enlightenment in the state.
Marital Status of Prisoners
The recent report of the New York superintendent of prisons gives some interesting data showing the relative proportion of single, married, widowed, and divorced persons who have come into the hand of the law. The report shows that in Sing Sing, out of a total of 1,528 prisoners, 903, or slightly over sixty per cent, are single, 542 are married, 78 are widowers, and 5 divorced.
Typhoid Vaccination for Foreign Missionaries
By H. N. Sisco, M. D.
H. N. SISCO, M. D.
VACCINATION has undoubtedly proved itself of distinct value in preventing the ravages of smallpox. The following extracts are presented to call the attention of our brethren everywhere, especially our foreign missionaries, to the question of vaccination for typhoid fever as a valuable prophylactic measure in this disease, with the suggestion that it be more fully used.
"Fox discusses the results of preventive inoculation in the British army in India, showing that the number of cases among the vaccinated troops amounted to 8 per thousand, while among the non-vaccinated it was 18.6; the respective mortality being 18.2 and 26.5 per cent. The vaccination of missionaries is stated as being attended with splendid results." —Journal of Tropical Medicine, Dec. 15, 1910.
"Gosman (United States Army Medical Corps), in summing up the 'Status of Antityphoid Inoculation,' states that 'inoculations against typhoid are valuable as a method of preventing the disease, and are perhaps the most valuable single asset which we have in combating an epidemic; that there is no doubt that it should be used in the following classes of persons: nurses, ward attendants, hospital corps, Red Cross assistants, physicians, medical students, and all persons who contemplate a journey into a section where typhoid is known or suspected to exist. Also in communities suffering from an epidemic, and in families in which a case exists.' He states further: 'I am convinced of the harmlessness and at the same time of the effectiveness of the procedure.'" —Journal of the American Medical Association, Oct. 1, 1910.
An editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, June 24, 1911, states:—
"The last report of the surgeon-general of the army adds more evidence to the already overwhelming testimony in favor of the protective value of antityphoid vaccination. The figures given for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, showed an incidence of typhoid fever sixteen times greater among the unvaccinated troops than among the vaccinated troops. Up to Oct. 1, 1910, only 5 cases had developed among the immunized, as against 418 among the non-immunized. Moreover, of these five cases four were so mild as to leave doubt as to the diagnosis, and there were no bad effects of any kind as a result of the vaccination."
A Word of Thanks From the Peruvian Mission
By A. N. Allen
A. N. ALLEN
I WISH to express our sincere gratitude for the hearty response from many of our institutions throughout the world to our request some time ago for stereopticon slides. Missionary work means many things to those not informed. Some believe missionaries to be "wandering Jews," tramps sponging a living, responsible to nobody. Others accuse us of working only among other Protestant denominations, and neglecting entirely the heathen. Some, unfortunately, believe our work is a scheme to make money.
A good variety of slides illustrating our work under all circumstances, favorable and adverse, helps wonderfully in presenting the progress and standing of the great message we are giving to the world.
I also wish to thank those who have shown their interest in our Indian mission in the south of Peru. God has blessed this work beyond our greatest hopes, and there are probably few places where the money spent produces more in actual results. Those who desire a part in this work, which God is blessing so abundantly, are invited to send their offerings to our treasury at Washington, D. C.
General Statement
Report of Work Conducted by Seventh-day Adventists in Non-Christian and Non-Protestant Countries
Compiled by H. E. Rogers, Statistical Secretary, Washington, D. C.
General Statement
IN harmony with the Saviour's great commission, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature," Seventh-day Adventists have endeavored to obey this injunction literally by going to the various nations of the world with the gospel message which they bear. And in every land where this truth has been planted, it has borne fruit to the glory of God, to whom all praise is due for the results accomplished, and in whose honor the work has been done.
Soon after the organization of the General Conference in 1863, plans were considered for carrying out the divine commission to preach this gospel to every creature, and steps taken looking toward the accomplishment of this result in as large measure as then seemed possible. But it was not until the year 1874 that active steps were taken in the sending of missionaries to countries outside the United States to promote the interests of this cause. In that year, in accordance with the vote of the General Conference, laborers were sent to Switzerland, to establish a nucleus for the work in that country, where believers had already begun the observance of the tenets held by this body. Work in non-Protestant lands, however, was not entered upon until in the year 1886, when laborers were sent into Russia. From year to year other non-Protestant lands were entered; but work in heathen countries was not begun by this body until the year 1894, when missionaries were sent into Mashonaland, now Rhodesia, South Africa. Other fields have been entered from year to year, until this body is now conducting work in forty-seven non-Protestant countries, and twenty non-Christian lands, supporting laborers in these lands who speak seventy-three different languages and dialects, and issuing publications in sixty-four different languages, for circulation in the countries designated. The total number of foreign missionaries is 586, and of native helpers, 974, a total force of 1,560. There are 140 main stations, 145 sub-stations; 413 churches, with 17,565 adherents; 13 training-schools, having an enrolment of 724; 192 schools and out-schools, with an enrolment of 6,730. Total foreign teachers number 103, and native teachers, 262. The number added in 1911 was 2,679, or a gain of 22.74 per cent. The income from the mission fields for 1911, was $135,234.87, and the amount added thereto by the home base, was $357,587.73.
The Present Report
This is the first report issued by the General Conference dealing specifically with our work in non-Christian and non-Protestant lands. Up to the present we have been content to use the information contained in the regular statistical report of the denomination as being sufficiently complete with reference to our work in mission territory; but our work in such territory is conducted on lines somewhat different from those followed in Christian lands, so that as the cause has grown, and new methods of working have developed, it has been found essential to secure data regarding the various features of work carried forward in mission territory, for the purpose of issuing a separate report on such fields. Comparisons, therefore, can not be made with the statistical report covering these same fields, for the reason that the plan and scope of the two reports are different.
Extent of Work
The foregoing shows that Seventh-day Adventists are now carrying on work in mission territory whose population comprises the major portion of the world. It is true that the force of workers in some of the fields is very small, and yet experience has demonstrated that the gain as a whole is much greater in following this method than in combining a large number in certain fields. And it is only thus that the judgment-hour message as brought to view in the everlasting gospel can be carried "to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," the proclamation of which is the very work which brought this people into existence.
Progress of Work
The progress made in entering the fields herein noted may be illustrated thus: Beginning with 1886, when work was first undertaken in a non-Protestant land, the next decade saw the opening of work in 17 different countries, or 25.38 per cent of all the countries that have been entered; during the next decade, from 1896 to 1905, work was begun in 29 countries, or 43.28 per cent of all; during the six years following, to the present time, 21 other countries have been entered, or 31.34 per cent of all. Thus work in 50 new countries has been begun during the past sixteen years, or 74.62 per cent of all that have been entered since 1886. Therefore the work in three fourths of all the countries that have been entered as mission fields by this body is of comparatively recent date. And while in some fields the work is not yet on a firm basis, and the force is small, these fields will erelong be strengthened. This will be accomplished in two ways: By sending additional recruits from time to time, and, what is more important, by development of resources internally. In addition to strengthening the work in fields already occupied, plans are on foot to enter other new fields, notably Madagascar, Congo, Arabia, etc.
Results of Work
The results of the work for the year 1911 are very gratifying indeed. The report shows that the net gain in baptized members is 2,679. This is a gain of 22.74 per cent for the year. Another excellent result shown is the14large number of pupils in various schools. There is a total of 724 who are taking training for various lines of work, and 6,730 pupils who are taking work of a more elementary character, and who are thus brought in touch with workers giving instruction in Bible doctrines. Many of these pupils will, it is believed, later connect with the work in their respective fields. In Africa alone there is a total of 112 schools, with over 5,000 pupils in attendance from homes which were formerly heathen. Forty-nine teachers have this work in charge, with 156 native teachers trained to assist in a satisfactory manner.
Comparison With Christian Lands
To reach a more accurate understanding of the work to be accomplished in heathen lands, it will be profitable to make a few comparisons respecting work in Christian lands and in heathen countries. This is done in Summary 1, to which attention is directed.
From this it will be seen that the population of certain divisions is entirely out of proportion to the number of workers engaged. Take the Asiatic division, for instance, whose population constitutes 54.65 per cent of the world's population. The workers there employed constitute 8.39 per cent of the total force, and the adherents 2.89 per cent of the total communicants. Compare the above showing with that presented for North America, whose population is 6.39 per cent; the workers 47.42 per cent, and adherents 62.47 per cent.
The difference in the situation of the work in Asia and in North America, for instance, is easily noted by reference to column 6 of Summary 1, where it is shown that if the entire population of each division were grouped into congregations, each worker now laboring in those divisions would have a congregation of the following size: in Asia, 1,830,138; in North America, 37,932. In other words, each worker in Asia has a congregation forty-eight times as large as has each worker in North America.
Other interesting comparisons may be observed, as, for instance, the fact that the total adherents in non-Christian and non-Protestant lands constitutes 15.74 per cent, while adherents in Christian lands are 84.26 per cent, of the total communicants. Comparison with the percentage of population indicates practically the opposite condition; that is, that the mission division has 84.87 per cent of population, and the Christian division 15.13 per cent of the population. Thus it is shown that 15.74 per cent of adherents are in countries whose population constitutes 84.87 per cent, and 84.26 per cent of adherents are in countries whose population constitutes 15.13 per cent, of the total. This is a situation which must surely be changed, so that the proportion shall be more nearly alike in both divisions.
Finances
The total of all funds raised by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in the United States for evangelistic purposes in 1911 constituted a per capita of $32.92 for the membership in that field. The present report indicates that the per capita amount of funds raised in mission territory constituted $7.69 for each of the 17,565 adherents in such territory. In addition there was sent to the support of work in such fields $357,587.73, or a per capita of $20.36 for each of the adherents in those fields, making a total of approximately $28.05 per capita used for the work in mission territory. Deducting the amount sent outside the home base, leaves the per capita expended there at $27.44, thus indicating something of an equalization of funds expended for the home field and the work in mission territory.
Languages Employed
The languages and dialects in which work is conducted orally by laborers under the auspices of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in non-Christian and non-Protestant lands, are as follows:—
Aimara, Kiruri
Amharic, Kisanaki
Arabic, Korean
Armenian, Lettonian
Armeno-Turkish, Lithuanian
Bengali, Malay
Bohemian, Mandarin
Burmese, Marathi
Bulgarian, Maori
Chasu (Kipare), Persian
Cantonese, Polish
Chimanyika, Portuguese
Chinyanja, Rarotongan
Chitonga, Roumanian
Croatian, Russian
Dutch, Samoan
Esthonian, Santali
Fijian, Servian
Finnish, Sesuto
French, Shanghai
Fukienese, Sintebele
German, Slavonian
Greek, Slovakian
Hakka, Spanish
Haklo, Swahili
Hawaiian, Syriac
Hindi, Tagalog
Hungarian, Tahitian
Japanese, Tamil
Javanese, Tigrinya
Java-Malay, Tongan
Italian, Turkish
Kafir (Xosa), Urdu
Karen, Wageia
Kijita, Yao
Kikerewe, Zulu
Kikiden, Total, 73
Languages used in work in Christian lands, in addition to foregoing:—
Danish-Norwegian, Swedish
English, Welsh
Icelandic, Yiddish
Laplandish, Total, 7
Grand total, 80
Languages in Which Publications Are Issued
Languages in which publications are issued by the Seventh-day Adventist denomination in non-Christian and non-Protestant lands:—
Amoy, Garhwali
Arabic, German
Armenian, Greek
Armeno-Turkish, Greco-Turkish
Battak, Hawaiian
Bengali, Hindi
Bohemian, Hungarian
Bulgarian, Ilocano
Burmese, Italian
Cantonese, Japanese
Chasu (Kipare), Java-Malay
Chinyanja, Kafir (Xosa)
Chitonga, Korean
Croatian, Lettonian
Dutch, Lithuanian
Esthonian, Malay
Fijian, Mandarin
Finnish, Maori
French, Marathi
Niue, Urdu (Persian)
Polish, Urdu (Roman)
Portuguese, Wendic
Rarotongan, Wenli
Roumanian, Zulu
Russian, Total, 64
Samoan, The following are issued in Christian lands, in addition to foregoing:—
Santali, Danish-Norwegian
Servian, English
Shanghai, Icelandic
Sintebele, Laplandish
Sesuto, Swedish
Slovakian, Welsh
Slavonian, Yiddish
Spanish,
Tagalog, Total, 7
Tahitian, Grand total, 71
Tamil,
Tongan,
Turkish,
An interesting work is reported in connection with the effort being conducted in German East Africa. Our missionaries found that the language of the Chasu people had not yet been reduced to written form. Their language was studied, and in time a grammar, portion of the gospel, and gospel literature were issued in the Chasu language.
Column 35 of the general table shows a total of ten printing plants engaged in the production of literature in various forms for use in mission territory. In addition, however, there are other presses in near-by Christian lands that are assisting in this work, notably in Hamburg, Germany, and in New South Wales. At the former place literature is prepared in eighteen languages, and at the latter, in seven languages, for use in adjacent mission territory. These presses are not included in the general table. Other work of this character is done in America, Christiana, Stockholm, London, Cape Town, etc.
The entire list of printed matter issued by the denomination includes at present about 350 bound books, 300 pamphlets, 1,100 tracts, and 125 periodicals in 29 languages. The circulation of this literature is an important phase of the work carried on by the workers in mission territory, and many of the persons listed in column 16 as native helpers, are those engaged in the distribution and sale of denominational literature in their respective fields. For the year 1911 the value of all the denominational literature sold throughout the entire world was $1,627,657.83, or $14.93 for every one of the 108,975 communicants.
Table 1, column 1, indicates that work is conducted in ten provinces in China, namely, Kiangsu, Chekiang, Anhwei, Honan, Hupeh, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Hunan, Kiangsi, Fukien. The work there also includes the islands of Formosa and Hainan.
Notes on Table 1
a Columns 7 to 14 give the number of "foreign" missionaries; that is, workers sent from the home base into mission territory.
b In column 18 is given the total of foreign workers and native helpers. This total includes the foreign teachers indicated in column 31, and the number of native teachers given in column 32.
c Duplicate languages are eliminated, so that the totals for each division and for the grand total give the correct number. For a list of languages in which work is conducted orally and also publications issued, see elsewhere in this report.
Summary 1 — Area, Population, Workers, and Percentages, by Divisions
