p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 58. (11/23/1916)

Earlier text: Graphic Representation as to Total Funds, Foreign Mission Funds, and Membership, 1863 to 1915

Notes of Travel

By Arthur G. Daniells

From a Personal Letter from Elder A. G. Daniells

WE have had a most restful, enjoyable trip since leaving Washington. We spent one day in Los Angeles. At Loma Linda I spoke to the medical students, and in the evening to the church. I also spoke to the Glendale Sanitarium family. It was a pleasure to meet all these dear friends. The young people at Loma Linda are an earnest class.

We spent one day in Fresno, with my people. My mother is quite well, and seemed to enjoy our visit. We had a large meeting of our people the night I was there. Some came forty miles in their automobiles.

I had a very enjoyable time at St. Helena. Friday night I was at the college. This institution is full, and the student body is of a good quality. It seemed to me that a large majority of the students have their faces turned toward the mission fields. At nine o'clock Sabbath morning [October 28] I met the St. Helena Sanitarium Board and heads of departments to talk over their plan or desire to help us launch good treatment-rooms and a dispensary in a mission field. They feel that they owe this to the cause, and they believe such an effort will deepen the religious life of the whole family. I was greatly pleased with the attitude of Brother C. E. Rice and Dr. G. E. Klingerman, and, in fact, with that of the whole staff. Our meeting at eleven o'clock filled the church to the doors.

In the afternoon I ran down to Oakland, where a large audience gathered at seven o'clock in the Oakland church. It was most encouraging to meet these warm-hearted, earnest people.

At 9 P. M. we left for Portland, Oregon. Here we had two services, one in the church at 2:30 and the other in Woodman's Hall at 7:30. Although it was a wet day, both buildings were full. There must have been a thousand or twelve hundred people in the public hall. They came in from all around Portland, as far as seventy-five miles away. I had a very pleasant visit with Elder H. W. Cottrell. He is greatly appreciated by the laborers and believers in his conference.

We left Portland after our meeting last night, and shall put in a full day with the college folks here [at Walla Walla]. About nine o'clock tonight we leave for Seattle, where we are to hold meetings tomorrow and tomorrow night. Then at eleven o'clock we leave by boat for Vancouver, where we expect to arrive at eight o'clock Thursday morning, and to sail on the “Empress of Asia” at eleven o'clock.

I have found our people of good courage all along the way. I think I have never seen a deeper interest in our great missions problem. A. G. DANIELLS.

Howells Join Bahamas Mission

We have omitted to chronicle the departure, in September last, of Prof. C. G. Howell, of Tennessee, who, with Sister Howell, sailed from New York for Nassau, Bahama Islands, to engage in school and church work. Brother and Sister Howell have for years been connected with school work in the South, and we are glad to see them joining the little staff of the Bahamas Mission.

A Word from China

WE give the following items from a personal letter received from Brother and Sister M. G. Conger, who went to China with the large company sailing August 1:—

“The first two weeks of our visit in Shanghai have passed pleasantly, while awaiting the decision of the Division Committee as to our location. In a few days we start with Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Selmon and Brother and Sister R. D. Loveland for Peking. No work has been done in the capital province, so we have before us a large field. The first year we shall spend in the Peking language school, and then we hope to begin active work. As yet we have seen but little of the great China, but we have had a vision of her great need, and are anxious to do our part in meeting this need.

“Brother F. A. Allum is to have charge of the Shanghai school, and he has already started for his station, one thousand five hundred miles in the interior, to get his family. Brother and Sister C. L. Blandford and Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Andrews accompanied him, for they are to settle in that section, with Brother M. C. Warren. Brethren R. J. Brines, O. B. Kuhn, and H. O. Swartout, and probably others, will attend the Nanking language school during the winter. Brethren C. C. Morris and H. B. Parker go to south China, and Brother E. J. Urquhart to Korea. Brother Lyman Bowers remains at Shanghai to connect with the publishing house as secretary and treasurer. Brother J. G. White goes to a central province.

“We left the States wondering what those here would do with us,—the largest company ever sent out by our Mission Board at one time,—but when we saw how the brethren here had to figure and plan to answer the calls and fill vacancies, and realized that there were not enough of us to go round, there came home to us a sense of the greatness of the work to which we had come. We are glad we are here.”

Ministerial Institute for Colored Workers

By C. B. Stephenson

At the recent Autumn Council it was recommended that an institute for the colored people of the North American Division Conference be held in Huntsville, Ala., January 3-11. It is desired that all the ministers and the licentiates, as far as possible, come together from the North and the South, to spend nine days in earnest study as to how we can increase the efficiency of the ministry.

The institute will be held at the Oakwood Manual Training School. Elders I. H. Evans and G. B. Thompson have promised to be present and give instruction.

The conference will pay traveling expenses and allow salaries. The Oakwood School will furnish rooms. The delegates will only have to pay board.

The school has opened with more students present than ever before enrolled in the same month, and many others are expected to come. The institute will be a great inspiration to them, and we are sure our ministers from all over the field will enjoy the time spent with us at Oakwood. Write to your president and make arrangements to attend. Be in the chapel at nine o'clock on the morning of Jan. 3, 1917.

C. B. STEPHENSON.

Nash Family Sails for Fiji

From the Australasian Record we learn that Brother J. E. and Mrs. Nash sailed September 28, from Australia, for Fiji. Brother Nash leaves the union conference office as accountant, to take the work of secretary and treasurer of the Central Polynesian Conference.

Workers Bound for West Indian Field

Two weeks ago Elder J. L. Shaw, assistant secretary of the General Conference, sailed from New York, to spend two months attending meetings in the West Indian Union Conference. Last week Brother H. H. Hall, of the Pacific Press, passed through Washington, en route to the same field, where he will spend some time in the interests of the publishing work.

Baptisms in Kingston

WRITING from Jamaica, West Indies, Elder A. J. Haysmer says: “At the close of last Sunday evening’s service in the Kingston church, Elder G. A. Roberts baptized thirty-two persons who had been for some time in the baptismal class. There are nearly as many more in the new class. One hundred and twenty-eight have been baptized in the Kingston church this year. The Lord is surely blessing. Our goal is one thousand new members baptized this year in the West Indian Union Conference. I think we are going to reach it.”

South African Workers Answer the Call

A NUMBER of brethren in the South African provinces have recently responded to the call of the mission fields. Brother Charles Sparrow, a farmer in Cape Colony, has joined the Maranatha Mission staff, turning his farm into other hands. When Brother W. H. Anderson was released from the Barotseland Mission in order to accompany his wife, who has been ordered out of Africa for a time, Brother F. R. Stockil, of Natal, responded to the call of need, and has gone to the Pemba station, to take Brother Anderson's place. We note also that Brother Frank McDonald, who was in business in Natal, is joining one of the other mission stations.

A Note from Elder Guy Dail

A NOTE from Elder Guy Dail, dated The Hague, October 18, says, with reference to the crowded conditions in some of our institutions and their lack of greater facilities: “In these times it does not hurt if we have to crowd together a bit. Think of the many millions who have to curtail their expenses and put up with greater inconveniences. One of the lessons of the present time for our church members is that many of their luxuries can be cut off without injury. How many of our brethren are now able to get on with much less than formerly! They are learning that, if nothing else. We had to cut our periodicals down in size. They sell just as well as before; in fact, if we compare August, 1916, with the same month of last year, there is a gain for this last August of over $3,000 in our sales. Our canvassers are doing well. We hear that Brother M. Pönig, of the Pare Mission, is now in Ahmednagar, India, as prisoner of war. We know nothing of his wife or of other missionaries in German East Africa.”