p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 28. (7/9/1914)

Earlier text: Colporteurs’ Summary for May, 1914

Holst Sails for Jamaica

On June 30, Brother A. E. Holst, of Mount Vernon College, Ohio, sailed from New York for Jamaica, West Indies, to engage in the colporteur work.

Tent Work in Turkey

ON a card received from A. J. Giron, British Post, Smyrna, Turkey, he writes: “I am in a village, occupied with the ‘tent work, the first one privileged to obtain permission for such work in Turkey.”

McCoy En Route to Tahiti

J. R. McCoy, of Pitcairn Island, reached Australia by way of South America, a few weeks ago, en route to Tahiti, Society Islands, with which field he was invited to connect more than three years ago. He reports that Brother and Sister Adams, recently arrived in Pitcairn from Australia, are doing well and have won the hearts of the people.

Daniells Visits Honolulu

AN interesting report has been received at the Mission Board office from Elder A. G. Daniells, written after he had spent eight days in Honolulu, studying conditions and counseling with the workers. The brethren there greatly appreciated having Brother Daniells with them these few days. He was booked to sail for New Zealand on the steamship “Marama,” June 17.

Mission Work in Macedonia

BROTHER F. FRAUCHIGER sends us the following word from Saloniki, Turkey: “I greet you with 1 Thess. 1: 2, 3. I am on a round trip in Macedonia. All the depots and landing places are overcrowded with Bulgarian, Turkish, and Greek fugitives. One is chasing out the other one. The misery is great. In New Bulgaria the work is onward. Last Sabbath I had my first baptism (a Greek sister of Thessalonica), in the Mediterranean Sea. Now I am on the way to Smyrna. At Odemish, near Colossæ, we have pitched our first tent.”

Missionary Opportunities in Morocco

ELDER W. E. HANCOCK, of Algiers, North Africa, has recently made a visit to Morocco, to study conditions there. He says: “There is no other field in all North Africa where all lines of missionary work are open to missionaries as in Morocco. There are absolutely no legal restrictions. Medical missionaries may enter the country and do all kinds of medical missionary work without any examinations. Schools and dispensaries may be freely established.”

Workers Transfer to Panama

We learn that Mrs. W. G. Kneeland and her son George sailed from New York, June 20, to join her husband in Panama, where he has been laboring for several months, being now president of the West Caribbean Conference. At Kingston, Jamaica, Brother and Sister F. H. Raley will join them, as the West Indian Union headquarters are being transferred to Cristobal, where these workers will locate.

Archaeology Confirms Genesis Kings

“CONFIRMATION of one of the most warmly controverted passages in Genesis has been discovered by archeologists, who have deciphered a Babylonian votive offering now in the possession of Yale University. It has been asserted for years by certain critics that the names of the four kings mentioned in the fourteenth chapter of Genesis as having invaded Palestine in the days of Abraham were ‘etymological inventions of imaginary characters,’ and it was held that the entire historical background for the patriarchal stories was different from that given in Genesis. Now the pick and the shovel of the archeologists come to the support of the Biblical record. The Yale tablet is in the form of a conical brick, dedicated to the goddess Inima, or Ishtar. It is written in Sumerian, the non-Semitic language of the early period. The last two kings of Larsa were, according to the Yale tablet, Eri-Aku (Arioch) and Rim-Sin (Rim-Aku), sons of Kudur-Mabug, the Elamite, who was also suzerain of Palestine and Syria. Chedorlaomer, mentioned in the fourteenth chapter of Genesis, was probably another son, in the opinion of the Yale authorities. These Yale archeologists point out that the knowledge that Arioch was the son of an Elamite king, who claimed to be the suzerain of Palestine and Syria, is a remarkable confirmation of a detail in this Old Testament narrative, in that it furnishes a reason why Arioch, of Ellasar (Larsa), who was a son of an Elamite king, was allied with Elam. Moreover, it is known that Amraphel, of Shinar, was subservient to Elam until he overthrew its power in his thirty-first year.”

Harvest Ingathering Review

By T. E. BOWEN

LAST week the Southern California Conference ordered 10,000 of the Harvest Ingathering REVIEW. These are desired sent in one order to their tract society address, and will mean a fair-sized truck load of papers. Their portion of the $100,000 goal is $5,231, and they expect to reach it, but it will mean doubling their actual Ingathering cash receipts — $2,438.64 — of last year. Many other conferences probably have about the same thing to do, and we trust they, like Southern California, will begin early to plan for a strong, definite work. T. E. BOWEN.

Reports from Western Meetings

ELDERS I. H. Evans and W. T. Knox returned to their offices last week from visiting Western meetings. They report excellent meetings in those conferences which they have visited.