p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 25. (6/19/1913)

Earlier text: News from Mexico and Philippines

Further Appointments to Fields Abroad

By William Ambrose Spicer

FROM the close of the General Conference until Friday, the thirteenth, the General Conference Committee was in daily session, considering mission field matters.

Committee actions relating to the movement of laborers were taken as follows:—

A. G. Daniells, president of the General Conference, to plan visits to other lands as follows: Europe, July to September; West Indian Union, November; July, 1914, to Australasia; thence to India, in December, 1914, until spring of 1915; to Egypt, the Levant, and the Balkans, April to June, reaching Germany in time for the first European Division session, July, 1915.

W. E. Hancock and wife, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Europe, for Spanish work.

R. N. Studt and wife, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Venezuela.

R. Joyce and wife, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Great Britain, for the book work.

N. S. Miller, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to the East Caribbean Mission, for the book work.

George F. Furnival, of South Lancaster Academy, to Jamaica, West Indies, as a teacher.

M. B. Butterfield and wife, of Iowa, to Trinidad, West Indies.

F. Burton Jewell and wife, of Nebraska, to South Africa, to join the Tsungwesi Mission, where recently we have suffered the loss by death of Brother Lynn Bowen.

J. C. Rogers and wife, on furlough, from Africa, to return to that field to open a new region in Northeast Rhodesia.

Carl Reidt and wife, of New Jersey, to Brazil.

Miss L. Corinne Hay, of Massachusetts, to Brazil, to engage in Bible work.

Carl C. Specht and wife, of South Missouri, teachers, to Brazil.

Miss Florence White, of South Lancaster Academy, to Persia, spending some time before departure in the Washington Dispensary.

Miss Anna Hoffman, of the General Conference Office, to Jamaica, West Indies.

R. Hyder, of British Guiana, to India.

Miss Iva Sumner, of South Lancaster Academy, to Jamaica, as teacher.

Jacob Peters and wife, teachers, of North Dakota, to Brazil.

Henry Haefft and wife, of the Foreign Mission Seminary, to Brazil.

Henry Mangold, of the Friedensau School, Germany, to Ecuador, South America.

James Thompson, of California, to Uruguay, South America.

A number of other similar actions taken may be reported later, after consultation with those concerned.

It is evident that plans for so large an extension of the work in mission fields can be carried out only by continued and ever-enlarging liberality on the part of the believers.

But the time has fully come for the message to spread through all lands, and the General Conference believes that our people will respond as never before to calls such as never before pressed upon us.

W. A. SPICER. Secretary.

Sabbath School Memory Verse Cards

Now is the time to order Sabbath-school Memory Verse Cards for the third quarter.

Students in Publication Field Work

THE field force engaged in the sale of our publications will be largely augmented this summer by scores of students from our schools. Let us remember these faithful men and women in our prayers.

Conference Delegates Remain in Washington

Nearly all the delegates have left Washington. Several of the leading brethren remained over last Sabbath, meeting in committee in an endeavor to finish the consideration of some questions referred from the recent Conference.

General Conference Proceedings Completed

By Editor

WE complete in this number the report of the proceedings of the recent General Conference. This will enable us to resume our regular departments in future numbers. We realize that the duplication of the Conference reports in the REVIEW AND HERALD has been quite unnecessary for the benefit of those who were subscribers to the Bulletin, but a large number of our REVIEW readers did not have access to the Bulletin reports. For the benefit of these it was deemed best to give an abbreviated report of the Conference proceedings, together with some half-dozen of the large general departmental and field reports.

Our Midsummer Offering

By I. H. Evans

The fourth Sabbath in July has been set apart as the time for the Midsummer Offering. The Mission Board has need of liberal offerings at this time. The increased expense in pushing out the large recruiting force calls for the hearty support of every loyal heart.

Those who have read the General Conference Bulletin and the REVIEW AND HERALD must have been impressed with the large number of workers appointed to mission fields abroad. The treasurer has estimated the cost to the Mission Board of placing these new workers in their respective fields to exceed $60,000. If new homes were included, $12,000 must be added, making $72,000 extra expense.

Why should not this occasion see the largest Midsummer Offering in our history? Why not every one definitely plan to contribute a goodly sum for the Lord's work? The workers are ready to go. The fields are white for the harvest. The Macedonian cry comes from all quarters of the heathen world. The people of these darkened lands are turning with longing hearts to the Christian nations of the world, pleading for help.

A Chinese sister heard the truth through one of our workers, and when the promise of eternal life came to her and she yielded her heart to God, she gave vent to her feelings in weeping aloud. When asked the cause, she said: “I cannot comprehend how you could believe such blessed news so long, and not come here sooner. Last year my poor mother died a heathen. She never heard of the love of God, and died without Christ. Had you come one year sooner, I am sure my dear mother would have believed. Now she is lost forever.”

Not less than 36,000,000 heathen die annually with no knowledge of God, and without hope of the life to come. In this offering we can raise sufficient funds to place twenty families in heathen lands. The call of God is for action. Let us be prompt to respond to the call.

I. H. EVANS.