MISSIONXRYLEADER
Vol. 13
Foreign Mission Day
(Sabbath, October 10)
SELECTED SCRIPTURE READING
Malekula, New Hebrides
BY W. 1). SMITH
THINGS are at a very interesting stage
here on Malekula. We see marked
demonstrations of the working of God's
Spirit.
Many of the people have broken away
from the heathen customs common to
such people, and on our return after a few
weeks' absence we were delighted to find
that the chief also had forsaken his to-
bacco and all other unclean articles used
by his people. This has greatly en-
couraged us, for he seems to have a
decided influence over the others, and as
a consequence many have followed his
good example.
We have commenced a baptismal class,
and many are quite concerned in regard
to this step. Sincere statements of sor-
row for sin have been heard, and this is
surely the indication that the Holy Spirit
has reached their hearts. What we need
most is the power to give them a vision of
Christ, the sinner's friend.
It seemed at first it would be a long
time before we could think of a baptism,
but we have truly seen a wonderful change
in the lives of these people since coming
here a little over a year ago. When by
faith we lay hold of God's promises " He
will change, wonderfully change, the
most discouraging, hopeless outlook," and
" He will do this," the Spirit of Prophecy
tells us, "for the glory of His name." We
have seen such a fulfilment on the west
coast of Malekula and we can only say,
" It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvel-
lous in our eyes."
A man has now accepted the message
who recently took the lives of three na-
tives in a neighbouring district. This
slaughter was simply in settlement of an
account that was owing to his tribe. This
man, Mataniel, did not throw in his lot
with the Tonmiel people when they identi-
fied themselves with the mission, but now
he seems to have a desire to renounce
every evil desire and be true to God.
Both he and his wife and child are living
with us on the mission station, and we be-
lieve that they will remain firm to the
stand they have taken.
These people have certainly been tried
in very many ways by their heathen
neighbours. They have had all kinds of
threats and the enemy certainly worked
hard to wipe them out of existence. But
every attempt thus far has failed and
they have confidence in the Lord, know-
SYDNEY, OCTOBER, 1925
ing that not one of their number has been
killed since deciding for the mission.
I would mention a word about the
interest we have in another part of this
island about four miles from Tonmiel,
namely, Malua Bay. Today a little cluster
of native houses is springing up near the
sa't water to announce the fact that
another Seventh-day Adventist mission
station has commenced work on the
heathen island of Malekula. The first to
take his stand was a bright, middle-aged
native man who, although knowing very
little of the truths of the Bible, has a defin-
ite experience in the things of God, and
it is truly wonderful how the Lord is using
him with one of our native teachers from
Ambrym to bring the message to others.
Recently this man, Harry, and the
teacher, Joe, were paying a visit to some
of the bush people who had invited them
to come and conduct worship in their
village. On arrival there they discovered
that a plan to kill had been formed, and it
was not long before they realised that
except for the help of God their lives were
not worth anything. The Lord specially
interposed in a way that has made this
man and all others connected with the
mission conscious of the fact that a won-
derful God has charge of the lives of His
people. We rejoice to know that the
enemies' agents can do nothing except as
God permits, and we believe these very
men will yet be won over to the cause of
truth. These people are related closely
to the Big Nambus, their villages being
quite close to Malua Bay.
If we could only mention all the inci-
dents which the people have related, we
know it would be an inspiration to the
brethren and sisters. It is good to see
the hand of God changing lives within and
without. Not long ago many of these
people were a dirty, degraded, sin-striken
people. Many had, through contact with
the European also learned the objection-
able habits and practices of the white
man. But they are now learning of the
Christ, who declared He has power to
forgive sins, and it is this knowledge that
is transforming these lives.
" I Have Heard Good News Today ",
Recently Mataniel, the converted mur-
derer, in company with two others from
the mission, went away to work for a
trader at Marlo where some of their friends
were labouring. On Friday these men
began to think about the Sabbath. Mat-
aniel told me afterwards, " We prayed
and asked God to send His Holy Spirit to
work on the white man's heart and make
him willing to give us the Sabbath free
from sundown on Friday." Mataniel was
the spokesman when they went to the
trader and made their request. He was
told that they could work up till one
o'clock on Saturday, " Oh no," said Mat-
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aniel, " even though you do not pay us at
all we cannot think of working after sunset
tonight. This day, tomorrow, is our day
of rest. Sunday is your day, but we rest
tomorrow, Sabbath." The white man
seemed quite willing to let them have the
Sabbath, and it was a wonderful answer to
prayer for these faithful people. The
trader asked Mataniel, " You no eat pig? "
"No," was the reply. "No drink grog? "
" No." "Smoke tobacco ? " " No."
" Well, you eat what ? " Mataniel said, " I
eat clean foods and fish."
You should have seen how Mataniel's
face lighted up as he told me the story,
adding that the trader said, " I have heard
good news today." No doubt it was a
great surprise to this man that a Maleku-
Ian could possibly make such a radical
change.
We have every reason to believe that
a quick work will be done here now.
What we have seen and heard is certainly
evidence that a mighty power is working
in and through these people so recently
enshrouded in midnight darkness. Few
of them can read or write their own lan-
guage, but it is good to know that the gos-
pel of God's lo.te is for the wise and the
unwise, for the barbarian as well as the
scholar. Indeed these poo- souls teach us
many lessons in spite of their apparent
objectionable mode of life.
A Visit to the European
Division Conference
BY F. H. ROBBINS
CONDITIONS are said t be much better
than they were a year Ago, but they rt , e yet
very uncertain. There is no doubt that the
boundary lines created by the peace treaty
in Eastern Europe make permanent peace
impossible. There seems to be a general
feeling of insecurity.
Growing Power of the Papacy
Germany, the land of the Reformation, is
turning back to Rome. It is claimed that
the Jesuits have established on an average
more than 125 schools and monasteries each
year in Germany during the last five years.
All the chancellors of Germany since the
World War have been Catholics.
Suffering for Christ's Sake
There are a number of countries where
our people have been thrown into prison and
expelled. I shall mention only one experi-
ence at this time. March 11-14, Pastors
L. H. Christian, H. F. Scbuberth, and I
held a general meeting with a church in
Eastern Europe. A number of these people
had been stoned, and some of them had
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been imprisoned because of their faith. I
saw three women and two men who had
been stoned. They with others were driven
out of the house where they were holding a
meeting. They ran into the woods at night,
and a mob of men and boys followed them,
intending to club them and stone them.
Finally the mob started in the opposite di-
rection, and ran away from our brethren
and sisters. The next day some one asked
them why they ran from those Seventh-day
Adventist people the night before. They
said, " We saw a fiery serpent running be-
tween us and those people, and we were
afraid, and ran away from them."
Even though Catholicism rules to a great
extent, yet God reigns, and delivers His
people. I shall never forget the expression
of joy and calmness on the faces of those
brethren and sisters when I saw them at the
meeting. The meeting was held in a base-
ment, which resembled the catacombs, and
the windows were kept closed for fear the
officers might hear the speaking There was
no singing except on the Sabbath, and I
noticed a brother draw the window curtains
together so no one could see in. They
seemed to be in fear that an officer might
appear at any minute ; but notwithstanding
this, they entered into the real spirit of wor-
ship. I thanked God as never before that
we are living in a land where every one can
still worship God according to the dictates
of his own conscience.
The Moral Condition
The greatest losses during the war and
after, were not commercial, hut moral and
spiritual. As in America, Europe has gone
a long way down the scale in morality. In
fact, morality can hardly be said to exist in
many places. Crime and corruption of
every kind are pre alenty Horrible mur-
ders, such as Europe has not known in cen-
turies, are common. The marriage tie is
loosely regarded. Atheism is rampant. It
is a time of great peril for the youth. The
old state chu ches have lost their prestige,
and have neither the courage nor the power
to stem the tide of iniquity. The great need
of Europe is a living Christ, as revealed in
the third angel's message.
Our Work
Our membership in Europe is rapit ly
growing, notwithstanding the persecutions
and hardships. The European Division has
11.000 more members than it had ten years
ago. Russia has three times as many as
she had when the war broke out. Germany
had 14,000 when the World War began,
now the membership is 23,000. Jugo-Slavia
has four times as many members as she had
five years ago. The membership in Hun-
gary has doubled in six years. Five years
ago the Rumanian Union Conference had
about 2,000 members, now it haw5,500.
Many of our people in Europe are poor,
but they love God. The tithes and offerings
are increasing. Europe has large mission
fields, such as parts of Africa and Asia, and
other mission districts.
As far as I have travelled over the Euro-
pean field, I think there is great' need for
more chapels or church buildings. The lack
of dwellings has made it necessary since the
war to convert many large halls into apart-
ment,houses. In many places halls cannot
be rented. In some places our ministers
are not permitted to lecture in rented halls.
The laws declare such lectures to be illegal
propaganda. This seems strange, but it is
just what our people have to face over here.
The Need in Europe
The great need is more workers, though
the force is increasing under the efficient
leadership of Pastor L. H. Christian and
his co-labourers. One year ago there were
about 900 colporteurs and 321 ministers,
now there are more than 1600 colporteurs
and 385 ordained ministers. There are also
Bible workers and licensed ministers.
Many people in these countries are hun-
gering for the truth. When they become
Seventh-day Adventists, they are willing to
be imprisoned, beaten, and starved, rather
than give up the faith. They are very jeal-
ous for the cause, and love to do missionary
work. Every Seventh-day Adventist is a
missionary.
Could our people in the homeland see the
thirty-three different countries in the Euro-
pean Division, with people speaking seventy-
five different languages, I am sure it would
touch every heart, and cause every one to do
more at home to send men and means to all
the world, that the work may be speedily
finished.
Missionary Volunteer
Department
Missionary Volunteer Programme
First Week
TRACTS, 1 HEIR VALUE IN
SOUL-WINNING WORK
Opening Exercises.
"Martyrs to th, Tr-.,et Cause."
" How They Work."
" The Influr rice of a Tract."
"The Advantages of Tract Distribu ion."
"Method- of Tract Distribution."
Closing Exercises.
Martyrs to the Tract Came
IN a little town in France there lived a
plain man by the name of Mace Moreau.
He was still entangled in the meshes of
the Catholic Church, and even gained his
livelihood by selling pictures of the saints;
but alter be became affected by the Protest-
ant influences then pervading the very
atmosphere of France and Italy, he-found
no more peace in his old life. He craved
a full draught of the pure knowledge of the
gospel.
Having heard of a school for young
Protestant preachers in Geneva, Switzer-
land, he determined to give up everything
else, and wander thither. He found there
just what he was seeking. Christ then put
before him two questions: "What did I do
for thee? What doest thou for Me?"
And Mace Moreau wanted to do something
for the honour of his Saviour and the
salyation of souls. What more likely thing
than that the former dealer in saints'
images should become a distributor of
tracts? And this he really became.
With a large bundle of small Protestant
writings, Mace Moreau left Geneva for
France in the year 1550. He had already
sold a great part of them before arriving at
Troyes, in Champagne, where he went into
a church in which he hoped to hear a
sermon that might help him. On coming
OCTOBER, 1925
out of the church a Catholic, who was a
stocking-weaver by trade, came up to him,
and soon noticed from his conversation that
the visitor was one of the " religious," a
name given to the Reformers by the French
Catholics. This man determined immedi-
ately to sound the stranger, in order to
be able to denounce him as a heretic. He
therefore pretended that he wished to learn
the truth, and invited him into his house.
Moreau, without the slighest suspicion,
followed the deceiver into his house, and in
the course of conversation presented him
with one of the little books be had with
him. At once the stocking-weaver seized
him, and dragged him before the justice
of the peace, and in a very short time he
was led to the place of execution.
Not only Geneva students, but many
working people in France and Switzerland,
were very zealous at the time of the Ref-
ormation to work for its progress by circu-
lating the Scriptures and tracts. Among
the number was a journeyman shoemaker,
Nicholas Nail, who was born at Mans, in
France. After he had remained a long
time in Lausanne, and had there received
Protestant principles, he started on a
journey to Paris, with his pack of books
and tracts on his back. His purpose and
work being found out, he was seized on the
fourteenth of February, 1553. He openly
confessed the Scriptural truth which his
books contained. He was now ordered to
tell who had bought books from him.
Refusing to do this, his limbs were almost
torn from his body. But he continued to
acknowledge his adherence to Protestant-
ism, and obstinately refused to make
known the names of the Christians who
had bought his books. He was sentenced
to death, and remained true to all his
pledges to the last.— The Youth's Instructor.
How They Work
CONDITIONS are far different today. We
may scatter literature freely, with no one
to disturb or molest. A tract may seem a
little this g to give away, but each tract
is like an arrow; the mark toward-which
it flies is the heart of the reader. Will it
strike? Will it wound vita ly? God
knows. If every good tract could relate
what it experiences as it goes from hand to
hand and from heart to heart, what a history
could it unfold! All arrows do not miss the
mark ; many rebound, and many fall to the
ground after doing grand work. Such, too,
is the case with tracts. If you hand such
a leaflet or two to an unknown person,
he may read it at first perhaps from weari-
ness ; but the arrow has a barb. He may
read it again, and in the end it may be
fixed so firmly that he can no more release
it from his heart. At last it may be so
much read that the tract falls to pieces.
But he who has thus read it may have
become in the meantime a new man in
Christ.
Another person may but carelessly read a
tract, and allow it to lie about him, or even
be thrown away. Then another finds it,
and lo I just as if it had been shot fresh
from the bow, it presses into his heart I
But there is a world of truth in the old
proverb, "Man proposes and God disposes ; "
for while man aims the tract at the first
one he meets, God may aim it at another
person, and that the right one, — The
Youth's Instructor.
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The Influence of a Tract
ON the desk where I am writing there
rests one of our little Sabbath tracts, now
almost yellow with age. Some twenty
years have passed since it was found on a
muddy street corner in a city. It has done
noble service as a "silent messenger."
What influences have grown out of its
faithful witnessing only ei entity will reveAl. paratively easy to enter into conversation
The one who picked up this " bright
jewel" from the mud had been a mission-
ary in far-away India, but as she often
remarked, "I was sent to America to re-
ceive the greater light." Until she fell
asleep in Jesus, this sister gave herself
untiringly to the circulation ( f the "speak-
ing leaves," such as had spoken so effec-
tively to her own heart. Her home was a .fields. They are vehicles of truth, teachers
real publishing house. I know of two
sisters who were led into the truth by this
same little tract. Out in China another
sister is telling the message of hope that
came to her through this little messenger
that was lifted so long ago from the muddy
street in that city. Who can measure the
influence of one little tract ?
A woman sat waiting on a railway
station. Noticing a literature rack on the
wall, she took a tract from it, and read to
pass away the time. She learned from her
reading that the New Testament taught
that the seventh day, commonly called
Saturday, is the true Sabbath. She was
not a Christian at the time, but resolved
that if she ever became one, she would
observe God's Sabbath.
About three years later a sorrow came
into her home, and as a result she gave
her heart to the Lord. She began to keep
the Sabbath, and has kept it ever since.
Not long after she united with the church,
no less than seven of her relatives joined
her in the message. What possibilities are
wrapped up in a single tract I
The plans of a Baptist evangelist and his
wife were suddenly changed because of a
tract. They had been transferred from one
town to another, and were beginning a
series of meetings, when one day a
tract was handed to the evangelist. He
read it, and his wife read it, and its mes-
sage carried conviction. They recognised
that it was Seventh-day Adventist 'litera-
ture, and succeeded after' some search, in
locating the elder of our church at that
place. The evangelist's wife showed the
elder the tract, and said, " We have read
this tract carefully five times, and com-
pared it with the Scripture, and it seems
to be the truth." That evening they began
a study of the truth, and this continued
for several weeks, resulting in their accept- suitable tracts to all who will take them.
ing the entire message.
The ministry of tract circulation belongs
in the forefront of the societies' activities.
It is being honoured and blessed of God
today as in the years gone by. Every-
where, people are reading themselves into
the truth. What we need is an ever-in-
creasing army of tract distributors. It is
safe to say that the printed page is the
greatest means of reaching the majority
of the people with the message, and every
member of the Missionary Volunteer sdciety
can have a splendid time assisting in its
circulation. ERNEST LLOYD.
The Advantages of Tract
Distribution
1. IT affords work for our youth. There
is no simpler method with which young
people may begin to engage in Christian
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service. Before the young Christian finds
himself prepared for any other method of
giving public testimony, he will find in
this an outlet for his energies. God has
used our youthful Pocket Leaguers to the
saving of many souls in this way.
2. It may be used to open the way for
personal work. After one has given a tract
or mailed it with a letter, it becomes com-
on spiritual things.
3. " Tracts can go every where. They
know no fear. They never tire. They
require no public room to tell their story in.
They can tell it in the office or the shop,
the parlour or the kitchen, in the railway
train or in the motor car, on the broad
highway or on the footpath through the
of all classes, benefactors of all saints."
Methods of Tract Distribution
" 1 HE silent mes-engers of truth should
be scattered like the leaves of autumn."—
" Gospel Workers," page 333.
As the leaves fall in the autumn and
scatter in all directions, it is impossible to
keep them under control. So the Lord
evidently wishes it to be with our tracts,
that our people shall scatter them so widely
and in such large quantities that they shall
be beyond the control of the enemy.
There are many ways in which this may be
done:
1. Keep a few tracts on live questions in
a pocket or hand bag. When you talk with
a friend or chance acquaintance about some
of the world problems, just hand him a
tract on the subject discussed, or closely
akin to it. Your conversation will have
inclined him to read it.
2. Leave tracts on the seats in trains
and trains, on the reading-room tables in
public libraries, in waiting-rooms, and in
every place where people may pick them up
and read them. Do not leave so many at
one time that they will be a nuisance, but
place a few judiciously.
3. Reading racks may be placed in public
places, and kept filled with a good assort-
ment of tracts. This work should be at-
tended to regularly and systematically. It
has proved effective in the past in saving
souls, and how many thousands have been
warned by this means only the future will
reveal.
4. Give tracts to the tradesmen who call
at the door. Visit hospitals and other
institutions, and in a kindly way hand
Left on the seats of motor cars and waggons,
they may be carried to homes we can never
reach, and be read with an interest that
will result in good.
5. Let us be courteous. Those to whom
we offer tracts will read us, even if the
tract is cast away. Let us be patient, and
remember that we are proclaiming the good
news just as surely as if we were standing
in the pulpit. Let us be prayerful. Let
us be confident of blessing. It is the living
seed that is being scattered, and our work
is not in vain.
6. Use tact in the selection and giving of
your tracts. Tracts on the second coming
of Christ, the unsettled condition of world
affairs, and similar topics, are not likely to
arouse prejudice. Use plenty of good
practical tracts on Christian living and
Bible study.
The ministry of tract circulation deserves
the best that we can put into it. "Blessed
are ye that sow beside all waters." "I
the morning soW thy seed, and in the
evening withhold not thine hand : for thou
knowest not whether shall prosper, either
this or that, or whether they be th shall be
alike good." ERNEST LLOYD.
Missionary Volunteer Programme
Second Week
THE APOSTLE TO THE
CHUN CHOS
Opening Exercises.
"The Apostle to the Chunchos."
"Travelling in High Altitudes."
"Providential Opening Among the
Chunchos."
" Winning Out."
"The Mountain of Salt."
Closing Exercises.
The Apostle to the Chunchos
The following report, and others
to be given in this programme, were
written by Pastor M. E. Kern, the
secretary of our world-wide Young
People's Department. Many will
remember Pastor Kern's visit to
Australia and New Zealand, and
will be glad to hear from him again.
SOUTH America is a land of ct ntrasts, a
land of superlatives. The traveller finds
much of interest in this great continent
where the old and the new hold sway
together. But it is not of her wonderful
scenery, her picturesque cities, Or the un-
familiar customs of her people that I wish
to tell. More impressive than all these was
the marvellous miracle of God's grace
which I saw being wrought in the lives of
het aborigitial races in the high tablelands
of Bolivia and Peru, and their even more
remote brothers hidden away in the dense
forests on the eastern slopes of the great
Andes Mountains beyond the outposts of
Pastor F. A. Stahl is the apostle whom
God has used to bring about this great
change. The story of his medical mission-
ary work among the Aymara, and Quichua
Indians in the Lake Titicaca reg on is
familiar to most of tis. I saw hundreds of
these poor downtrodden aborigines who
formerly lived in filth, steeped in supersti-
tion, stupell, d by the coca habit, and whose
chief pastimes were diunken feasts,—I saw
them saved from all this, not because some
one had paid them to reform, or made it
easy—for nearly all of these five thousand
adherents of the Seventh-day Adventist
mission have suffered bitter persecution—
but because they have learned to know and
love Jesus Christ.
Pastor Stahl travelled on horseback and
afoot over the bleak mountains among
these people, slept in the filthy Indian mud
huts, shared their meagre-fare, doctored
their sick, and acted the part of a father
and protector to them, often at the risk of
his own life. But after years of such
strenuous service in the h gh altitude of the
Andes—Lake Titicaca is two and a half
miles above sea level—his health failed.
But he pleaded with his Mission Board
not to send him home to America. " Let
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me go to the Chuncho country on the lower
eastern slopes of the Andes," he begged.
" There I can live in a lower altitude and
Mill work for these Indians." His wish
was granted.
Travelling in High Altitudes
IT was in his company, accompanied by
of his Chuncho trophies of grace, that
wade the trip from the seaport to the
Perene mission, which he established about
three years ago on the Perene River, one of
the headwaters of the Amazon.
We started about seven in the morning,
and our train went up and up, switching
back no less than twenty-five times to gain
a new g. i p on that steep ascent. At 2 p.m.
we came to the tunnel which is 15,694 feet
above the sea. Two more hours, and we
reached the end of our journey by rail, and
we,e hurried into a waiting motor car, that
we might make part of our long motor trip
that night.
The following day we traversed one of the
most marvellous mountain roads to be
found anywhere, I believe. Long ago it
was a burro track used for the transporta-
tion of coffee to the coast, but now it has
been widened to admit small motor trucks.
It is a " one-way road," the cars being
allowed to go down on Monday, back on
Tuesday, and so on during the week. It
was not very reassuring as we swung around
those sharp curves, driven by a Chinese
chauffeur, to be shown where a little while
before a motor car had gone over the
precipice, most of the occupants being
killed on the rocks below. And the cross-
ing of those suspension bridges ! It is an
experience never to be forgotten.
In the seventy-five miles by motor we
dropped from the bleak altitudes of frost
and meagre vegetation to a country where
coffee, papayas, bananas, oranges, and other
tropical fruits grow in abundance.
Then began the last lap of our journey.
This was by horseback, the trail still
following the surging, tumbling waters of
the river hastening on to join other streams
which drain these great mountain ranges,
and form the mighty Amazon. At this
little town I saw the first fruits of the
Perene mission, a Chuncho boy who had
walked those thirty-seven miles to meet
and greet his teacher.
As we rode along we met continual
evidences of the high esteem in which
Pastor Stahl is held by the Peruvian people
with whom he has become acquainted in
his travels back and forth from the sea
coast to his mi,sion. At one place is a
little Peruvian church, largely the result of
his endeavour. The two Indians whom the
missionary had taken with him on this trip
to give them a glimpse of the great world
outside, walked with those who had brought
the animals for us white men to ride. We
all met at a Peruvian home, where we spent
the night. This family, by the way, is
another by-produ. t of the Chuncho mission.
M. E. K.
Providential Opening Among
the Chunchos
AS we jogged along over the mountain
road, overhung with towering peaks arid
dense tropical vegetation, usually going
single file, I heard something of the story
of the mission.
A large section of the country into which
we were now coming had been leased by
the government several years ago, to a
foreign corporation, which had established
large coffee plantations. After careful
investigation of the possibilities Of mission-
ary work among the savage tribes that
inhabit the forests here and farther
" inside," a sub-lease of a small piece of
laud twelve miles beyond the last planta-
tion, was obtained. With the help of
natives, a road was cut twelve miles into
the densest forest I have ever seen ; and in
a little open space, a comparatively health-
ful place not far from the river, Pastor
Stahl established his mission. The people
among whom he purposed to work were
indeed savages, many of them having never
before seen a white man.
"No, it was not easy to begin," he told
me, as we visited. " We lived in a house
much like the natives, with no conveni-
ences at all. But worse than that, no one
came for help. One Sabbath morning,
accompanied only by Rufino, my native
teacher who came with me from Puno, I
went into the forest and spent the entire
day in fasting and prayer that God would
open the door of service to these benighted
people. The next day a Chuncho father
brought his dying baby. At first I was
vexed, for I knew that I could do nothing,
and my imagination pictured what might
happen to us and the mission if the baby
died on our hands. Then my faith grasped
the idea that this was an answer to our
prayers; and I told the father of the im-
possibility of human help, but explained
that God, who made us, could heal his
child. Then we prayed. In a few days
the child was well."
The beginning was small, but God's
work must grow, and the same Chunchos
who some years ago killed twenty-five
priests sent among them, are now opening
their hearts to the gospel and learning to
love their benefactor. M. E. K.
Winning Out
DIFFICULTIES have been met, but every
one so far has yielded to the weapon of
prayer. I was very much interested in the
conversation as we sat around in a circle
between the bamboo house and the open
cook shed that night in the home of the
Peruvian friend of Pastor Stahl. One of
the " trophies " before mentioned is a
Chuncho woman, Manuela. With her
brother she came to the mission from the
jungle, fleeing from murderers who had
killed her husband and her brother's family.
Years before she had been a servant in a
Peruvian home, and so knows Spanish.
She soon accepted Christ, and has become
the cook for the mission. She is a most
valued helper. Knowing Spanish and the
languages of the two Indian tribes nearest
the station, she is eyes and ears for the
missionary. She met many Indians in her
walk that afternoon, and heard the news of
happenings since she had been away.
" Yes, it is true," she said seriously, " that
one of the chiefs has turned against us.
He is telling the Indians secretly that they
should kill you."
Pastor Stahl's face was troubled a bit.
"I wish we could see him," he said.
As we journeyed on the next day, my
host told me something of his needs. "One
thing we need very much," he said, " is
sheet iron roofs for our buildings. The
Chunchos' method of attack is to shoot
firebrands into the thatch roofs and kill
their victims by the light of the burning
buildings."
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Later in the day we met two white men
connected with the coffee plantations, who
came out especially to meet the missionary
returning from his visit to the coast. Then
at the foot of San Juan Hill a crowd of
Chunchos met us. They had brought pine-
apples and bananas to refresh us on our
journey. Among them was Chief Santiago,
a former witch doctor, who has joined him-
self to the mission and has placed his son
in the school. They climbed the steep
ascent with us, from the top of which we
obtained a remarkable view of the mighty
forests covering that rugged country. All
through these forests live the Indians who
have never been subdued by any govern-
ment, nor brought within the pale of
civilisation.
Pastor Stahl questioned the Italian
manager of the last plantation about the
chief who seemed to have turned unfriendly.
" Yes," said the manager, " he is picking in
the last coffee field with some of his men."
" We will try to see him," the missionary
remarked. And we did. He seemed much
impressed with the fact that white men
from afar were visiting the mission, and
listened with evident pride as Pastor Stahl,
after introducing us, told us what a friend
he had been to the mission, and how much
he had helped in cutting the road through
the forest. As we rode away, the mission-
ary said " That was a providential meet-
ing. We shall win him to the Master yet."
M. E. K.
The Mountain of Salt
" WHY did you establish the mission in
this particular place?" I asked, as we rode
through the forest.
"There is a mountain of salt not far
from here," was the answer, " where the
Chunchos come for salt from far inland. I
found that nearly all those who come for
salt come by a track which passes near this
place." It was wise generalship surely,
placing the mission on this jungle highway.
" Then, too, I found this spot to be free
from mosquitos and some other pests that
are common in this country," Pastor Stahl
went on to explain. . .
When we came into the little open space
where the mission is located, and saw the
people gathered there to learn the way of
life, we involuntarily said to ourselves,
" God is in this place 1" When we heard
those murderers, polygamists, and former
witch doctors, many of them with hideously
painted faces, together with their wives and
children, singing gospel songs, led by the
missionary with his guitar, w e said,
" Truly, songs of praise have broken forth
in this wilderness, and are supplanting the
3 ells of savages on fiendish errands bent."
M. E. K.
Missionary Volunteer Programme
Third Week
FATHER
Opening Exercises.
" Father."
"A Real Father."
" Thank You, God, for My Father.'"
" Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother."
Closing Exercises.
Father
" FATHER." No language is perfect
without the word ; no home compete with-
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out the relation ; no nation safe without
its defence. Father, the hope of the race ;
the safeguard of society ; the defence of
all things good and pure.
Father is a synonym for love, courage,
hope, and helpfulness ; for strength, in-
tellect, and victory. Perhaps no word
formed by human tongue means so much to
the world, and none has been so woven
into all its history. From the time when
savage men fashioned crude weapons with
which to protect their homes from others
more savage, to the present, when a father's
wisdom safeguards his loved ones and his
foresight provides against a time of need,
the place he has held has been unique.
In war and conflict, the father has ever
been most daring and courageous ; in
music, art, and letters, he has been
supreme ; in statesmanship and diplomacy,
his prestige has been undisputed ; in mak-
ing the history of the world, he has been
foremost.
Without attempting to usurp the place
that motherhood occupies—a place bought
by love, sacrifice, purity, and gentleness,
and made sacred by devotion and saintli-
ness—an equally exalted glace must be
accorded to fatherhood, which has supplied
the incentive and prompted the ambition
for the epoch-makers of all time.
In prosperity a father's equipoise or
balance shields from many unwise and
harmful things, and in adversity it is a
father's wisdom and courage that saves
from despair and dissolution.
In times of peace, when problems are to
be solved, fathers are chosen for the task ;
and when the clamour of war demands the
service of met), they are first to respond.
When God called Abraham from obscur-
ity to become the head of a people which
He might call His own, He promised that
Abraham should be " the father of many
nations." When the psalmist gave ex-
pression to his conception of God's love for
mankind, he likened it to the pity of a
father.
When Christ attempted to picture the
deepest and most abiding love of human-
kind, He spoke the matchless parable of a
prodigal soil's forgiveness by his father.
And when he gave the world an ideal prayer
which was to be repeated to the end of
time, He began it with the words, " Our
Father."—Orinan C. Emery.
A Real Father
(These words of heartfelt appreciation
were written by the daughter of one of our
missionaries.)
"WHAT are the qualities that constitute a
real father ?" was asked the other day, and
glad I was that I could truthfully answer,
The qualities revealed in my father's
life."
There are two qualities in his life which
I can never separate in my mind, for one
seems so closely interwoven with the other,
—great-heartedness and godliness. It was
my father's bigness of heart, his love, his
sympathy for all,—especially for the young,
—that first appealed to me. I noticed that
where others found fault, where others
blamed and censured, father understodd and
sympathised. He it was who seemed to
appreciate the temptations of the young ;
understood when we were tempted above
what we felt could be borne. Yet, though
his love and greatness of heart kept him
from the common scoldings and censure
indulged in by many parents, never did he
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condone or excuse weaknesses or mistakes.
Instead of criticism, he gave love and help.
Out of the knowledge of his great-heart-
edness grew my appreciation of his Chris-
tianity. First, I knew and saw only his
human love, which to me seemed so limit-
less; but as I worked, talked, and played
with him, I came to realise that the in-
spiration of his humanity was from a
source not found in man. It came from
God. Doubly was this brought home to
me when one evening I went to meet him
at his office.
For some time previous to this I had
been planning to take a step in life which
would mean the loss of my Christian ex-
perience. Father had stated facts, had
urged, and then had left it to me and
my conscience to decide—he never made
decisions for one. But my conscience
seemed hardened, no human word touched
it. This evening as I reached father's
office, I heard a voice, and stopped to listen,
thinking he had company. But it was
father talking with God. Quietly I stood
an eavesdropper to that supplication. It
was for me, a prayer that wisdom might be
granted him to save his child from choosing
the wrong path in life. He pleaded that if
it was sin in his life that had kept him
from winning my decision for right, to
spare him nothing, if only he might be
fitted to save me. •
That prayer converted me ; it saved a
soul. While I could still hear his voice in
prayer, I want into an adjoining room, and
prayed my prayer. It was a mixed prayer,
for it held the sacrifice of a cherished hope,
the thanksgiving of a soul saved, and the
humble gratitude of a girl for such a father.
But father was more than great and
good. He knew hoW to be the best of com-
rades. . . . He was one with you. Your
friends were his friends. Likewise his
friends became yours. . . .
It was father who through word and act
taught me not to look for faults in my
fellow men, but to look for the good ; to see
both sides of a question ; and that one
should grow under adversity. At one time
I became resentful over what I considered
unjust treatment he was receiving. This
he saw, and one day calling me to him, he
said, " Daughter, you are grieving over
what seems to you a trial through which I
am passing. Don't grieve and let bitter-
ness come into your heart because of this
trouble. Always remember this : A person
can grow under adversity ; it can make him
a finer, bigger, stronger man, if he but
learns the lesson for him, and puts his trust
in God, not man."
This was my father, the great-hearted,
the godly, the unselfish, the advocate of the
young, the man who knew how to grow
under adversity, the man who trusted only
in God. It was his example that made
Christianity a re.lity to me. He was a
real father.—" The Church Officers' Ga-
zette."
" Thank You, God, for My
Father "
A Girl's Tribute to Her Father
WHEN I was a little girl I needed you to
lift me over the rough places in the road.
I shall always be a little girl.
I needed your strong arm and your hearty
laugh and your cheery comradeship. They
have helped me all along the way, and they
will always be part of me.
You gave me part of myself even in those
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far babyhood days,—the strong, fighting
part that laughed and kept on. You gave
me strength and courage to put into the
woman I was building day by day.
You have always given me the man's big
outlook on life and men, and have always
helped me to find the natural, common-
sense glory of things.
When little worries swelled into big
shadows, as they are apt to do with little
girls and with little girls grown up, your
ordinary man-way of looking at them, and
your great natural laugh, dwarfed all the
worries right back into their true size.
When I was far away from you, as I
have had to be sometimes in these years, I
used to test my worries by imagining how
they would seem to you, and it helped me
in keeping big things big, and ill keeping
little things from seeming big.
It is a great thing for a woman, all
through the little-girl time, to have grow-
ing up in her, as well as the woman's way,
the broad man's way, too, of looking at
the world. It steadies her, and protects
her, many times.
It's the mother in her and the father in
her that keep a girl sweet and strong when
the fighting days are on her, when the
world is big, and when home is far away.
And it is a very true "Thank you" that
I say to God when I talk about my father
to Him in my prayers.—Mary C. Davies.
"Honour Thy Father and Thy
Mother "
THERE is a touching story told of the
famous Dr. Samuel Johnson which has had
an influence on many a boy who has heard
it. Samuel's father, Michael Johnson, was
a poor bookseller in Lichfield, England.
On market days he used to carry a package
of books to the village of Uttoxeter, and
sell them from a stall in the market place.
One day the bookseller was sick, and asked
his son to go and sell the books in his
place. Samuel, from a silly pride, refused
to obey.
Fifty years afterward, Johnson became
the celebrated author, the compiler of the
English Dictionary, and one of the most
distinguished scholars in England; but he
never forgot his act of unkindness to his
poor hard-toiling father. So when he
visited Uttoxeter, he determined to show
his sorrow and repentance. He went into
the market place at the time of business,
uncovered his head, and stood there for an
hour in the pouring rain, on the very spot
where the bookstall used to stand. " This,"
he says, " was an act of contrition for my
disobedience to my kind father."
The spectacle of the great Dr./Johnson
standing bareheaded in the storm to atone
for the wrong done by him fifty years
before, is a grand and touching one. There
is a representation of it in marble on the
doctor's monument.
Many a man in after-life has felt some-
thing harder and heavier than a storm of
rain beating upon his heart when he re-
membered his acts of unkindness to a good
father or mother now in the grave. . . .
The words, " Honour thy father and thy
mother," mean three things : Always du
what they bid you, always treat them
lovingly, and take care of them when they
are sick and grown old. • I never yet knew
a boy who trampled on the wishes of his
parents who turned out well. God never
blesses a wilful boy.
When George Washington was sixteen
years old, he determined to leave home and

become a raidshiptrian in the Colonial navy.
After he had sent off his trunk, he went to bid
his mother good-bye. She wept so bitterly
because he was going away that he said to
his negro servant: "Bring back my trunk,
I am not going to make my mother suffer
so, by leaving her."
He remained at home to please his
mother. This decision led to his becoming
a surveyor, and afterward a soldier. His
whole glorious career in life turned on that
simple act of trying to make his mother
happy. And happy, too, will be the young
person who never has occasion to shed
bitter tears for any act of unkindness to his
parents. Let us not forget that God has
said, " Honour thy father and thy mother."
—Theodore L. Cuy l e r, in Pittsburgh
Christian Advocate.
Missionary Volunteer Programme
Fourth Week
THE BIG WEEK
Opening Exercised.
" A Bit of Big Week History."
" Wonderful Opportunities for All."
"A Baby Printing Plant."
" A Grateful Acknowledgment."
"How We in Australasia May Help the
Work Abroad."
Closing Exercises.
A Bit of Big Week History
THE Big Week, which has now become
one of the big things in the church's pro-
gramme, like other big things, had its be-
ginning in a small way. It began in North
Dakota, U.S.A., in 1915. Andrew Roedel
was at that time the tract society secretary,
and Jacob J. Jutzy the state agent of the
local conference. Together, they agreed on
the plan of having a Big Week in the sale
of literature throughout the conference. It
was a success, and Pastor C. E. Weaks who
at that time was in charge of the canvassing
work in their union conference, quickly
recognised it as a good thing, and promoted
it throughout that union conference.
The first mention we can find of it in
print is in our church paper, the Northern
Union Reaper of July 20, 1915, in an article
by Brother Andrew Roedel. Speaking of
their goal of £3,000 sales for the year, he
states that they were counting on the Big
Week to help them reach it. In the paper
a week later, in speaking of what had been
accomplished by the Big Week, he says :
" We will only say that the record made
during the Big Week in North Dakota
passes every previous record of our confer-
ence of which we have any knowledge.
Some of our workers are not content with
one Big Week, but are determined to keep
up the record. The tajkataales for the one
week ending July 16, were £394."
The next year the plan spread into other
union conferences. In 1917 we could
hardly believe our eyes when we read that
a brother worked eighty hours and sold
£170 worth of literature in one week.
The following year the same brother during
Big Week sold literature valued at £208.
The Big Week idea had by this time been
adopted ay practically all the union confer-
ences in North America, but each union
was left to decide upon its own date, until
in 1919 a recommendation was passed that
the week beginning July 13 be the time for
a united Big Week in every conference in
the Pacific Press territory, and all our
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church members were invited to join in this
effort.
The idea had become a reality, not only
in the United States, but in other countries.
So much had it spread that the Publishing
Department secretaries considered it of
sufficient importance to bring the question
of a world-wide Big Week before the Gen-
eral Conference Council for consideration.
At the Autumn Council of the General
Conference of 1920, a recommendation was
passed in favour of a world-wide Big Week,
making it a part of the Publishing Exten-
sion plan.—Selected.
Wonderful Opportunities
for All
THE time for the Big Week effort will
soon be here. The great benefits to our
foreign mission fields coming from the Big
Week effort have become well known to our
people. The achievement made in the es-
tablishment and strengthening of publish-
ing houses in the foreign fields through the
Publishing Extension Fund, of which the
Big Week is a part, has proved to be of un-
told blessing and strength to the fields
which have been benefited thereby. From
year to year the interest, enthusiasm, and
co-operation of our people throughout the
field have brought success to this under-
taking. It has grown to be an established
feature of our foreign mission endeavour.
But this year it takes on new importance,
for the circle of its benefits has been greatly
broadened. By action of the General Con-
ference Autumn Council held last year, it
was made a threefold plan, helping not only
to establish and equip publishing houses in
other lands, but also to aid the educational
and the medical work in needy fields. We
believe that the enlarging of the plan, to
bring help to the struggling educational and
medical work in our foreign fields, will
appeal very strongly to our people in the
homeland, and will enlist with renewed en-
thusiasm, not only the workers directly
connected with these three branches of en-
deavour, but every member of every church.
Naturally, all our church schools and
colleges will be interested to make Big
Week count for all possible ; for in this way
they will be directly lending aid to some
struggling school in a foreign field.
All our sanitariums and treatment-rooms,
as well as our doctors and nurses, m ill be
especially interested, and will gladly do
their part to make the Big Week a wonder-
ful success ; for in so doing they will be
lending direct financial aid to some strug-
gling hospital or treatment-room in a
foreign field.
Of course every publishing house and all
our colporteurs will be just as deeply inter-
ested as they have ever been in the Big
Week effort, for there is to be no diminish-
ing of the interest in the foreign publishing
work. And so it seems to us that in the
enlarging of the Big Week plan we are
greatly srtengthening it and multiplying its
possibilities.
0. MONTGOMERY.
A Baby Printing Plant
DOWN on the Danube River, in Novi
Sad , Jugo-Slavia, in Europe, Brother
Robert Schillinger began several years ago
what he called a branch of the Review and
Herald Publishing Association. It was a
very modest "branch." It consisted of a
little assortment of books, placed in one of
OCTOBER, 1925
the living-rooms of Brother and Sister
Schillinger's rented house.
Five years ago from money raised by the
Big Week effort, we were able to buy this
property, and remodel it into a chapel, a
tract society, mission office, printing office,
and living rooms.
There was no water system on the street,
so Brother Schillinger had a well bored,
installed a motor engine in the base-
ment, and a tank in the attic, and therefore
has a good water supply. Although our
church at Belgrade, two hours' distance
away, which had been held in a rented
building, has been recently closed up by the
government, no objection has thus far
been made to our holding regular meetings
at the Novi Sad property. The fact that
we own the hall and connected buildings,
doubtless gives us favour with the authori-
ties, and so we are able to carry forward our
work.
But now about that " baby printing
plant." I took a careful inventory of the
tiny equipment in the office where they are
printing church papers in two languages,
also Sabbath school lesson pamphlets in
two languages, all their report forms,
notices, and circular letters, and where
they do all their binding of paper-covered
books and their stitching of their magazines
in the Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian
languages.
I found the first cost of the entire outfit
was less than £100. I wish every person
who has helped supply the £1250 which has
been invested in this combined meeting
hall, publishing house, mission office, and
living-rooms, could see bow carefully
Brother Schillinger has used the money.
H. H. HALL.
A Grateful Acknowledgment
BROTHER C. C. Crisler, secretary of the
Far Eastern Division of our work, writes
gratefully of the help that they will receive
in China and the islands of Malaysia and
other places in his field, as a result of the
money raised in the Big Week effort in
America last year.
The fund to which this money goes is
now called the Missions Publishing Fund.
Brother Crisler tells us that the distribution
of the Missions Publishing Fund this year
brings help to all five of the publishing
houses in the Far East. Some receive ad-
ditional funds with which to operate their
growing business. Malaysia receives a
supply of Arabic type with which to print
in the Arabic-Malay language. Still other
publishing houses receive machinery.
In Shanghai [point out on map], where
the Chinese Signs of the Times magazine
is published monthly, one of the problems
facing the management has been how to
print the covers of the magazine in three
colours quicklye nough to fill the orders
promptly.
The Chinese are lovers of colour, and in
order to get their attention and send home
to their minds the saving truths of the
gospel, it has seemed best to continue the
plan of printing the magazine in bright
and attractive covers. At present over
forty thousand people have paid in their
subscriptions for the magazine ; and when
special numbers are prepared on most im-
portant topics, for sale on the streets, sev-
eral additional tens of thousands must be
printed.
The old press that has done all such work
for the last ten years, has been running
night and day, month in and month out.
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Now it is worn, and of slow speed, and al-
together unable to keep up with our ever-
increasing volume of work.
Just at this time of critical need, a gen-
erous lift was given them from the Missions
Publishing Fund, and to this the manage-
ment of the publishing house in Shanghai
has been able to add a substantial sum
saved by economies in operation. With the
money coming from abroad combined with
what they have been able to save, a good
verticle Mieble automatic printing press had
been bought and set up. With this
machine, edition colour work can be
handled with dispatch, and all the subscrib-
ers to our Chinese magazine will be served
promptly.
Brother Crisler adds : " We are deeply
grateful to our brethren and sisters for the
help brought by them to us through their
efforts during Big Week, making possible
not only the purchase of this press, but
many like facilities for handling the ex-
panding business of our mission presses in
Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Manila, and
Singapore." [Point out each of these places
on the map, or tell where they are.]
C: C. CRISLER.
How We in Australasia May
Help the Work Abroad
" DURING Vie summer of 1924," writes
Professor C. W. Irwin (at one time princi-
pal of the Avondale School, Cooranbong),
" it fell to my lot to make an extensive
tour of Europe in the interests of our school
work. While we have established in that
g eat continent eleven training schools, we
have no schools of any kind in such
countries as R o s s i a, Poland, Czecho-
Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, etc. While attend-
ing the union conference meeting in
Poland, it was my privilege to attend a
meeting of two hundred believers who were
delegates from various sections of that
country, which contains approximately
thirty million people. The young people
present manifested a most earnest desire to
obtain a Christian education. A call was
made to see how many would be pleased to
have the privilege of attending a Christian
school to prepare themselves for service in
proclaiming the message. Instantly
twenty-five out of the two hundred arose.
This was an unusual company of intelligent
and earnest youth who had forsaken the
world, and were now anxious to engage in
active work for God. Of course, this group
consisted of only a few of the hundreds of
young men and women in that conference.
In the Land of Huss and Jerome
" Again, in Czecho-Slovakia we found
the same condition. The old land of
Moravia and Bohemia, the land of Huss
and Jerome, is still the home of men and
women who are fired with the motives
which actuated the old Reformers. If we
can have a school in that wonderful land
where strong young men and women may
prepare for service, we may expect a re-
enactment of pre-Reformation days, when
the people were stirred mightily in behalf
of the truth of God.
" Later a resolution was passed in the
European Division Council, authorising
the establishment of schools in these two
countries as quickly as funds could be made
available.
" Then there is thegreat land of Russia,
with no school of aqy grade. As soon as
conditions are favourable for entering that
country, we should be prepared to start
immediately a strong training centre.
MISSIONARY LEADER
" These countries are only samples of
what may be found in all parts of the world,
hence the importance of our gathering
funds liberally during the Big Week effort for
the purpose of establishing and equipping
schools in foreign lands. Apparently there
never has been such an educational awaken-
ing in the world as at present. It is fitting
that such an awakening should precede the
great spiritual revival which is to terminate
the work of God on earth. Each calls for
the other. Now is the time to work. ]f
we do not earnestly take advantage of the
liberty of conscience and the opportunity
for aggressive work which is afforded us in
nearly all the nations of the world today,
we may find that the way will soon close or
be made much more difficult than at
present. God help us to act like true
Christian believers in this hour of need."
Sabbath School
Missionary Exercises
(October 3)
A Special Opportunity
Support of Native Workers
ONE year ago last September our Sabbath
schools throughout Australasia gave their
Thirteenth Sabbath offering for the support
of Fijian native workers. And what a splen-
did offering it was ! We know that many
sacrificed that they might personally, or as
a school, provide the entire support of one
worker for twelve months, and we believe
their prayers have followed these workers
during the past year. Now we are to have
the privilege, by our offering on the next
Thirteenth Sabbath, of supporting them for
another year.
We wish our Sabbath schools could have
had the privilege of hearing the Fijian na-
tive workers render their reports at the re-
cent annual meeting held in Fiji. You
would realise that your prayers have been
answered. Pastor H. C. White, who was
in attendance at this meeting, brings us the
following good word:
"It was inspiring to listen to the reports
from the various districts of Fiji. We were
glad to note that in each instance souls had
been won to Christ. The Lord is using the
native brethren who have had responsibil-
ities placed upon them, and they in torn
carry a heavy burden for the work which
has been entrusted to them."
The total amount our Sabbath schools
gave in their Thirteenth Sabbath offering
in September, 1924, was sufficient to sup-
port the entire staff of thirty-eight native
teachers and evangelists in Fiji for fifteen
months. We have been enabled to increase
our staff of native workers from thirty-eight
to forty-two.
We believe it will be an inspiration to
our Sabbath schools to know that they are
keeping a worker in the field for another
year, or for some definite period of time.
Therefore we give the information regarding
the amount necessary for their support, and
would suggest that our Sabbath schools plan
early as to what they will do. Following
is the list of workers and the salary they
receive:
Native Evangelists
No. of Workers Salary per year
Seven receive £10
Ten 12
Three
Six 18
Six 21
One 24
Four 27
Four 42
One 144
Needed for additional helpers, 50
£963
Let us pray, plan, and prepare for
this special offering on the last Sabbath
of the year, December 26. Shall we nob
make this a Christmas offering to the Lord,
our best Friend, the Giver of every good
gift to us? Let us bring to Him a thank
offering for the mercies of another year, and
at the same time feel that we are having a
very definite part in furthering His work
in the promising field of Fiji. "Inasmuch
as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these My brethren, ye have done it unto
ME."
(October 10)
Our Native Workers of Fiji
BY PASTOR H. C. WHITE
1N the providei ce of God the proclamation
of the third angel's message has met with
response in Fiji in souls reclaimed for God.
Early in the history of the work in that
group of islands, consideration was given
and plans were made for training some of
those who accepted the truth, to become
workers among their own people. From
the very beginning of the plan good results
were obtained. The first teachers trained
for service proved to be a strong nucleus,
to which as the years have rolled by oche:
devoted teachers and evangelical workers
have been added.
Many of these men have laboured very
successfully, with the result that many of
their own race have embraced the precious
message. These native teachers are melt
who stand four-square on the truth. Their
one ambition and desire is to proclaim with
power the message that God has entrusted
In this they have not been dis-
to them.
appointed, for God has in a marked way
blessed their labours.
The missionary spirit finds a large place
in their lives. All of them are prepared to
serve just where God calls. In the re-
cent annual meeting in Fiji, as they listened
to the story of the progress of the world-
wide movement in other mission fields, they
could not refrain from expressing themselves
as to their desires to assist in keeping the
fires of missionary zeal burning, by going to
the regions beyond if necessary. To find a
body of men, who themselves have been
lifted from the pit, carrying in their lives a
burden to help others who have been steeped
in heathenism and sin through the centuries
of time is indeed inspiring.
It is a kindly providence that has or-
dained that the gospel shall be preached to
all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples,
and that, as sane from these nationalities
take hold of this message, they become filled
with the true spirit of service, and in turn
extend the helping hand to sin-sick souls.
This gospel of the kingdom will receive
further impetus as other workers are trained
and deN eloped in the mission lands where
the truth is now being proclaimed. Nati% e
workers from the islands of the sea will
continue to be active agencies under God in
helping to bring to a successful culmination
the greatest message ever committed to men.
May we continue to remember in • prayer
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these native evangelists in Fiji who wend
their way from village to village with the
glad tidings of the coming King. Eternity
will reveal the results of just this kind of
labour, in souls who will stand with the
redeemed throughout the eternal ages.
Already our Sabbath schools have demon-
strated their love for these workers. Your
help given over a year ago has been greatly
appreciated by the men themselves. On the
last Sabbath of this year the privilege is
being extended to all who attend the Sab-
bath schools to once again make an offering
for the support of these workers. In a very
special sense we may again become
workers together with them. Let us sup-
plicate the throne of grace that the help
given them will yield a bountiful harvest of
souls during the year 1926. Pray for the
native evangelists of Fiji.
(October 17)
How They Give in India
BY G. G. LOWRY
UPON recovery from serious illness, or
upon receipt of other special blessings from
God, it is the custom of many of our people
in India to bring a thank offering to the
church. The value of this offering of course
depends upon the ability of the family to
give, and consists of various kinds of fruits,
grains, vegetables, eggs, etc., when money
cannot be given.
I remember one aged brother, Yessudasen
by name, who had been very faithful in this
sort of giving. He never failed to give
something to God when he received bless-
ings from Him. When he came to his final
illness and knew that he would soon pass
away, he determined to follow his custom,
and make his last act that of making a
gift to God. He had been saving up a few
coins for this purpose, and when he felt that
he must soon die, he called me to his house
to receive his last thank offering. With
trembling hands he handed over to me the
little earthen pot containing the money
which he bad saved, and requested us to
pray that he might receive forgiveness of
sins and be prepared for death. Shortly
after this he died and now rests in Jesus,
waiting for the resurrection day. He sleeps,
but his example still speaks to us of devotion
and love to God.
May we not learn a lesson from this dear
old man's example, and, in addition to our
usual gifts, when we receive special bless-
ings from God, show our appreciation by
making appropriate gifts to Him who is the
Author and Giver of every good and perfect
gift?
Bangalore, India.
(October 31)
A Priest from a Heathen Temple
Accepts the Message
BY PASTOR FRANK H. LOASBY
HE came to us about one year ago, in
company with two other Sikhs [pronounced
Seeks] who for several years had been
impressed that they must seek the true
light in some place other than the sacred
books of the Sikhs, a powerful Hindu sect.
They had been to me many times, and we
had talked over the points of Christianity
and compared them with the teachings of
their own sacred books. For some time it
did not look as if thesemen would be greatly
affected, but more than one year ago they
came to me again, saying that they had
decided that for their peace of mind they
must embrace the teachings of Christianity.
This meant much for them, and one of
them was badly injured in the head by an
axe in the hands of his brother, who de-
clared that be would knock that kind of
nonsense out of him. Under these circum-
stances they left their village at midnight,
and came to the mission compound.
Of one of these men I wish to speak
particularly. He was a Granthi, or reader
of the sacred books, with the full duties of
a priest in the Sikh temple. From the
beginning he showed a great desire to study
all he could of the Bible. He worked night
and day, and was so anxious to study that
he neglected his food, living for weeks on a
little country molasses. We were obliged
to give him strict orders to attend more to
his food, in order that his health should not
suffer. We also had to warn him against
sitting up until midnight studying by the
light of a tiny lamp. He is making great
progress in his study, and it is no uncom-
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An Invitation to All
YOUR school is offered the privi-
lege of providing the wages of one
of our native Fijian workers for
next year. See the Missionary Ex-
ercise for October 3, containing the
list of workers. The invitation is
extended to isolated members and
others also, to support a worker or
to contribute toward this good work.
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mon thing for him to stand up and recite
the contents of several chapters of the Bible,
much of it verbatim. One Sabbath he
recited five chapters of the Book of Acts,
and showed a most intelligent understand-
ing of the teachings contained therein.
The prophecies of Daniel he has long since
mastered.
When we were preparing for the canvas-
sers' Big Week, I did not ask Bhagwan
Singh to join us, for I thought that being
new to Christianity, he might become dis-
couraged. Before the men went, however,
be came to me and said that he did not
wish to be left out, but that he wished to
share all the hardships that might be en-
tailed in this work.
He took his books and went to a distant
town. He had no money to stay anywhere
at night, so he slept on the verandah of a
government building. It rained that night,
and so fearful was he that his precious books
would be spoile,1 that he wrapped them
about him under his garment. He got wet
almost to the skin, but he kept his books dry.
For some time he, among others, has
been studying in my workers' classes. He
has worked very hard. Today was the
written examination, and at the close it
was found that he stood second among the
twelve workers, most of whom had been
Christians from birth, and workers for from
ten to fifteen years.
We thank God for this man. He now
wishes to be baptised. He will be the
first Sikh in all the history of Seventh-day
Adventist mission work in India to be bap-
tised. May our people pray for him and
the good work he may do.
OCTOBER, 1925
(October 24)
One Way of Increasing Our
Sabbath School Membership
BY PASTOR A. W. CORMACK
A MAN and his wife came to Sabbath
school one Sabbath morning in South India.
The Indian in charge of the Sabbath school
observing that they were strangers, con-
cluded that they were members from some
other Sabbath school. He found upon en-
quiry, however, that they had never before
attended a Seventh-day Adventist meeting.
Moreover, while they were evidently in-
formed concerning the Sabbath question,
and had been keeping the Sabbath, they bad
never met a Seventh-day Adventist until
that morning ; nor bad they read any of
our literature.
How, then, had the message come to
them ? A villager had been on a visit to a
distant city and was returning to his home.
On the way he overtook two fellow- travellers.
Like Cleopas and his companion on the w iy
to Emmaus, they were engaged in earnest
conversation, and as they journeyed to-
gether, this man listened with interest to
what they were saying. The two were Ad-
ventist Indian workers, and they were talk-
ing about the message.
In due course they came to the parting of
the ways and the man continued his jouctiey
alone. After reaching his village, he told
his neighbours of the conversation to which
he bad listened, and was able to explain to
his hearers why Seventh-day Adventists
keep the seventh day of the week as the Sab-
bath. Though he did not, himself, obey the
message, he was the means of communicat-
ing it to others and the brother and his
wife above referred to accepted the call to
walk in the light, and sought out a company
of Sabbath-keepers with whom to fellowship.
Thus souls were garnered in as a result of
what an unbeliever heard of a conversation
between two brethren who talked of the
message as they " walked by the way."
If the love of the truth is in the heart, it
will work out to the salvation of others
through the conversation; for "out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
The science of salvation will be the theme
upon which the hosts of the redeemed and
unfallen beings will delight to dci ell through-
out eternity. Surely, then, it should be the
all-absorbing subject of conversation for
Christians in this life. When the Saviour
walked with the two disciples on the way to
Emmaus, He asked them the question,
" What manner of communications are these
that ye have one to another as ye walk ? "
Luke 24 : 17. He is asking us the same
question today, but it might be expressed
in these words: "What are you talking
about? " " How do you visit? " As work-
ers in the cause and as church members, what
is our theme of conversation as we walk ?
and at other times? [Do we talk during the
week of the beautiful lessons learned in the
Sabbath school? If we did, would not
others wish to attend the school also? One
way of gaining new Sabbath school mem-
bers is to tell of the blessings we ourselves
receive through the study of these good
Sabbath school lessons.]
In Deut. 6 : 6,7, we read this command
of the Lord, "These words which I command
thee . . . shall be in thine heart : . . . and
thou shalt talk of them, when thou sit test in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the
way." Let us do it.
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