Watchman Magazine
For Humanity’s Sake
Seventh-day Adventists carry on mission work in 353 countries and islands; in 578 languages, oral and written ; and have in all 25,185 evangelists, doctors, nurses, colporteurs, and teachers. They maintain 136 sanitariums, hospitals, dispensaries, and treatment rooms; 2,565 schools, enrolling 108,200 students; and 69 publishing houses, issuing gospel and health literature in 171 languages.
Ingathering
Annual
PITY the LEPER
By E. D. Dick
Secretary of the General Conference
Pitiable beyond description is the plight of the leper. Overtaken by this dread disease—once thought incurable— the face becomes covered with leathery welts and palsied with pain. Suppurative sores appear over the body and the digits of the hands and feet, the ears and sometimes the nose waste away—in verity a living death.
In this condition the leper becomes an outcast, despised and rejected by his fellows, and even his loved ones turn from him. He wanders from village to village in search of comfort and food. “Unclean! Unclean!” greets him at every approach.
Modern medical research and benevolent giving have brought healing and hope to thousands of these afflicted ones. The Seventh-day Adventist Mission Board operates leper colonies in a number of lands, where the victims of this cruel disease find comfort and healing through the faithful ministry of our medical missionaries. In Africa alone, these centers of mercy are found in Kenya, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Belgian Congo, and Angola. These institutions enjoy the high esteem of the governments in whose borders they are located, and have been assisted
material^ in their establishment and maintenance. The British Empire Leper Relief Association, London, and the American Mission to Lepers, Inc., New York, have also made liberal grants toward the support of this work. Thousands of friends interested in this mission of mercy have generously contributed. We acknowledge with grateful thanks these gifts which have made possible this good work.
Success has attended the efforts of our heroic doctors and nurses as they have ministered to these needy ones. Each year a goodly number of these lepers are discharged cured, and rejoicing in the blessings of renewed health and hope.
The very success of this work brings embarrassment. Hundreds of lepers, some from great distances, learning of the blessings received by some fellow leper, are turning to us to deliver them from their misery, until our capacity for caring for them is overtaxed.
We earnestly solicit the continued support of this good work that many others yet “without the camp” may receive spiritual and physical healing, so willingly provided by the sacrificial service of our brave doctors and nurses.
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Left oval:
Mwami Leper Hospital,Northeast Rhodesia, Africa.
Right oval:
Songa Mission Dispensary, Kamina, Belgian Congo, Africa.
Center:
Giving the injection to a leper
Batient at Malamulo Leper [ospital, Nyasaland, Africa. The attendant, himself a healed leper, has been trained at the hospital to do much of the detail work for his people.
The CHRISTIAN Medical WORKER
By M. A. Hollister
Associate Secretary, General Conference Medical Department
The Christian medical worker is welcomed everywhere. This sick old world is groaning for freedom from its pain. In every country on the globe there are ■thousands who are too poor to secure medical attention for themselves, even though it is available; and in those sections where there is no hospital, and perhaps no doctor, within hundreds of miles, the Christian medical worker is thrice welcome.
Seventh-day Adventists from the beginning of their history have endeavored to establish health centers, such as sanitariums, hospitals, clinics, and treatment rooms, in order to provide for suffering mankind a haven of refuge for relief from their afflictions. Our endeavors to accomplish this task have resulted in the founding of training schools and an A-grade medical college from which are graduated physicians, nurses, and dietitians—all well-trained for this humanitarian purpose. Some of these settle in the homeland to serve their fellow men, but many go to lands afar to minister to those who otherwise might have no medical care. And the need is appalling.
From India comes a story common in
that country as to the cause of disease. A man suffering with gangrene of the foot (the result of diabetes) had to have his leg amputated by the surgeon. When asked what caused his affliction, he said he was suffering from the sins of his ancestors.
Many have a fatalistic belief that whatever comes had to come, and hence make no effort to avoid disease. Some call it “karma”; others, “kismet” — and those who speak English call it “fate.” The true medical missionary teaches them the cause and the prevention of disease, and gradually this sad fatalism becomes powerless to influence their lives.
Victims of Ignorance
Rich and poor alike in some countries are victims of their own ignorance. This is vividly illustrated in the case of a rich Mongolian mother whose child lay dying of smallpox. With a none-too-clean cloth she wiped the child’s face again and again and the next moment used it to wipe her own perspiring countenance. Again, these people have the custom of wearing the clothes of the dead no matter what the disease was that caused the death of their
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Main building, White Memorial Hospital, bos Angeles, California.
loved ones. What wonder that epidemics are rampant where there is no thought of sanitation and no effort to isolate those suffering from contagious ailments!
Work for Lepers
Statistics for 1935 show that Seventh-day Adventist physicians and their assistants were then treating 449 lepers in Africa, and a number in China. At the Malamulo Mission in Nyasaland, Africa, alone, 316 were under treatment. One of our men from the headquarters on a trip to Africa witnessed the joyful occasion when twenty-two healed lepers were given their discharge papers. Let him tell the story in his own words:
“ Standing before the leper hospital at Malamulo was a group of twenty-two healed lepers who were about to receive their discharge papers. The crowd of more than 200 of these afflicted people still under treatment surrounded us on all sides. The doctor was giving the final check-up before the presentation of the important papers. Out of the crowd stepped an intelligent, well-educated man who to the ordinary layman showed no signs of infection. He came to the doctor and said, ‘Doctor, I have been here five
years. May I go home now, too?’ Th doctor talked to him in his native tongue, and then explained to us that this man had come to the hospital five years before, he had been under constant treatment, and was almost ready for discharge; but he had explained to him that his only course, in order not to endanger his own family, was to remain another three months before receiving his discharge papers. A disappointed look came over the man’s face, for although the
Patients gathered at the Karmatar Dispensary, Karmatar, India.
hospital was within walking distance of his home village, he had been unable to go back to his people during the entire period. However, after the doctor’s explanation he turned patiently back again to enter the ranks of the unclean. How fortunate it is that men like this, wh
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Hundreds of sick arc treated at the Shiloh Mission Dispensary, North Transvaal, South Africa
under the old conditions were condemned to a living death, may now find healing under the treatment of competent physicians.”
At a smaller mission in the Belgian Congo, Dr. Elton Morel has been doing remarkably well in winning the confidence and trust of the people. Fifty-two lepers were treated there during 1935, and the doctor reported that they had patients coming to them from a radius of 300 miles. Not only does he treat leper patients, but he has patients with all manner of diseases. A total of 5,860 called for aid at his dispensary in one year. This is indeed a wonderful record, especially when we consider the suspicions of the natives when the mission was first established.
The work of Seventh-day Adventists for suffering humanity is not confined to faraway countries. In North America 100,000 are treated annually at one clinic alone— the Los Angeles White Memorial Hospital
Tuberculosis Camp, one mile from the Canton Hospital, China, where mnny receive practical medical relief.
Clinic connected with our Medical College. In other parts of the nation our institutional clinics treat many patients every year. No race, color, creed, or religion is refused. The golden rule prevails.
Relief for the Cameroons
By E. D. Dick
On the sun-parched plains of Northern Cameroons, just south of Lake Chad, is located Dogba Mission. Medical work serving the multitudes on the plains to the north and the thousands of hill people to the south has been an activity of the mission since its establishment in 1931. Working in the shade of a tree or on the verandah, the nurses gave 25,000 treatments in a two-year period. But for lack of medicines and bandages, the number might easily have been 200,000.
To this humble dispensary these needy people come from great distances, riding on horses, donkeys, or cattle. Others hobble in on crude stick crutches, while still others are carried in by their friends.
Scarcely can we in favored lands, living in comparative security, realize the horror of one who is overtaken by some dread disease when no medical aid is within reach. Nor can we measure the gratitude of these people who, through the help of the medical missionary, are delivered from their torture of living death and are restored to health and strength.
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The new sanitarium building at Canton, China.
LIGHT HOUSES in the HILL COUNTRY of the SOUTH
By J. K. Jones
President, Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
A more honest-hearted, sociable, and  hospitable people cannot be found anywhere than the sturdy folk who live in the hill country of the southeastern part of the United States. There are millions of them living where unfavorable conditions make it difficult to earn a livelihood, where little is known of educational advantages.
Seventh-day Adventists many years ago opened schools and medical work among these people, and we now have eighteen such institutions in Alabama, Mississippi, Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, receiving aid from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
These educational and medical institutions started small, being founded by men and women who moved out into the hills, who lived among the people, and who sacrificed everything they had to promote a worthy cause. In these schools and
sanitariums the boys and girls of the Southern hill country are given opportunity to work to pay for their education. In fact they are not only taught from textbooks, but they are taught to work the soil, to make useful articles, to erect modest homes, to care for live stock, to do blacksmithing, plumbing, engineering, and automobile repairing. They are trained to be nurses, office workers, cooks, seamstresses, and to be efficient and trustworthy in many other occupations.
The little sanitariums, staffed by competent doctors and nurses, are veritable lighthouses of hope and cheer to thousands who otherwise would have no medical care.
Yes, these institutions, founded upon vision and sacrifice, are doing a wonderful work of education and charity. Such noble enterprises are worthy of support by those of us who are more favorably situated.
Sanitarium and Hospital, main building, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. This institution, the only hospital in five counties, exemplifies the work of Seventh-day Adventists in rural communities. Much of the construction of this new building was done by men who had received free medical care.
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One corner of the pressroom at the International Branch of the Pacific Press Publishing Association, Brookfield, Illinois, where literature is printed in tuny languages of the immigrants to A merica, among which are Bohemian, Danish-INorwe-gian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, and Yiddish.
Open Doors Among the Foreigners in America
By Louis Halswick
Associate Secretary, Bureau of Home Missions, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The latest official census reveals the startling fact that within the borders of the United States and Canada there are fully fifteen million foreign-born people, who, with their children of the first generation, number approximately forty million,
Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church, with a seating capacity of 400, Los Angeles, California.
most of whom speak a foreign tongue. These millions who have come to make their homes in our midst represent a wonderful opportunity for service.
Seventhnlay Adventists feel a deep sense of responsibility for the uplift of Jiese people. The General Conference, through the Bureau of Home Missions, with headquarters at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., is promoting this interesting and needy work. Evangelists
and Bible workers are now laboring among the following national groups: Bohemian, Croatian, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Rumanian, French, Greek, Icelandic, Finnish, Ukrainian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Spanish, Jewish, Japanese, Chinese, and Indian. In our schools many of them are helped to equip themselves better for the problems of life.
Several language departments are now operated in connection with our academies and colleges, where young men and women are trained to work for their own nationals. These trained foreign workers are a strong factor in molding the attitudes and sentiments of these peoples who have come from other lands to make their home in the United States or Canada, and in helping them to become well-informed, law-abiding, Christian citizens. Religious literature in a large number of these various languages is printed at Brookfield, Illinois, and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, and many of these people receive and read it eagerly. House-to-house visits, community classes, and children’s classes are other methods employed in this uplift work.
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World headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, located at Tako-ma Park, Washington, D. C.
OUR WORLD BUDGET
By W. E. Nelson
Treasurer, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Seventh-day Adventists believe that it is their duty to heed the command of Jesus to go and teach all nations and to carry the gospel of salvation unto the uttermost parts of the earth. In the fulfillment of this duty they have pressed their work into three hundred fifty-three countries, islands, and island groups, and their evangelical and institutional laborers are making use of not less than five hundred seventy-eight languages and dialects. They believe that in teaching and preaching the gospel it is necessary to work for the mental, moral, and physical well-being of men and women as well as the spiritual, and so in nearly every part of the world where Adventists are found they have established schools, medical institutions, and publishing houses.
In the schools the native people are trained to go as teachers into unenlightened areas where they establish other schools and spread the blessings of civilization and Christianity. The medical institutions care for the physical needs of the people,
and nurses are trained to teach the laws of sanitation and health as well as to care for the sick. These sanitariums and dispensaries do a great deal of charity work, the estimated value of which in 1936 was $326,000. The publishing houses are publishing gospel and health literature in more than 170 languages and dialects.
It is obvious that adequate support must be provided in order to carry on such a ivorld-wide work. In addition to the earned income of our sanitariums, schools, and publishing houses, it has been necessary to receive contributions for this world program to the amount of more than ten million dollars a year. The larger part of this sum is provided by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. More than half of it is derived from the tithe, for Seventh-day Adventists the world over, whether in North America, India, China, Africa, or the islands of the seas, make it a practice to contribute one tenth of their income for the support of gospel work. Nor do they consider that they have done their full
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duty when they have paid their tithe; they believe it to be both a duty and a pleasure to support the work of God by making; freewill offerings. In 1935 these offerings from the Seventh-day Adventist member-, ship in North America alone amounted to "1,689,000.
In addition to the liberality of our own, church members, we find that the needs of suffering humanity, both at home and abroad, require an outlay of funds that is beyond our power to meet without the assistance of our friends and acquaintances, who from year to year have joined us in our endeavor by contributing to the Harvest Ingathering Fund. The money which they have given has accomplished untold good. Because of the diversified character of our work and its world-wide extent, it is possible for our friends to contribute to the work at home or abroad, whichever most appeals to their hearts. Those who wish to give for the gospel or medical work at home should so specify, and their gifts will be used only at home. Those whose hearts go out to mission lands can give to that important work, knowing that they are helping to extend God’s kingdom throughout the world.
We acknowledge with heartfelt gratitude the help that our friends have heretofore given, and we earnestly solicit a continuation of their assistance. In view of
Part of the Narsapur Mission Hospital, Narsapur, West Godavary, South India. In addition to caring for the sick, the hospital trains native young people as nurses.
Shanghai Sanitarium Clinic, Shanghai, China. The clinic is dedicated to the relief of the sick poor of Shanghai and others from the interior of China.
the needs of the world, we trust that this help in 1937 may be even more generous than in the past, and may the blessing of God rest upon every gift and giver.
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VIEWS of Seventh-d
Demonstration of the way Nurse Ferris treats the eyes of the New Hebrides children.
Pisgah Sanitarium and Hospital, near Asheville, North Carolina.
Main station, Nanga-Eboko, Equatorial African Mission, Caineroons, West Africa.
Kata Kagoso, a Solomon Islan from devil worship. His father w Kata Kagoso is now an ordained a representative to the 1936 Gen Adventists, after which he touret large crowds both in per? - and good English. Metropoi n pa] work and message. He told a w Christian work among the Soloni here with one of their heathen i his left hand, and tli
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(1 Chief, but 22 years removed as converted from cannibalism.
minister of the gospel. He was eral Conference of Seventh-day l the United States, speaking to over f ’ radio. The chief speaks iers ited long stories of his onderful story of the results of on Island people. He is pictured dols, a war club, and a shield in e Bible in his right.
AY ADVENTIST WORK
Children’s Ward, Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.
Music Conservatory, Walla Walla College, College Place. Washington.
Young Men’s Dormitory, Southern California Junior College, ■(((•	Arlington, California.
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“MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU”
By Arthur S. Maxwell, Editor, “Signs of the Times"
Everybody is afraid,” was the striking declaration of a prominent member of the British House of Commons not many months ago. “Everyone is afraid,” he repeated; “everyone is going straight downhill to ruin.”
This is perhaps the greatest fear of our time—the fear of another war; for everybody knows that once its first bugle-call is sounded, carnage and devastation more terrible than any yet experienced in all the sad annals of men will rain from the
The League of Nations Council in session, just before the Ethiopian War, with the Italian chairs empty. These earnest men labored faithfully to preserve the peace, but failed.
There is indeed a widespread belief that we are fast approaching the complete breakdown of civilization. A sickening fear, an awful dread of the ominous clouds fast rolling up from every horizon, fills the hearts of men.
“We are going to commit suicide soon,” says H. G. Wells. “Another war will sweep the world, . . . and will find all nations equipped to annihilate civilization with armaments.”
skies. Suddenly will burst the storm, frightful, terrific, overwhelming!
Yet this is not the only fear. In many lands men are afraid of revolution, of civil war, which can be more ghastly, as Spain’s dread horrors have told us once again, than any strife between rival nations.
The hope, once so widely held, that mankind by its own laudable endeavors would soon lift itself into a new and golden
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age of universal peace and prosperity, has long since faded. In its place has come a sense of utter despair at the fruitlcssness and failure of all such efforts. Conference after conference, convened with the high resolve of remedying the desperate situation, has been abandoned in a medley of disappointing, apologetic speeches. The highroad to this earthly paradise has led only to a waste, howling wilderness. The tranquil lake at which humanity was to slake its age-long thirst has proved but a mirage. All that remains is the dread of approaching disaster.
The Master’s Promise
At such a time how full of rare fragrance and comfort are the words of the Master: “My peace I give unto you.” John 14: 27.
It is a promise designed to eliminate fear from every worried heart. It comes from One who sits upon the throne of eternity, whose everlasting tranquillity is never disturbed by a single anxious thought. It comes from One who knows the end from the beginning, who silently plans for us all, “who doeth all things well,” and who brings slowly but surely to completion His own eternal purpose.
The peace that fills the heart of the Eternal Spirit is offered to us. Dear, troubled reader, so full of fear for the future, so harassed by anxieties, so perplexed for yourself and for your children, Jesus says to you in tones of infinite comfort: “My peace I give unto you.”
It is a peace that cannot be purchased with money, nor obtained by great effort It must be accepted as a gift. All that means, in a word, is possessing and expressing confidence in the Giver. It means trusting God to care for you and make all things work together for your good.
Above all the mutterings of angry nations, all the rumblings of the coming storm, the voice of Jesus, like the song of angels or the chime of silver bells, rings in the ears of all who love Him: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16: 33.
When Jesus first uttered these cheering words, His world seemed black as midnight. Every man’s hand was against Him, and He knew that soon He would be stretched upon the cross to suffer the fearful death of the most degraded criminal. Yet in His heart there was no fear—only a quiet, unwavering confidence in His ultimate victory. He knew that He was on the winning side.
That same sweet restfulness, that amazing peace that passeth all understanding, may be ours also. We have but to anticipate the same final victory that buoyed up the heart of the Saviour.
“For the joy that was set before Him,” we are told, He “endured the cross.”
What joy?—Surely the joy of final triumph over all sin, the joy of reunion with His earthly friends, the joy of seeing the complete restitution of all things in that heavenly home which He would prepare for His children.
With unwavering confidence He saw the day of His glorious return, when, clothed with all the majesty of heaven, He will
Our Lord gave His church the peace that passes understanding.
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bring final deliverance to His redeemed, and will crown all suffering with eternal triumph. That glad day is now near at hand!
It was Christ’s constant thought, of the ultimate achievement of this sublime purpose that enabled Him to meet with equanimity every untoward circumstance of His life.
The Prince of Peace at llis approaching advent will make wars to cease. Those who have accepted llis gift of peace now will then dwell throughout eternity in the home of peace.
Now He says to us, Believe in the same victory and the same rare peace will fill your heart. Trust Me, as your Commander, to bring you safely through every trial, and My triumph I will gladly share with you. Believe in Me, and you shall surely sit with Me on My throne.
With Christ, we are always on the winning side!
This message of peace, which is indeed the very essence of the gospel of Christ, is the one sure solace for troubled hearts
today. It is the message being taken to all mankind by the great missionary movement responsible for publishing this magazine.
In this dark hour, so near the crowning crisis of the ages, we are not to fear men, nor war, nor revolution, nor anything the future may hold. Rather we are to “fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come.” Revelation 14: 7.
If we fear God and give glory to Him by trusting Him wholly and unreservedly with our lives and our all, then indeed will all anxieties be swept from our bosoms, and the peace that flows from the unplumbed springs of Eternity will possess our hearts and minds for evermore.
“My peace I give unto you.” Christ offers you this priceless gift. Will you not take it now?
Training for Business of Living
(Continued from page 15) stage of life. Theodore Roosevelt has said: “ If }rou are going to do anything permanent for the average man, you have to begin before he is a man. The chance of success lies in working with the boy and not the man.”
We have in North America twelve colleges, forty-eight academies, and approximately one thousand elementary schools. More than two thousand Christian teachers are devoting their lives to training the thirty thousand children and youth in these schools. The one outstanding purpose existing in all of these institutions is to prepare the student to take his proper place in society that he may promote all that is good for his fellow men in accordance with the teachings of the Master Teacher.
The young men and young women who have been trained in Seventh-day Adventist educational institutions have scattered into every country of the world, making it their business of life to serve humanity and God. In these days of uncertainty the world has great need for such men and women to stabilize the forces upon which not only true character, true success in life, but also the foundation of Christian civilization, are built.
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Emmanuel Missionary College. Berrien Springs, Michigan, where about 500 young men and women were enrolled during the school year, 1956-1937. Many of these young people earned much of their expenses through the vocations afforded by the school and farm. The college is a home where every one is taught to work, while he is training for service.
TRAINING for the BUSINESS of LIVING
By Harvey A. Morrison
Secretary, General Conference Department of Education
In these days of rapid increase of knowledge, there is a tendency for youth to reach the age of maturity more fully supplied with facts than with the ability to use what they know. It is the purpose of the Seventh-day Adventist school system to give such an education and training to the youth that they may be familiar not only with facts but that they will have the power to use that knowledge. Thus they will become the stabilizing forces in society.
History reveals that the world has had man}'- great leaders, but the one outstand-
A glimpse of the school group at the East Caribbean Training School, Trinidad, West Indies, on graduation day.
ing teacher was the lowly Nazarene, who enunciated the purpose of education and of life upon which all other successful achievements have been built.
There are many phases of education by which these basic principles may be inculcated. Perhaps one outstanding phase is the teaching of youth to bear responsibility. In the Seventh-day Adventist school system this is brought about by the Christian teacher’s motivating those under his care to understand that service to humanity comes before individual desires.
The various industries connected with our institutions teach the students to bear responsibility. While learning the vocations taught, the young person has the experience of taking on responsibility as part-time employee, which tends to promote that same attitude toward everything with which lie is connected. Seventh-day Adventists foster the threefold education of the head, the heart, and the hand.
This training begins in the elementary grades. Special emphasis is laid upon the proper education of the children while they arc* in the plastic and impressionable {(■ontinued on page 1 ff)
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WORDS of COMMENDATION
The kindly manner in which the Christian service of Seventh-day Adventists is regarded by those who observe it in operation in the world field inspires to greater service and begets confidence in the endeavor. Space permits us to print only a limited number of the friendly messages of approval of our work for humanity.
From African Natives
We, the elders and native Christians assembled at the Gitwe (Ruanda, Africa) meeting, want to thank the representatives from the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists because they have come to visit us. We thank them for the messages they have given us and for the courage and faith they have brought to our hearts.
We want.to thank them also for listening to the words of the people who requested schools and teacher-evangelists. Our hearts were troubled for the people who have cried for these schools. Now we are very happy because you leaders are taking this burden on your hearts. We ask you to tell our brothers and sisters in America that we thank them for what they have done to help send the light to us. Please tell them that there are thousands in Gitwe who hope to meet them in heaven.
(Signed) The Elders and Christians of Gitwe, Ruanda, Africa
From a Governor in India
GOVERNOR'S CAMP. UNITEO PROVINCES.
April 9, 1935.
I was very glad to have the opportunity, during my tour of the Hydro-Electric Area, to pay a short visit to the Seventh-Day Adventist Mission High School at Roorkee. An experiment in education is being conducted there which is of great interest. The aim is to combine a sound general education with training in practical manual work. The school specialises, wisely, in agriculture, and I understand that the agricultural section is run on such, practical lines, with the assistance and advice of the Department of Agriculture, that it now pays for itself. The enthusiasm of the staff makes the success of the school. I trust that it will continue to prosper.
Governor,
United Provinces.
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Administration building and grounds of the Brazil Training School at Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America.
Adventists in Sao Paulo
The Seventh-day Adventist nucleus in Sao Paulo [Brazil] is situated on a large tract of land covering four hundred acres. From the height of the school esplanade, where the Adventist activities are concentrated, one enjoys an impressive panorama. Within the rich country scenery rises a lake of peaceful waters. To our right is a forest of eucalyptus trees. Here lives a people who exchanged the excitement of the metropolis for the quietness of the country.
It is a small community of three hundred, but with a power of attraction that is intense and communicative. The colony grows in activity and recommends itself daily in appreciation and gratefulness. Their self-sufficiency in industry forms a fruitful and harmonious whole which insures the Adventist colony good living conditions. Their religious ceremonies, which are surrounded with solemnity, left upon us a deep impression.—Azevedo Galvao, a Brazilian writer, in a special news feature to the A Noite Illustrada (Illustrated Evening), November 21+, 1936.
(This rotogravure weekly of Rio de Janeiro enjoys a circulation of 400,000. The foregoing statement is taken from a full page of facts and pictures on the Brazilian Training College, which appeared in the same issue that heralded the arrival of President Roosevelt in Rio de Janeiro.)
The chief and head men of a village in Northern Nigeria, Africa, plead for a mission station to be established among them.
A traveling dispensary out on the Tibetan grasslands. Seventh-day Adventists have a mission hospital at Tatsienlu, China, on the border of Tibet.
A Word from the Vicereine of India
I feel that the Seventh-day Adventists are to be congratulated upon the successful results of their efforts, which are worthy of every encouragement in that they are directed towards the alleviation of suffering and the general education of thousands of people in this country.
(Signed) Marie Willengdon, Vice-reine of India.
Seventh-day Adventist Hospital Service
From the day the Seventh-day Adventist Mission started operating the hospital at Nuzvid, I have been in close touch with the working of the institution. This hospital has been steadily increasing in popularity, and I think I am right in saying that it has never been as popular as it is now. Through the generosity of The Honorable The Raj a of Bobbili and other donors, it was made possible to put up a splendid operating theater of which any hospital might be proud. It is one of the best equipped hospitals in the district. (Signed) Sree Raja Sobhanadar Apparew, Zemindar of Telaprole.
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The FAITH of Two INDIAN BOYS
By Rosamond D. Ginther
In heathen lands the simple faith of the children is sometimes the means of touching the hearts of their fathers, leading parents in the way to salvation and to faith in Christ. Two touching incidents are related by Missionary Thomas Killo-way, of Bombay, India.
A little boy about twelve years old took sick with guinea worm. As his condition became serious, the father told him to get ready a coconut, some kunku (a yellow powder which t hey use in their worship), and a few other things, and go with him to the temple where they would worship their idol
god and beseech that he would be healed.
But the little boy had heard the gospel story, and he said, “No, father, the idol cannot heal me. We will go to the schoolmaster and worship Jesus, and He will heal me.” So instead of the father’s taking the boy to worship the heathen god, the boy took the father to the missionary’s house and worshiped Jesus the Lord. His simple faith was rewarded, and he was healed.
Another boy, who had been won by the gospel, went to his father one day and asked, “Father, which god do 3rou worship?” The father answered, “I worship
A Cradle Roll class in Burma, organized by Pastor and Mrs. Eric B. Hare. The invitation, “Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not,” given centuries ago, includes children of every nationality.
“Brown and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight.”
the moon, and the idol out in the temple.” “Oh!” said the boy, “but they are not gods. Those are things that God created; and if you worship them, you will be lost.” He then told his father of the God about whom he had learned from the missionary, and pleaded with him to join with him in worshiping the true God. Said he, “Father, I want you to be saved; and for that reason I want you to worship the true God, so that you will be with me.”
The father’s heart was touched by the bo}r’s earnestness and he did not sleep much that night because of his concern over what his son had asked him. The first thing in the morning he went to the schoolmaster, and said, “What is this my boy is telling me? I am much troubled in spirit. I want to know more about the true God.” The father began to study regularly with the missionary that he might know more of the gospel of salvation.
The prophet of old declared: “A little child shall lead them.”
So all over the world wherever we have missionaries, children learn the beautiful story of Jesus, and tell it to others.
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Appreciation
On behalf of our Mission Board we wish to express full appreciation to all contributors to our world-wide enterprise in the last year’s Ingathering effort. All these gifts and much more have been used in carrying forward work in the homeland and in many mission lands. This Ingathering Annual conveys reports that are typical of the work of our organization.
To maintain this ministry for the benefit and uplift of humanity we again throu< this medium and through our regular representatives invite your continued generous support. If after reading this journal and not having given to the solicitor, you wish to contribute an offering to missions, large or small, it will be thankfully received and officially acknowledged if sent to	
Treasurer,
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C.