General Conference Bulletin, vol. 4

THE MEDITERRANEAN MISSION

Only a small beginning has been made in this important field, comprising European Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt, with some 50,000,000 of people. All our brethren have heard of the great difficulties our few faithful laborers have experienced. Elder Z. G. Baharian, being kept quite a while in prison, has been under bond, since his release, also the other native worker. Thus the 200 Sabbath-keepers in some thirty different places in Asia Minor have had during the last eighteen months no ministerial help, and the work is naturally suffering. The only labor our people have had outside of Constantinople was a four-days’ meeting I held in Asia Minor, where some seventy-five members are centered. Small companies in different parts await baptism, and long to be instructed. GCB April 9, 1901, page 160.9

At Jaffa a successful medical mission has been opened, and also one later at Jerusalem. Elder J. H. Krum finds his hands full. A great field to circulate out literature presents itself here, and urgent demands are being made to publish in the Arabic and Hebrew. About a dozen in this field have thus far accepted the truth. GCB April 9, 1901, page 160.10

A good start was made in Egypt, while Elder Holser was there. There are three medical workers now engaged, and a dozen believers have been gathered in Alexandria and Cairo. These large fields should not have simply one, but several tried workers, at least one in Turkey and one in Egypt. This calls for more help and more means. GCB April 9, 1901, page 160.11

Four hundred millions of people in these four fields are calling for help. Men are everywhere needed to build up the work, to look after the souls who hunger and thirst after the truth. Means is called for the support these workers, and to produce our publications in the many languages of Europe and Asia. Our hearts should rejoice as we see souls set free in the ancient land of Pharaoh, to see also the last message gain a foothold in Palestine—the very land whence the gospel went forth, and to hear the Macedonian cry come from old Macedonia itself. May souls be inclined to answer the call, and meet the many wants. L. R. CONRADI. GCB April 9, 1901, page 160.12