The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-08-14

IbutE ". Il. llNln OcCUDlGu lue
three O'Clock hour at the camp
Tuesday afternoon in a talk regard
ing his recent trip around the
world. Taking passage at San
Francisco the 10th OF October he
left the United States for Aus
tralia where he spent two weeks
visiting the Adventist institutions
in that field.
The speaker stated that the work
of the seventh-day Adyentists in
Australia had only been in pro-
gress twenty years. but in that
time over four thousand believers
had been brought to the faith, and
that there were six organized con-
rerences in Australia, one in Tas-
mania and one in New Zealand, and
that the whole had been organiz-
led into q union conference. This
,uuiou conference has control of the
work Of the denomination in the
Polynesian. Melanesian, and Micron-
sian groups in the southern Paci-
fc. as well as the work in the
East Indies, the Philippine Islands
land the Malay Peninsula. He said
that at n recent session Of the
Union conference held near Sid
npy. Australia. that fourteen new
missionaries were sent out to var
ious places in the missionary ter
ritory Of the conference, large
proportion OF these workers going
10 the East Indies.
The speaker said that the denom-
mation had a large industrial
school I'm Australia 10 which was
attached a farm of over one thous-
and acres. At the present there.
ere two hundred and eleven stu
lcnts in this school, eighty per cent
Of whom paid a portion Of their
way by working at the various in
lustries connected with the school,
such rs printing, carpenter work,
ewing. besides the work Of the
farm. He spoke of their large sani-
talim that was in operation near
Sidney. and which was exercising
D good influence throughout the
entire country. lie said further
that they had publishing house
near Melbourne that employed
nearly one hundred hands, who we're
engaged in printing and publish
ing nothing but matter bearing
upon the third angels message.
From Australia Elder Irwin went
to Cape Town, South Africa, ariv-
ing there the first Of January and
spending the entire month there in
q conference which was held in
Clarcmont. one Of the suburbs Of
the city. At this meeting there were
representatives from the two organ
lied conferences in the field, viz,
Cape Colony and the Natal Trans
yaal Conference, rs well rs a rep
r.seutative from each Of the nine
missions carried on by the denomi-
nation among the natives Of South
Africa.
The speaker called attention to
the fact that two years prior TO the
beginning of our work in South
Africa, 1887, that the great coutin-
emit was in one year divided among
eight Of the principal nations of
Europe, viz, Great Britain, France,
Germany, Portugal, Spain, Belgium,
Italy and Turkey. or the eleven
and a half millions of square miles
contained in the continent all but
one million was under the control
of the above named powers, only
one million being in the hands of
the original owners. He said fur
theImorc that in the last score Of
years rapid advancement had been
made in opening up the country as
the result Of this foreign occupation.
At present there are over eight
Thousand miles Of railroad, railroads
having been pushed into the country
from eight to ten different points
on the east coast. most Of them com
ing far enough into the interior to
connect with the Cape Cairo rail
read that is projected from Cape
Town in the south TO Ca iro in the
north. This railroad is finished
from Cape Town almost to the bor-
der Of the Congo Free State; so
that missionaries going up into the
interior are no longer compelled to
submit to the inconvenience and
danger Of trecking that long dis
tance with oxen or donkey teams.
The trip from the coast to the
great lakes, that once occupied
seventy days hard and fatig1liag
march can now he taken in comfort
able railway carriages in two days.
The speaker gave as his opinion
that while hese enterprises were
projected and carried forward bv
EWopean capital for the purpose Of
obtaining the mineral wealth Of
The country, there was greater
mower and deeper purpose behind
Il all, and that is, that the time
had como for the last messagc of