The Washington times., 1922-09-02
SAIL TOENGACE
IN ORIENTAL
MISSION WORK
More Members Of Takoma
Park Adventist Families Take
Up Life Tasks.
Two daughters OF Mr.. and Mrs

Two daughters OF Mr.. and Mrs.
r. e. Bowen. Of IS Sycamore
avenue, Takoma Park. and their
husbands are now on their way as
missiona ries to foreign lands. Mr..
and Mrs. Cameron A. Carter sailed
from San Francisco August "a to
engage<in school work in Shanghai,
| China. and DIR. and Mrs. Adrian z.
| Clark will sail from New York on
the steamer Celtic August 26 for
India, where DR.. Clark will become
medical superintendent Of The
Hydro. Electric Institute located at
Simla, the summer capital OF India
in the Himalaya Mountains. Mrs.
Carter was Miss Mabel A. Bowen,
and Mrs. Clark was Miss Alta M.
J Bowen.
A remarkable feature in connec-
ton with the going OF these young
people to foreign lands as mission.
aries Is that they come from a mis-
sionary family In which every adult
member Is an active church worker
or planning to be.
Parents In Church Work.
Mr.. Bowen, the father Of Mrs.
Carter and Mrs. Clark. has been
actively engaged in church work
since 1884. Fer the past sixteen
years he has been connected with
the worlds headquarters Of the
| Seyenth.Day Adventist denomina-
| ton in Takoma Park, as one of the
secretaries, and has also been an
extensive writer for religious publ.
cations.
In 1884 he connected with the
New York conference Of Seventh
Day Adventists In school and tract
society work with headquarters In
Rome, N. Y. Two years later he
connected with the Review and
Herald Publishing Association.
which then had its headquarters in
Battle Creek, Mich. He then re-
turned to western New York where
he spent a year with his parents.
After taking a special course In
the Bible Training School In
| Chicago, he and his wife responded
to the invitation to go to the West
Virginia conference where he re-
mained in tract society work for ten
years. He returned to the New
York conference to engage In
similar work and remained there
|
Takoma Park.
All In Mission Field.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowen, who cele.
brated their thirty-fifth wedding an
niversary August %, have four
daughters and one son, all Of whom
are married, and all but one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Thomas Z. Cunningham,
are actively connected with the
Seventh day Adventist denomination,
and she and her husband are hold
ing themselves in readiness to re-
spond to a call across the seas.
The oldest child. who was Miss
Eva L. Bowen. Is the wife OF Rev.
Walter A. Nelson, who Is the pastor
Of two Seventh-day Adventist
churches in Jersey City, n. ]. The
son, William T. Bowen. is a printer
at the Washington Missionary Col
lege.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carter and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cunningham were married on
the same night, a double wedding
ceremony being performed In the
August 30, 1921.
Mr.. Carter graduated from Wash.
| ington Missionary College in the
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| that accepted the call Of the foreign
mission board to go to China. He
has been getting ready for several
| months past. He will help to train
| young Chinese men and women for
active gospel endeavor among their
own people.
Active In Singing Circles.
1t is quite probable that Mrs.
Carter will also connect with the
school as a teacher Of voice, as she
has been very active in local singing
circles as a vocalist. Mr.. Carter is
a native Of Virginia. His parents
are dead, but his sister, Mrs. NJ. A.
Jenkins, resides ut Foneswood, Va.
DIR. Clark, who goes to India, is
a native OF Concord, n. H. lie is
the son Of George r. Clark, who
now resides at SAT Brafnick street.
Los Angeles, Cal. He took his early
school training In the Adventist
Academy at South Lancaster, Mass,
and then completed a three years
nurses course in the New England
Sanitarium at Melrose, Mass.
Coming to Takoma Park he gradu-
ated from Washington Missionary
College, and then took two years of
his medical course in George Wash
ington University. He took the last
two years of his course at the
College of Medical Evangelists in
Iona Lima, Cal, graduating on May
26. 1891.
Initial Family Feature.
DIR. and Mrs. Clark were married
in Takoma Park on September IS,
1917. Mrs. Clark Is a trained nurse,
having graduated at the MelrOse,
Mass, institution.
A peculiar incident in connect ion
with the marriages of the Bowen
children is, that all of them except
Eva, married companions whose
name begins with &C" Mss Alta
married DR.. Clark, Miss Winnifred
married Mr.. Cunningham, Miss Mabel
married MIR. Carter, and willie
married Miss Carroll. Of Smithburg,
Md.
Mr.. Bowen. the father. believes the
time is just ahead when his daughter
and son.in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Gun.
, ningham, will be called to do their
part toward telling some benighted
people somewhere Of the love that