Sweeping Missionary Projects Outlined

Mrs. White took a keen interest in the work of the school. Frequently she would give counsel to the faculty, and address the students. On one occasion, in the midst of a rousing address, she seemed to lose sight of her immediate surroundings, and impressively directed our attention to the great mission fields to the north, and east, and west of us—China, India, South America, and Africa. Some of these great, fields had not yet been entered by Seventh-day Adventists, while in others but a small beginning had been made. She told us most. clearly and forcefully that a great work would yet be carried on in all these fields. It was amazing to us, at that time, to hear her declare that what had been developed in North America would be repeated in those missionary lands. We were still more astonished when she said that young people trained in the Australasian school would be sent as missionaries to the lands mentioned.AGP 309.2

We were overwhelmed by the great scope of activity and development outlined with such assurance. To enter those countries; learn the difficult languages; make disciples; organize churches; establish schools, printing houses, and medical institutions,—in short, to duplicate what had then been developed in North America, and to send missionaries from our little Australasian school to help do it,—all this seemed like the wildest kind of speculation. Our poor minds were too narrow and our vision too constricted to follow the great sweeping advance outlined to us in this address:AGP 309.3

But some who were present have lived to see those staggering predictions strikingly fulfilled. Our work is now firmly established in India, Burma, Malaysia, China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines,—to the north and west of Australia. A great workAGP 309.4

is being done in South America and Africa. What had been developed in North America in 1892 is already practically duplicated in some of these fields. Moreover, young men and young women, trained in Australia, have gone to every one of these mission fields,—save, possibly, South America.AGP 310.1