For a number of years previous to his acceptance of the present truth, Brother Munson had been connected with the Methodist Mission in East India, but was obliged, on account of failing health, to return home.
Soon after accepting the Sabbath 'truth, and with health in a measure restored, he decided to return to his former field of labor. Locating in Padang, Sumatra, he at once opened a school for Chinese children and youth, and soon had an enrollment of fifty or more. Before the close of the first year he had an income from the students of £10 per month.
Birthday, July 6.
1893
R. W. Munson opened a home for orphans in Singapore.
1899
November 11, R. W. Munson leaves New York for Padang, Sumatra to work among the Chinese there. They meet Tay Hong Siang, one of the first three boys to be admitted to the Singapore orphanage, now working in Padang. Tay and his wife and baby come to live and work with the Munson family. Tay has already found one Chinese man was has accepted the Gospel and has already begun keeping the Sabbath.
1900
Munson begins an English language school in Padang. He calls it a mission school, "pure and simple".
December 1, The Australasian Union Record presents a major mission study of what was then called Malaysia by R. W. Munson
1902
E.H. Gates visits with Munson. They travel to Deli, Penang, and other places. They seek to extend the work.
First publication in the Malay language issued by Munson of Padang, Sumatra; a thirty-two page publication on the signs of the times and coming of the Lord.
Miss MARCELIA WALKER, a trained nurse, sailed from New York, November 15, for Padang, Sumatra, where she will join Elder and Mrs. R. W. Munson in their work.
1904
Munson calls for the building of a church in order to add a sense of permanence to the work in Padang.
1905
Oldest son sick with Typhoid. Munson and family leave Sumatra for Australia. No one to take his place.
1908
Union Conference Committee
1909
R. W. Munson returns to Java from Australia as a translator at Soekaboemi
Miss Janz gives "to us oversight of her little colony of two hundred persons."
1910
The Malay Messenger of Truth Begins
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