In the year 1899 we heard of a young man by the name of Orrin A. Hall, a member of the graduating class of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was called to teach in a Missouri church school. From 1900 to 1904 he was engaged in ministerial work.

Next we learn that Orrin was principal of the Northwestern Training School, Manitoba, Canada from 1904 to 1907. That summer he was invited to join the Nebraska Conference as Missionary Volunteer Secretary until 1909.

He and his wife were among that large group of missionaries who went to the Far East in 1909 in answer to the urgent call from the Asiatic Division for more workers in China.  His first position was as mission director and principal of the training school

 in Honan Province. After the removal of the school to Shanghai, he taught there for several years.

He became president of the East China Union Mission for the next nine years. From 1912 to 1917 he and his wife served as committee members of the Asiatic Division. She was Sabbath School Secretary of the East China Union Mission. Her health failed and they had to return to America.

For five years he did pastoral work in California. Returning again to the mission field they labored in the South China Union. For five years in Hong Kong he worked for the Division’s Ministerial Association and as an editor.

The last position of his ministry in the Orient was to return to the East China Union as president. He was one of the last Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to be evacuated from Shanghai. After returning to America he engaged in pastoral work in the Northern California Conference for five years.

His memory will long be remembered in that great land of China.