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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 11, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 56.

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A Long Time Coming

By W. A. S.

“WHY did you not come before?” Often in the story of missions this question has been asked. Over in the eastern Transvaal, Elder W. S. Hyatt met a man whose heart was much stirred at the first glimpse that he had caught of this wonderful message.
“I notice this is the eighteenth volume,” the man said, holding out a copy of the South African paper; “how is it that I have never seen a copy of this paper before?”
Our brethren in South Africa are trying to remedy this situation by sending sample copies of the Dutch and the English paper to every name appearing in the directory of farms and remote country establishments, where possibly a man’s next-door neighbor may live ten to twenty miles away. W. A. S.