Encouraging News from East African Missions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 21, 1915

Encouraging News from East African Missions

WE learn from Elder L. R. Conradi that further news has come from the missions in German East Africa, so long cut off from communication. The news is encouraging. They have been able to give their native teachers part salary, sufficient to keep them from want, and in the necessities of the case the various missions have been growing more grain and foodstuffs than formerly, for which the war conditions have created a market. We learn also that one of our missionaries in British East Africa, a Belgian brother, has been called over into the Belgian Kongo, to engage in clerical service, we take it, for the government. Elder Conradi adds: “We hope he will be able to make a start on the study of the native language in the region where he is located, and become acquainted with the territory and the people. We hope that by the time this trouble is all over, we shall be ready to start mission work also in that great field. Thus while some things may look dark, God, in his wonderful providence, leads the way and so directs that even difficulties turn to victory.”