The Work in South Africa

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 16, 1916

The Work in South Africa

FROM a personal letter from Elder W. B. White, under date of Jan. 19, 1915, we quote the following regarding the work in the South African Union Conference:—

“We are very busy, and rejoice to see the work in this field taking on new life. Since our Durban meeting last April, 40 Europeans have been baptized in the Natal-Transvaal Conference, 60 in the Cape Conference, and 35 in the Free State, making 135 in all. Probably as many more natives have been brought to the truth.

“We have just printed 2,000 copies of a reader in the Chitanga for Northwestern Rhodesia, and are now beginning a hymn book of two hundred hymns for that people. During the last two months the people of that section of Africa have just received the whole New Testament in the vernacular, which will be a great help to us.

“Quite a temperance agitation is now on in South Africa, and we are putting out a special on this question. We hope to scatter 60,000 copies. We have just prepared a tract on the Sabbath question, and also one on the second advent which we hope to print soon in a number of the native languages. We are also at work on ‘Steps to Christ’ in the Sechuana, and are translating ‘The World’s Crisis’ into Dutch. We hope soon to print ‘Early Writings’ in the Dutch, as there has been quite a demand for it. Our courage is good. Pray for us.”