Chasu Publications and Foreign Mission Seminary

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 22, 1910

Chasu Publications and Foreign Mission Seminary

OUR Hamburg Publishing House has sent to the Missionary and Publishing Department of the General Conference a set of three most interesting books, constituting the full library of our publications in the Chasu language of German East Africa. They are, a primer of eighty-eight pages, nicely illustrated; a hymn-book with fifty-five gospel hymns, most of them translated from our own German hymn-book; and the complete Gospel of Matthew. This is the first portion of Scripture ever printed in that tongue. What a wonderful privilege our workers have had in being the ones to first cause the Holy Scriptures to speak in the language of the Vaasu tribes! We note that the preface to the primer has been written by Prof. Carl Meinhof, of the Imperial Colonial Institute of Germany, the chief German authority on East African languages.

The Foreign Mission Seminary opened last week with a goodly number of students, though many of those coming under provisional appointment to mission fields had not arrived on the opening morning. With the friends who had gathered in, the chapel was crowded, however, and all felt the blessing of the Lord in the services. Remarks were made by Brethren A. G. Daniells, W. W. Prescott, H. R. Salisbury, and others, as to the work the Seminary is to do in passing on laborers from conferences and other schools to answer calls from the fields. The opening day was signalized, just after the chapel service, by an action of the General Conference Committee inviting one of the advanced students present to respond to a call that had come to the Educational Department for a teacher in one of our training-schools. Thus on the morning of the opening, one strong worker was passed on to a place of need.