Nyasaland, South Africa
By C. ROBINSON
I HAVE just returned from visiting the out-schools, and I found most of them doing good work. I was much encouraged to find so many in the Bible classes for baptism. There are ninety-eight candidates in all the schools, and on the mission here there are about fifty. This is the encouraging part of our work. We have Simon’s brother in from the out-school where he was teaching; and when Simon gets a better knowledge of the work, we shall let him go out to the villages. I shall take him with me the first time if possible. If we can develop both Simon and Moses into good evangelists, it will be a great help in the work here. I baptized three converts at Malava; while at Monekera, I found that there were about twenty-five baptized during Brother J. C. Rogers’s last visit whose names were not on our church book. These bring our membership up to over one hundred sixty. I have just received a letter from the Portuguese government at Tete about our entering their territory; as it is written in Portuguese, I can not read it, but shall send it to Brother S. M. Konigmacher. We are busy stumping the fields, and find the stumping-jack a fine help. It is very simple, and the boys can work it without assistance. Miss Edie is in her new rooms, and likes them well. She will soon begin her work for the women and girls of the villages. Mrs. G. A. Ellingworth is good help in the school work. We are at work on the school building, and expect to have it finished next week. It will be quite a nice building when done. The kraals will be completed this week, and the cattle will be quite comfortable in them. I am having Job build his house close by, so that he can be near them at night. Our stock is all doing well at present. C. ROBINSON.