Comfort from a Native Evangelist

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 19, 1908

Comfort from a Native Evangelist

A TOUCHING letter just received from a missionary sent out by another mission board to the Kongo, tells how in the hour of bereavement in his family, one of the native evangelists officiated at the funeral of the little child that had just died. He spoke with such tenderness and power that the missionary is constrained to say, “The comfort, strength, and inspiration which came to our hearts through the message of our own evangelist on this occasion were so truly wonderful that if we had no other fruit from all our years of labor and sorrow on this difficult field than that single moment and that one man, we would feel infinitely repaid.” “Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.”