South Africa by M. E. EMMERSON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 8, 1908

South Africa

By M. E. EMMERSON

CAPE TOWN.—We reached Cape Town on the morning of August 23. It was a beautiful day. As we looked out of our port-hole, we saw Table Mountain reaching far into the clouds. The city below looked as good to me as any place I have ever seen.

I must give you a bit of our experience coming from England to Cape Town. The first evening out from Southampton I was talking to a spiritualist concerning the personality of God, when a tall, portly man, with open countenance, came into the gathering, and testified to the fact that he himself had once been a spiritualist. “Now,” he said, “I am a converted man. And do you know that the very moment I was converted, I was using the devil’s power?” He went on, trying to convince the man of his wrong, for which purpose

he used several quotations from the Old Testament.

This man had never heard of Seventh-day Adventists, but was hungry for truth. I presented the Sabbath question to him. He and his wife both accepted it at once, and kept the first Sabbath on board the ship. We were together three weeks, during which time, by God’s help, we presented most of the subjects taken up in tent-meetings. I found him very ready to accept any light God had to give him. He told me that three days before the boat left London, he did not know that he was going, but the money for the voyage came from an unexpected source, and he knew God wanted him to sail on that boat. He goes on to Durban, South Africa; and as the ship stayed here in Cape Town over the twenty-third until the evening of the twenty-fourth, Elder W. S. Hyatt and I went down to the docks to have a visit with our new brother. We found him glad to see us, and eager to hear more truth. Elder Hyatt put in good time talking the message. In Durban one of our ministers is holding meetings. This brother will stop to attend them; and when the church is organized there, which will be in a week or two, he and his wife will present themselves for membership. God works by land and sea. To his name be all the glory.

We leave Cape Town for Basutoland, September 6. M. E. EMMERSON.