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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 14, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 2.

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South Africa

By J. V. WILLSON

OCTOBER 27 I received a telegram from Elder W. H. Anderson, of the Barotseland Mission, twelve hundred miles north of Kimberley, saying that he was very sick, and wished me to come at once. I went on the next train, and found him suffering from inflammatory rheumatism. The Lord blessed the simple treatments, and in a little over two weeks he was able to resume his school work again.
The mission farm consists of five thousand acres of good land. There is a dwelling-house of hard brick, a church, and a school building. There were forty-eight scholars attending the school, ten new ones coming in while I was there. I found the boys earnest and faithful in their work, and think this mission will be the means of giving the message all through that territory. It is Brother Anderson's ambition to give the gospel to every native in his district in a very few years.
The students work the land as their manual training, and they will put in over two hundred acres of crops this year, mostly Indian corn, which does well here, also potatoes, enyouti, and sweet potatoes.
On my way home I stopped at the Solusi Mission for a week. Here they have twelve thousand acres of land, and will have three hundred acres of crops this year. Brother M. C. Sturdevant destroyed twenty-seven swarms of locusts last year, so he does not fear their ravages any more.
There is a great work to be done among the natives all through this country, and many consecrated workers are needed to carry it on. May the Lord lay the burden on many to engage in this work. J. V. WILLSON.