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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 25, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 4.

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Cholo, Nyassaland

By MRS. S. M. KONIGMACHER

MRS. S. M. KONIGMACHER
My husband has met with an accident, and I am writing a few lines to tell you about it.
The mission was obliged to buy five tons of corn this year. Brother G. A. Ellingworth bought it from an Indian about twenty miles away. He was unable to get carriers to transport it to the mission, and the Indian asked him to take it away. So my husband volunteered to take thirty-five schoolboys, go to the Indian’s place, build a grain store (native style), and transfer the grain to the roadside, so the oxen could be put to a cart, to haul it in.
He left here Sunday morning, reaching the village about two o’clock in the afternoon. They had a session of school with the boys, and bargained for a new native hut in which to place the grain. This saved building the grain store. On Monday they transferred a ton of corn, and held their school session. On Tuesday they carried two tons to the house, and the third ton was also put in bags and carried quite a distance, for the early Wednesday trip home. One ton had been brought to the mission, three were left with a watchman, and the fifth was brought on here.
MR. AND MRS. S. M. KONIGMACHER
MR. AND MRS. S. M. KONIGMACHER
When my husband was within eight miles of home, the donkey was frightened, and, turning quickly, threw him off. The saddle also slipped, so that he had quite a fall, breaking his right arm just above the elbow.
He obtained a machila (stretcher), and was taken on it to the nearest house, where he found a doctor who had come to get a blackwater fever patient. The doctor set the bones, made some splints of bamboo, and bound it up.
He was exceedingly fortunate to have a physician’s help at once. Yesterday he went in to Blantyre to have the arm properly bound and to get good splints.
The accident was on Wednesday morning. Thursday he taught his classes as usual in school, and held a lantern lecture and prayer-meeting in the evening. Friday he conducted vespers, and on Sabbath day held three church services.
Conditions are not always especially pleasant, but God’s work must go, and the people must be warned; and if we, by our feeble efforts, can do any good in this land, may God have all the glory.