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Prosperity at Barotseland Mission

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 10.

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Prosperity at Barotseland Mission

THE following was gleaned from a private letter from W. H. Anderson, in charge of the self-supporting mission station at Barotseland, South Africa:—
“We have had nice rains, and all are hard at work on the farm. We have about twenty acres planted to peanuts, and a little more to mealies [corn]. We have three plows, the disk-harrow, and the planter going all the time. I hope we may be able to plant one hundred fifty acres of mealies this year. We have harvested our potatoes planted down at the spring. The ground was a little too wet for them to do real well, but we have about two hundred bags. That will mean two hundred fifty pounds [about twelve hundred dollars], as we are offered twenty-five shillings a bag. We shall double the number of irrigating ditches before we plant again.”
Greater prosperity for the mission in temporal things means greater opportunity for accomplishing the purpose of its establishment, the proclamation of the message among the peoples of Africa.