British East Africa by A. A. CARSCALLEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1914

British East Africa

By A. A. CARSCALLEN

A. A. CARSCALLEN

It is now eight months since my family and I arrived in this country after a furlough of nine months. We all feel much benefited by the change, and return to our work with fresh energy.

The work here is increasing very rapidly. We were granted seven sites, but, owing to the shortage of workers, were able to supply only five of these with white workers, the remaining two being managed by our native workers. Since our return, however, we have taken over one of these stations, and Brother and Sister Matter, who have just arrived from Germany, are taking charge of the other, so all our stations are now supplied with white workers. Each station has several outschools run in connection with it, and we all are very busy looking after our main stations and visiting our outschools occasionally.

We brought a small printing press back with us, which we find extremely useful. We are fortunate in having a qualified printer among our workers, so now we have a little paper published monthly, which we find very helpful in our schools, as it provides a constant supply of fresh reading matter for our senior pupils. The first copy of this paper was printed last January. It is called Jaote Luo, or Luo Messenger, Luo being the native name for the tribe among which we labor. One hundred and fifty copies of this paper are supplied each month to the other Protestant societies working among the Luo tribe, and recently I received a letter from a Catholic priest asking me to supply him with copies. Our paper is suitable reading for any mission school. One page is devoted to the book of Daniel. About twenty verses of this book are translated and printed each month. The other pages contain short stories from the Bible and other books, items of interest, and current news.

All our workers are putting forth special effort to increase our school attendance, and by the end of this year we hope to have one thousand pupils at our stations, besides our outschools.

We are glad to be able to report that the courage of all the workers is good, and that all enjoy a fair degree of health in this trying climate.

We ask our people in the home field to pray that God will bless our efforts, so that all the sacrifices made, and all the money spent in this field, may not have been in vain.

Kamagambo Mission Station.