NEW FIELDS ENTERED

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C.

FromReview and Herald, Harvest Ingathering Number

NEW FIELDS ENTERED

Opening a New Mission

ONE brief extract will present a picture of the opening of a new industrial station in Southern Rhodesia, near Victoria. T. J. Gibson gives us also a sketch of the “camp,” evidently the beginning of the mission operations. Our American Sabbath schools gave a portion of one Sabbath’s offering for the purchase of the new farm for this Glendale Mission, as it is called. Brother Gibson says:—

“We brought five boys with us from the Selukwe Mission, and our family of native helpers now numbers sixteen. Five of these are prepared to go out as teachers or evangelists as soon as they can be spared from work upon the land. Each Sabbath we visit the native villages, holding services. We have a round which it takes four weeks to complete, holding from two to five meetings each Sabbath. By this means we reach from six hundred to eight hundred persons during the month, and the circle will widen as we get more native evangelists in training. These are kept constantly in actual service while they carry on their school work, and the purpose of soul-winning service is kept ever before them in their studies. We have good meetings in the kraal of the nearest native chief, and the people gather in from other kraals. They say they have received the missionary, and now they desire to learn of Jesus.”