What an Offering Means to a Black Boy in Africa
By G. A. Ellingworth
“PLEASE, sir,” said Kabaibwai, “here are five pennies from the Lord’s garden which I hoed this year.” This sum represents one boy’s effort to help the message. To obtain this sum he had to prepare the soil in December, hoe and earth up the crop during the three wettest months, and harvest in May. This was all done in his spare time, which time the native dearly loves to fritter away in idle talk or in searching for wild tomatoes to make a relish for his porridge. At the current rate of eighteen shillings ($4.38) a ton, he grew about fifty pounds of maize to obtain five pence (ten cents). The treasurer handed over to the South African Union Conference the goodly sum of £1 11s. 2d. ($7.59), all earned in this way by different ones in sums ranging from twopence to two shillings and one pence, and consecrated to the spread of the gospel.