South Africa

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 10, 1914

Tsungwesi Mission, Eastern Rhodesia

SISTER JEWELL, in reporting the work at the Tsungwesi Mission, tells of their experiences since returning from the Cape, where both she and her husband were forced to go soon after reaching Africa.

“We have just received a little news of the war, which is already causing all groceries to cost enormous prices. Flour is £1 12s. per 100 pounds, and the grocers will sell but a few pounds at a time. We were fortunate enough to buy one hundred pounds a short time ago.”

“Mr. Jewell is real well now, and is getting stronger all the time. He teaches during the forenoon, also in the evening. I do not begin teaching till ten in the morning. In the evening I have a class of twelve young men who work on the farm and do not attend day school, but who study English here at the house. Baby Everett sits on my lap and smiles at the black faces for a while, and soon falls asleep. Eugene, and Chasayi, the native girl who stays with me, care for him mornings while I am at school.”

“The school is growing, the present enrollment being ninety-six, and many of them are fine young men. Outside of school hours, besides the other work, they are very busy making brick for the new buildings. We need so much a new schoolhouse, girls’ dormitory, a church, and an addition to the dining room.”

The Pemba Mission in Barotseland

Sister W. H. Anderson, in personal letters to the Cape, mentions how the mission at Pemba, in Northwestern Rhodesia, is progressing. Brother and Sister Anderson are voted a furlough, which they expect to take down at the Cape, spending some time at the sanitarium first to recuperate from recent attacks of malaria. She writes of their closing work at the mission:—

“Mr. Anderson and I have been doing a great deal of village work since Elder White was here. We first went to an outstation forty miles south, where we found a fine school, and the teacher doing good work. The schools we visited which lie north of us were all prospering, with the exception of one which is situated in the midst of a wild tribe, and is somewhat affected by the spirit of unrest caused by the war.

“We were away four weeks, but were obliged to leave one school unvisited, as Mr. Anderson was having fever all the time, and we felt he should not go farther. The fever season being past, I feel very anxious for him.”

“As soon as he was a little better, he started on a long trip in another direction. I have seen him go away a good many times, but never before did it seem so hard to let him go. I wish it had been possible for me to accompany him, but it did not seem wise, as the two hundred miles which had to be made largely on foot would have been too hard for me. He felt it was necessary for him to go, as no one else knew the way or the boys.

“Brother and Sister Wilson are well, and are doing well in the work.”

We have learned since the above was written that Brother Anderson returned safely, and that one hundred boys are now enrolled in the school.