p. 13 | African Boys’ Offerings to Missions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 17, 1915

African Boys’ Offerings to Missions

By S. M. KONIGMACHER

S. M. KONIGMACHER

LAST week the Week of Prayer Readings were read during the chapel period, and it was announced that we should take up an offering. This was something new to most of the boys, and on Friday I called some of them and asked if they wanted to work for threepence. They were glad to do so. They kept coming till I had fifteen working. Some hoed out the paths, and some cleaned up for the Sabbath. Others came too late for me to give them work. On the Sabbath a little boy came to me looking very troubled. I asked, “What do you want, Tongotongo?” He said he had no ticky (money) to give to the Lord, and he wanted some to put in, the same as the rest of the boys. I told him to come to the house. He came and was not disappointed. Seeing his success, others came also, until I had given out to about fifteen, with the promise that they should work for it the following week.

Well, when I rang the bell, or rather beat a plowshare, they came. After telling them what the money was for and where it was going, and showing some of the pictures in the Harvest Ingathering Review, the collection was taken, and I believe every boy had something to give. Our only village church member came and brought some eggs. When I was coming home after the service was over, a boy came running after me, and I stopped to see what he wanted. With a big smile on his face, he took an egg out of his vest pocket and gave it as a donation. The total was not so great, but with the blessing of the One to whom it is given, it will do its share in winning souls for his kingdom.