South African Workers’ Institute and Conference

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

South African Workers’ Institute and Conference

Writing at the close of the Durban meeting, April 28, Brother W. A. Spicer says:—

“We have had a good workers’ institute and conference. It has been a bit long and full, but we really have had a blessed time, and the manifest blessing of the Lord has been with the people. About three hundred and fifty were here,—the largest meeting they ever had. Though we were about twelve hundred miles from the Cape Conference headquarters, where the largest constituency is, there were over seventy here from the Cape. These people love the truth, they respond just the same as in our American conferences, and the Lord is helping them.

“The time was crowded with the holding of three local conferences—the Cape, the Orange Free State, and the Natal-Transvaal—during our union conference. No changes were made in presidents. In fact, there is no chance to make changes.

“We had profitable conferences with the missionaries preceding the conference, and they are remaining a few days for further counsel and detail planning. I am glad to find more of the South African young men getting into the mission work. These have a good grip on the native tongues.”

Brother Spicer hoped to finish his visits among the missions in Basutoland and Rhodesia, so as to sail for England on his return, about August 1.