South Africa by O. O. FORTNER

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 22, 1905

South Africa

By O. O. FORTNER

Our work is getting on a little better footing in the Cape Colony Conference. Since the camp-meeting, Brother Groenewald, who was ordained at the camp-meeting to work among the Dutch people, has been laboring among these, and has baptized thirteen who have been awaiting this rite. I expect a goodly number of people in the Dutch districts between the Cape and Port Elizabeth, will accept the truth as soon as our laborers can go to them. We have been corresponding from the office with quite a number, and have sent out a large amount of literature, and many are interested. One of the brethren who returned from Bermuda has been doing good missionary work in the Orange River Colony, and several are interested in his vicinity, and a few have begun already to keep the Sabbath. I have received letters from those whom this brother has brought into the truth. These people are all Dutch.

We are just now trying to find a location in the country for our sanitarium. The work is now being carried on in the building that was formerly the orphanage, in Plumstead, a suburb of Cape Town. We have felt for some time that this institution should be in a locality more in harmony with the specifications of the spirit of prophecy. O. O. FORTNER.