p. 15 | Basutoland by Minnie A. Chaney

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 2, 1905

_Basutoland_

By Minnie A. Chaney

KOLO.— We are glad to learn from week to week, through the dear REVIEW, the progress of the work of the Lord in Washington, D. C. The Lord is certainly with his people, and is leading them on to the promised land.

The sifting time has surely come, and O, how necessary it is to seek the Lord now as never before, and to “pray without ceasing”! Satan is working with great wrath to overthrow the children of God, and is stopping the ears of those in his ranks that they may not hear. We have noticed this so much in our work here in Basutoland. The indifference of the people is painful. They seem quite content with ignorance, and, in some instances, clearly choose it. Pray for us, that we may have wisdom from on high, and the power of the Spirit to awaken them out of sleep.

Basutoland is quite filled with missions and schools, and it is a popular thing to belong to the church. But the sad part is that people are taken into the church without knowing God, and are free to continue in drunkenness and sin, with apparently no conscience. And those thus indulging in sin are quick to testify with their lips and to pray in public, and, on being asked regarding their spiritual welfare, will almost invariably say that God is with them, and that they are progressing nicely in the Christian life. “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” May the dear Saviour show these people that they have a sickness, even unto death, and lead them to call upon the Great Physician.

We are so glad for the assistance of our fellow worker, Murray Kalaka. We have learned to love him, and believe that he is an earnest child of God. We

believe there are others here, also, who love the Lord, and we are endeavoring with the help of God, to lead them on in the way of life.

We have been deeply interested in reading of the progress of the work in other fields, especially in Russia, where so many have decided for the Lord, and have been so faithful amid severe persecution; and in Korea, whence came a call for help and for the baptism of those who accepted the truth through the one who received it on the sea. How wonderfully the Saviour is working for the perishing, and how faithfully he sends the message to the honest in heart! Then there is Ceylon. We have been deeply interested in that place, where the third angel's message has not heretofore been proclaimed, and where there is a population so well suited to reach many different people. Our attention was drawn there first by the fact that so many of the Boers were taken there as prisoners during the late war. Then just recently the reports came from Brother Armstrong, telling of the opening there. How good it is to give the message to those who are longing for truth and ready to heed the message. MINNIE A. CHANEY.