Kolo Mission, Basutoland, South Africa
SISTER FANNY C. BOURNE, reporting the work at the Kolo Mission, in the upland of Basutoland, tells how the good hand of the Lord is over the work there. She writes:— “We are just a small company, but week by week we prove the promise found in Matt. 18:20, at our Friday evening meetings. “Brother and Sister Silsbee are both doing all they can among the sick. This week they have visited and given treatment to three persons who were seriously ill. Brother Silsbee has various experiences, as I suppose is common to all missionaries. A few weeks ago he was called from work in the garden to make a coffin for a little child that had just died; the relatives were so pleased that they asked him to ‘preach a sermon at the grave.’ This gave him an opportunity to tell of the state of the dead and the resurrection, to about one hundred persons, including the chiefs of several villages. “Last week a minister of the Jerusalem Church came representing his people and asking that they be admitted to our church. He has nine ministers under him, with five hundred members, and he says they are in harmony with the Sabbath truth. Brother Silsbee told him they would need more instruction first, and he is planning to visit them. This is the second visit from this man, with the same request. “Brother Lazarus and Brother Peter are having good times in the school and the canvassing work. At our last Friday evening meeting Lazarus told of one man who was very anxious to have a Sesuto copy of ‘Daniel and the Revelation.’ This man said if even one copy could be translated for him, he would give three pounds for it. Several near here are interested, and we pray they may be led to accept the whole truth.”