Progress in Natal

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 30, 1910

Progress in Natal

In a letter recently received from Elder H. J. Edmed, president of the Natal-Transvaal Conference, comes word of the way in which they keep pace with the advance movement of the work in that far-away field. Their experience should be an encouragement to others in undertaking the same work.

“We have adopted the recommendation of the General Conference that nurses spend three months each year in the field as a part of their training. I am conducting a large city mission at Johannesburg at present, with twelve workers, most of whom are self-supporting; and I take the nurses, in turn, for three months, for the field work. They take the classes also. Nurse Irene Fourie has the honor of being the first in our field to demonstrate that nurses can do acceptable self-supporting field work. Her record for the ten weeks she was with us is as follows: Treatments given, 106; books and papers sold, 931; value, $151. Her work brought in sufficient funds to entirely support her. We gave her the profits on her sales, and she is now continuing the same work in connection with the institute at Pietermaritzburg. Since Miss Fourie’s return, Sister Janie Strachan has been with us, taking her turn at the field work with acceptance, though her time is more fully occupied giving treatments. We have a treatment department in our mission, which, with the rest of the work, is self-supporting. So far we have not drawn upon the conference funds for any financial help.”