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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 14, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 24.

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Rhodesia, Africa

By W. H. Anderson

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MISSION FARM, KALOMA.—I am leaving here this week to go to Buluwayo to purchase our year's provisions. What would you think of having to go five hundred miles to the nearest grocery? Buluwayo is our nearest trading station. The railroad has kindly granted me a free pass over its line, and I hope to get free freight for my goods from the Falls to our station. They have granted me a special gun license, which saves twenty dollars a year.
By the last mail I received a letter from Elder Hyatt, sanctioning my plan to make a trip north of the Kafir River during June or July, to look out a new mission station. This will take two months of my time, and mean about four hundred miles on foot. The expenses of the trip will be about two hundred dollars.
We must pass out into these new fields. We need not wait until all the best places are taken, and then take what is left. This work is fast closing up. We must step quickly. Yet we can go no faster than the men and means are advanced to go forward with. The railroad is now finished to the Kafir River, and they are at work on the bridge. It will be only a little while until we shall be able to run quickly all through Africa. We must have these central stations to train the native workers, and they can go out into those parts that are not so easy of access for the white man.
My Bible class is beginning its work. I will not get them down to hard work, however, until we return from Buluwayo.
Our crops are good, considering the lateness of the rains, and the few tools that we have to work with. I think we will have enough grain for this year; and having food and raiment we are content—only the boys have not the raiment.
I never saw a better spirit manifest among the boys than we have. As some of them are inquiring the way of salvation and we are giving them the message straight, it is arousing opposition in some quarters. This gospel of the kingdom cuts across the customs and desires of the natural heart; hence, those who do not accept it soon begin to oppose it. But God has promised that even the wrath of man will praise him, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain.
We are now enjoying good health. Our courage is good, and we feel like pressing the battle a little harder than ever before. We ask an interest in your prayers, that we may ever be faithful to the work committed to our care. W. H. ANDERSON.