p. 7 | Out of Sorcery Into Light by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1915

Out of Sorcery Into Light

By W. A. S.

THE new Zulu Mission station at Spion Kop is only in process of construction. Elder and Sister F. B. Armitage are still living in their mud-walled house. But a proper dwelling is now going up, and soon buildings for boarding school work will be under way, it is hoped.

Meanwhile several Zulu evangelists have been developed, and by the combined labors of all, about thirty persons have been baptized among the Zulus.

On the Sabbath that I spent at Spion Kop, one Zulu woman bore a joyful testimony.

“I am free to follow the Lord!” she said, her heart full of thanks to God for her deliverance.

“Who is she?” I asked Elder Armitage.

“She has been a sungo-mi, or sorceress,” he said. “Her husband used her gift for financial gain. If people lost anything, they would come to this woman and give her money to go through some sort of incantations, and tell them where the lost articles might be found.”

She came to the Sabbath meetings, and the truth caught her heart. Though her husband objected, she continued to attend.

“Recently,” said Brother Armitage, “she came to the decision that she would no longer practice her art. This angered the husband, who saw the source of his gain going.

“If you do not do as I tell you,” he said to her, “I will get another wife who will do it.”

“Very well,” she replied; “I can no longer follow this way. I must follow the true God.”

And this Sabbath day of our general meeting the woman was present, rejoicing in a great deliverance.

“My husband has taken another wife,” she said, “and has turned me free. So I am coming to meetings every Sabbath.”

“What about support for her and her child?” I asked. “O, there will be no trouble about that,” I was told; “it is rather the woman who supports her husband. She will cultivate a plot of ground, and easily make a living for herself and child.”

So among these poor natives of the Zulu kraals, victories are being won, and the gospel of Christ is translating souls from Satan’s kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of Christ.

W. A. S.

Spion Kop, Zulu Mission.