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An African Evangelist

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 24, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 40.

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An African Evangelist

By W. B. WHITE

W. B. WHITE
In 1902, under the labors of the African Compound Mission, Robert Mapepuka was converted from heathenism to Christianity. He immediately began laboring with this missionary society, and continued with it till 1909, when he received the truths that we hold as a people. He embraced them with all his heart, and is now one of our native workers on The Rand, in Johannesburg, giving all his time to laboring among the natives. He sells books, gives Bible readings, and preaches as the way opens.
Robert was born in Machopa, above Delagoa Bay, Africa, and is now about thirty years of age. He has a wife but no children. He is quite a linguist, speaking the Machopa, Zulu, Kafir, Sesuto, Shangana, Shewa, Gatonga, and Cheronga languages. At the mines about Johannesburg, thousands of natives are gathered in to labor. These come from most of the tribes of Southern Africa; and Robert's ability to speak so many languages makes him a valuable worker in the cause of present truth. He is an earnest, God-fearing man, and is doing what he can to carry the knowledge of the truth to his people.