Gospel Victories in Northern Nigeria

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1916

Gospel Victories in Northern Nigeria

WRITING from Ilorin, Northern Nigeria, West Africa, Elder D. C. Babcock says: “The Lord is giving daily victories in this field. Never before, in all my thirty-eight years' experience in this message, have I seen so much of the working of the Holy Spirit. Our workers are few and inexperienced, but the message moves forward. Truly we can say, as did the apostles, that souls are daily added to our numbers. I have just organized a church of eighty-one members at Ipoti, and there will be about that many more baptized in the near future at the same place. At another station fully fifty have accepted Christianity, given up their idols, and are preparing for baptism. Here where we are, near Ilorin, more than three hundred have given up their idols and embraced the message we love. An outbreak of smallpox has made it necessary for us to close our native meetings and Sabbath school temporarily. Last Friday the chief and head man came to me and asked if I would not allow them to come to Sabbath services at the mission church. The request was granted, and more than three hundred were present. Pray for us.”