A Visit to Outlying Mission Stations

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1916

A Visit to Outlying Mission Stations

WRITING to Brother E. R. Palmer, of the Review and Herald, Elder W. B. White, president of the South African Union Conference, expresses his great appreciation for the donation made by the Review and Herald Publishing Association to assist in the publishing work in South Africa. He also expresses his appreciation of the efforts of Brother Palmer in assisting them to secure paper stock at less rate than it could be obtained in the open market. Speaking of a visit which he had just made to some of our outlying mission stations, Brother White says:—

“During this trip we penetrated into some very dark country. We rode behind a donkey team for more than one hundred miles into a country where the white face is seldom seen. Our work has a little start in that region, and we are laying plans to carry it forward, but broader plans must be laid than have hitherto been in operation. It is a large reservation, and heathenism here is in full flower. We must put a white man here, and build a good house for him. “For the first time in my life I reached a place where I could hear of no white settlements ahead, no cities, no towns, only blank, dark heathenism. It is a country that is infested with wild game of every kind. Two nights where we camped, the lions kept the woods ringing with their roaring. There are also wild elephants and other large game. Giraffes frequent the country along the rivers, and their tracks can be seen everywhere. I should like to have stayed down there through the dry season for a vacation, but was obliged to return home. We are now building a good house on the reservation, and shall locate there one of our best Matebele workers.”

Brother White reports the health of himself and family as good. God is abundantly blessing the work in that important field. They look forward with pleasure to the help which Elder U. Bender will render them as superintendent of the work in Rhodesia and Nyasaland.