Missionaries Sail for South Africa

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

Missionaries Sail for South Africa

THIS week, by the steamship “Sierra,” from San Francisco, a party of missionaries set sail for South Africa. They are Elder and Mrs. U. Bender and two children, and Professor and Mrs. H. G. Patchett. These workers sail by way of Australia in order to avoid the submarine zone, which makes the Atlantic route less safe than formerly. Elder Bender was appointed at the autumn council a year ago to the superintendency of the new Rhodesian Union Mission, which includes Nyasaland and all Rhodesia north and south of the Zambezi. Elder Bender is released from the presidency of the Montana Conference in order to accept this call, and will receive a hearty welcome in South Africa. For years he was president of the West Indian Union Conference, returning to the States for a change after a long time in the tropics, and he now goes out again into the mission fields. Heretofore the president of the South African Union Conference, whose headquarters are at Cape Town, far to the southward, has had to take oversight of these northern missions. Professor and Mrs. Patchett have been connected with the Beechwood Academy, in Indiana, and are released in order to respond to the call for help in the Claremont Union College, South Africa.