Prosperity of Our Solusi Mission by W. E. Howell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 5, 1916

Prosperity of Our Solusi Mission

By W. E. Howell

In the same mail with excellent reports on the opening of our American schools, came a letter from Brother W. C. Walston, superintendent of our far-off Solusi Mission, with the good news that their main school is overfull, many having to be turned away, while the ten out-schools are well attended. The Lord’s prospering hand is surely over this mission, not only in its school efforts, but in the increase of basket and store. Brother Walston says:—

“We are all well here on our station, and receiving many blessings. Our school is even overfull, and we are now obliged to turn many away who would like to enter the school. Our ten out-schools are also well attended. The work seems to be growing rapidly on every side.

“Two of our older native teachers are now spending considerable time canvassing for Bibles and literature in the native language, among their people about the towns and mines, where quite a large number of the natives can read. This has stirred up an interest to read and learn more of our truth, and these teachers are having many calls to teach and to preach the message. Often they spend nearly the whole night thus wherever they stop. This is certainly a great and needy field, and we often wonder where the means and workers are to carry on the work until it is finished. I know the Lord has ways we know not of, and in due time the work will be completed.

“Our agricultural work has been quite a success this year, for which we are very thankful. We seem to have been favored far more than others in this part of Southern Rhodesia, for on the whole, the season has been a poor one on account of drought.

“We have made the situation one of earnest prayer, and our prayers have been answered. We have received the rains we needed, and this has been noticed by both white and native people, and many remarks have been made by them, acknowledging a special blessing on our mission.

“We have more than four thousand bushels of corn, and our neighbors are coming to us to buy sufficient for their own consumption. The natives are obliged to come to us for food, as in many sections there is scarcely any.”

W. E. HOWELL.