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A Native Outschool Teacher’s Experience

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 27, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 21.

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A Native Outschool Teacher’s Experience

Some of the difficulties attending the labors of our native evangelists in Basutoland are enumerated by one of the workers, in writing to Brother Silsbee. We give a portion of his letter as follows:—
“DEAR BROTHER: I received your letter Friday before last. I was very glad to get it. I have noted all you say. I have been trying to do the best I could here to tell the people about the second coming of Christ, also about keeping the Sabbath of the high God.
“One of the women when I was speaking wanted to go to another mission, where she can get a drink of joala [native beer]. Many of them won’t come to the Sabbath church because we do not drink joala. Today all the people here have gone to the — mission, because they have made lots of joala. It is a big feast of baptism. The people go there only to eat and drink. It is very bad in this place. The people do not know which is truth.
JOSHUA NDABAMBI AND HIS WIFE
JOSHUA NDABAMBI AND HIS WIFE
“You ask if the chief is still drinking. Yes, he is still drinking, only he does not go to those feasts. Also about the school. The people in this place have taken the children from our school and sent them to the heathen training class, those which can read very good. Now I have only fourteen children, nine children not coming any more. They are in the school of this world.
“You must pray for me. Although I am in this place of hard-hearted people, the Lord knows what he can do with them. The only thing I can do is to tell them about the Holy Word of God. Sometimes I get so discouraged that I wish I was not in this place. I do pray to God to show me how to work for him in preaching the gospel among this people.
J. NDABAMBI.