Blantyre, Nyasaland, South Africa
By C. Robinson
I returned a while ago from visiting the out-schools at Malavi, Monekera, and the other villages in that direction, and although many of the boys are out working for their tax money, I was well pleased with the work done and with the good spirit in the schools. The best school has a Bible class of twenty-four, including the chief of the village. Being near to Mantandane, I paid Brother Konigmacher a visit, and we had a good time together. He and Sister Konigmacher are working diligently on the Portuguese language, and by the time we get permission, will be ready to enter that field. The Sabbath I was there Brother Konigmacher baptized twenty-four adults, so that now the Mantandane church numbers thirty-four, including Brother and Sister Konigmacher. There are also sixty-six persons still in the Bible classes in the Mantandane district, and all this shows the good work which has been done there. They are all well. Moses went with me on this trip, but not to Mantandane. He was a good help. We held meetings with the church-members at Malavi and at Monekera, and tried to get them to do more work for the Lord. Some of them have promised to make mission gardens, some will have mission fowls, and others have various plans for raising money for the work. I spoke to them about the “widow’s two mites,” and they agreed with me, better than I had hoped they would, that it is time the church in Nyasaland is beginning to help carry on the Lord’s work. I want all our teachers to take up the monthly collections in the villages just as we do at Malamulo, and also to teach their Bible-class members to make mission gardens to help the work. They will not raise much, but it will be a beginning and will help to make them stronger Christians. Malinki has begun work again, and for the present he is looking after the schools around Monekera and doing evangelistic work. Simon has only just returned from his trip around the schools in the other direction, and seems to have had a profitable time. I shall get him to report concerning his trip. As soon as I have things fixed up for the end of the month, one of us must visit the Chirono schools, as there is a famine in that section, and we fear that we shall have to close the schools down there. If we do, one of the best teachers should stay there to look after the Bible classes and the general interest. We shall have to send food down to him. We are busy staking out the new rubber field, and will put in as much as there is seed for. We have a boy gathering the seed as it falls from the large trees by the boys’ houses.