More Workers for Africa by L. R. Conradi

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 11, 1912

More Workers for Africa

By L. R. Conradi

As the Lord has opened up a wonderful field for us on the east side of Victoria Nyanza, equal in importance to Uganda in the north, and of even more promise, we have been pushing in quite a number of workers, both in the northern English portion and in the southern German. Thus far the German government has been by far the more favorable to our work, and has even offered a number of stations to us, though the Catholics are trying hard to push their missions in that territory. On Sabbath, March 9, we had a farewell service in the Hamburg church for the German missionaries who are starting for that field. The young people had another farewell meeting for them on Tuesday, and the “Windhuk” will carry four more missionaries to Africa,— Brother and Sister F. Bornath, Brother R. Munzig, and Brother Schurig. Brethren Bornath and Munzig, after being graduated from the school in Friedensau, took a six months’ course at the Hamburg Colonial Institute, and have acquired considerable knowledge of the Swahili. Brother Schurig is a nurse, and Sister Bornath has had three months’ training in medical work in Friedensau.

We expect that on April 19 three missionaries will sail from England for the English portion. They are Brother and Sister F. Spearing, who have been attending the school in Watford, and who have also been out in the field as missionary workers, and Brother L. Lane, who has been employed in the publishing house. Brethren Spearing and Lane have had a three months’ course in medical work, at the Livingstone College in London. We are very happy indeed thus to be able to send out in a short time several new missionaries to Africa. We are now selecting an equal number to attend the schools in London and Hamburg, and to be ready to leave by October. The news from Africa is encouraging. L. R. CONRADI.