Kolo Mission by M. E. Emmerson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1912

Kolo Mission

By M. E. Emmerson

Africa

Kolo Mission.—The week of prayer at Kolo was a profitable time. Each service was well attended. Some came a distance of six miles regularly.

From December 16 to 20 I visited Mr. and Mrs. van Rooyan, who live near Morija, Basutoland. Both Mr. and Mrs. van Rooyan are keeping the Sabbath faithfully. When times were very hard with this family, a position of overseeing on the roads was refused Mr. van Rooyan because he would not work on the Sabbath. It was a trial, but God sustained him and made him firm to principle. In compliance with Mrs. van Rooyan’s request, she is to be baptized before long. We hope that her husband will soon follow. They have two intelligent children, a son and a daughter, twelve and seven years old. The son, being the older, is coming to Kolo to attend school, Mrs. Emmerson having consented to give him private lessons in the home.

On my way home from Mr. van Rooyan’s place, I visited the paramount chief, who was sick at the time, and had been in bed five months. I talked to him about the cabinet-bath treatment and its benefits. I also offered to give him fomentations, to which he consented. He received such benefit from the treatment that when I had to go, he gave me money to secure a cabinet bath complete. This will be the first in Basutoland.

His parting words were, “Look my country through and find a well-watered place suitable for a school, and come point it out, and I will give it to you.” We praise God that he has given us favor with the big chiefs of Basutoland.

In your prayers remember the message and messengers in this country.

M. E. Emmerson.