ANOL GRUNDSET by Anol Grundset

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 23, 1911

ANOL GRUNDSET

By Anol Grundset

ASMARA, EAST AFRICA.—Our school has just closed for a three months’ vacation. All the students have scattered to their various homes and villages, where they will meet numerous questions concerning us and our work and faith. Thus our school will be better known among the people. We feel thankful to God for our first year’s school work. Though there were many obstacles to encounter in making a beginning, the work has gone well. The Lord has sent us students from places we never thought of, places never visited by us. We even had one lad from away across the border, in Abyssinia. The seed of truth that has been sown, we hope will remain with them; and we are earnestly praying God to water it by his Holy Spirit. We hope that these, with others, may return to us for the coming school year, which we expect to open on New-year’s day, the Lord willing. We have asked the Mission Board for means and permission to double our number of students the coming year, which we hope will be granted, the treasury allowing. We are made glad by the recent arrival of Brother Emery Lorntz, of Norway, as a collaborer for this field. Brother P. N. Lindegren is at present in the Debaroa District, better to acquaint himself with the language and the people. Several deaths by cholera have taken place in the capital city, Asmara; but the Italian government has taken rigid measures to stamp it out, which seem to have been effective. We are of good courage.