Barotseland Mission Becomes Self-Supporting

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1911

Barotseland Mission Becomes Self-Supporting

MISSION work on the industrial plan so highly developed as to be self-supporting has been a problem counted well-nigh impossible. This, however, our mission station in Barotseland, South Africa, has attained. The South African Committee, in sending in its estimates for 1912, gives the cheering word that “Elder W. H. Anderson reports that Barotseland Mission requires £1,100 for operation for 1912, and is able to raise the full amount of its appropriation on the station. All they ask of the Mission Board is their prayers and moral support.” And Brother Porter says, “We have assured them they shall have their request.” This means much, and is a result attained only after long years of hard, patient toil and self-sacrifice, under the blessing of God. It is an answer to that difficult mission problem—keeping up a spiritual standard, and at the same time conducting industrial enterprises to the point of success that they are self-supporting. It has come by way of school work developing the soil. It is one of the remarkable achievements of the third angel’s message, and should be an occasion for thanksgiving to God for his prospering hand and loving guidance.