p. 24 | Spiritual Hunger in the Kongo

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 29, 1911

Spiritual Hunger in the Kongo

THERE is spiritual hunger over in the Kongo, Africa. It is reported that at one place where mission work has been carried on, more than nine hundred persons have been baptized. It is said also that it would require the entire time of one missionary to meet the delegations coming in from villages out on the plains, and far out into the jungles, urging that teachers be sent speedily to tell the people of the Saviour's love and of the way of life. One day recently some men came on foot from their village, 175 miles distant, on this same errand. They said they had been told that if they would build a church in their village, a teacher would come to show them the way of salvation. They had built a church, and they had waited and waited until the church had rotted down, but no teacher had come.