p. 17 | Malamulo Mission by J. C. Rogers

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 16, 1911

Malamulo Mission

By J. C. Rogers

WITH the coming of Brother Ellingworth, on November 6, our work in Nyasaland gains in working strength what we have needed for a long time. We shall now be able to undertake some of the work which has before been neglected. In this country the village work and out-schools are, or should be, the strongest features of our work. Here we secure the confidence and interest of the people, especially of the children, who are to become our members. Very few old people change from their ancient habits and customs. In the youth lies our hope of teaching the message to the multitudes.

Mrs. Rogers has already planned to go personally into a group of villages about twenty miles away and open an out-school. She is greatly interested in this out-school work, and has spent much time at it intermittently for over two years. With our little mission tent she can be somewhat comfortable, notwithstanding the many deprivations. We feel burdened to get the truth before the people in view of the rapid increase of the plague of sleeping sickness. In the past year Europeans as well as natives have been stricken with it. One notable case of a minister visiting the Dutch Reformed Mission, who was suddenly found to be suffering from this dread disease, is now causing much stir here. We have heard of eleven other cases of the disease, and of deaths having occurred frequently during the last eighteen months.

Prosperity is attending the work of God in Nyasaland. All the workers are well, and for this we are very thankful. By forethought and care, Brother Ellingworth has reached us with strength to enter into the work at once. Heartily taking hold to share the responsibilities and cares of the mission, his help is being gratefully appreciated. We now hope to proceed with translating and printing reading-books, hymn-books, and tracts, a work too long neglected.

The number of our native teachers and pupils is at present larger than ever before — over fifty teachers and twenty-five schools.

Nothing has done me more good for a long time than my visit to two new schools among the real Nyanza people. Looking into the eager faces of a hundred children crowded into their grass schoolhouse, while teaching them to sing “Jesus Loves Me,” for the first time, is about as inspiring an event as one can take part in. These two schools have an enrolment of over two hundred thirty. They are ten miles apart,—one at the foot of the mountains, and the other right up among them. I walked from one school to the other one evening, a heavy shower falling on the journey. Next day I walked eighteen miles to the mission station, with no worse results than the usual weariness.

J. C. ROGERS.