p. 10 | Out-Station of the Malamulo Mission

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

Out-Station of the Malamulo Mission

By S. M. KONIGMACHER

S. M. KONIGMACHER

The work in this part of the Master's vineyard is going steadily forward, and we thank God for what success we have had. There are few natives living near the mission; so when seventy-five come to Sabbath service, we feel especially grateful, as they come from quite a distance. All the services are carried on in the native language.

On Friday our teachers go to the far-away villages, and on Sabbath to the nearest ones, to hold services. Last week there were five hundred seventy-five who attended village meetings. This does not include the work of five teachers in out-schools some distance away.

A few weeks ago one of our teachers went to his school, and finding but a few children, searched for the others. He found them in another village at a big dance and beer-drink. Two hundred twenty-five men, women, and children were congregated there; but they stopped the dance, and listened respectfully as the teacher talked to them about Jesus. Our teacher appealed to the chief, and was granted permission to conduct a school. This is especially gratifying, as but a few months ago this same chief forbade his children to attend our school.

We have also been granted permission to open a school in a village which has been twice refused on account of the Catholics. Altogether we have eight out-schools, and a three-session school at the mission.

We have one case in our native hospital. The other evening a child was brought to us, supposed to be dying, but one simple treatment was sufficient to relieve the little one, and it was soon restored to health. Last week the drums were sounding the death of the chief's child, but a simple remedy was very effective, and the little one recovered.

This evening three boys came from a distance to go to school, sleeping two nights on the road. They seem willing to hoe, although one is just back from the Johannesburg mines, and the other is a teacher from another school.

So, although opposition is great, God is greater. Pray for the work.

British Central Africa.