A Chassu Hymn-Book by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1910

A Chassu Hymn-Book

By Editor

We have received from our Hamburg Publishing House a copy of a little hymn-book in the Chassu language, of German East Africa. It contains fifty-five hymns. The chorus of the hymn, “Come to the Saviour,” reads:—

“Ee ni yedi, yedi haiwa, Kaya yetu uko’wanga. Twaki yose hakwe Yesu. Yoya, nazi nami.”

We are glad to think of the gospel invitation ringing out in song in that language which had never been reduced to writing when our brethren began their work. Most of the hymns are translations from our German song-book.