West Africa by J. M. Hyatt

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 11, 1903

West Africa

By J. M. Hyatt

CAPE COAST CASTLE.—Our work is moving along quite well, and we are being greatly blessed in many ways. At our street meeting last Sunday here, our congregation blocked the street entirely. It is wonderful how the Lord has gone before us.

Many things that one would not expect to find on the Coast are here. I very much needed a portable organ, for street and other uses. To my surprise my neighbor had one. He tells me to use it at any time I like. We thank the Lord. It has been a great help to us in our work. Music is very much enjoyed by the natives. It helps in our street meetings, too. The meetings are very well attended at our hall Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

We greatly need one or two teachers, as it is impossible for me to teach and attend to the other work also. We are having vacation now. We had six classes, the sessions lasting from ten to twelve o’clock in the morning, and from two to four in the afternoon. The work is graded from the beginners to classes in algebra. Many are expecting to attend after vacation. We can not tell how matters will work out, but the work is more than I can do alone.

Our blessings seem more than we can number. Last Sunday one of the well-to-do native merchants called on me, and made us a present of a new chapel organ. It certainly is a good one. It probably cost fifty pounds. The enemy had just taken the one we used the Sabbath morning before. The Lord looks after his work. We enjoy it here, taking all things together, and we have every reason to be of good courage. I do dental work when time permits. In this way we are able to help many.

We have two boys living with us. (One is about twenty years of age, and the other a small boy. The older one hopes to go into the work sometime. He is a member of our church.

J. M. HYATT.