SOUTH AFRICA | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 4, 1902

SOUTH AFRICA.

In a letter to the Mission Board, dated January 29, Elder W. S. Hyatt sends encouraging news of the advancement of the message in Cape Town, South Africa. He says:—

“The Lord is blessing us here in the Conference in many respects. I must mention the sale of our paper, the South African Sentinel. For many years we have been printing only twenty-five hundred copies at each issue, and then we did not know how to use them. I have been trying to get our people to sell them, but it was not till lately that we began the work. Now there are several who are doing something in this way. They go out into the city Saturday nights, when the streets are full, and the canteens also, and go from place to place and sell, about as the Salvation Army does. In this way they sell from seventy-five to one hundred each Saturday night; sometimes more. Some have begun to sell among the business houses and from house to house, and in this way we are enabled to print at the present time forty-five hundred papers. The Lord is blessing this work, and all are very much encouraged. For some time we have been able to print five hundred extra copies each month, and still the good work goes on. Today we started a school in Cape Town. We had a meeting of the parents, and the Lord blessed in the opening. There will be about twenty-five students.”