Three Years in West Africa by D. C. Babcock

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 5, 1908

Three Years in West Africa

By D. C. Babcock

We have just closed our first three years on the West Coast of Africa, filled with interesting experiences, at least to ourselves, and we trust also to our dear people who have contributed of their necessities for the advancement of this message. We have endeavored to profit by the experiences of our brethren who preceded us in this land of darkness, and who have either laid down their lives or have been compelled to leave for home.

Our first seventeen months were employed in treating the West African fever, and in building a mission house. Jan. 10, 1907, we began our first public effort in our new tent, forty by sixty feet. Our only workers were Mrs. Babcock and the writer. We were signally impressed by the Holy Spirit that the effort was meeting the approbation of God. Every night for more than six weeks the meetings continued with decided victories for the Lord's work. The effort put forth resulted in establishing a good church of forty members, and in the erection of a suitable house of worship.

Our work has not been confined to Freetown, Sierra Leone, but we have opened the work at other places. In each effort the Lord has revealed his power. Good reports reach us also from the Gold Coast. The number of Sabbath-keepers on the West Coast of Africa is more than one hundred. The recent arrival of Prof. T. M. French and wife, to take charge of the educational work cheered all our hearts.

D. C. BABCOCK.