Gold Coast, West Africa
By D. U. Hale
I PRESUME that those who used to watch for reports from the Gold Coast of West Africa would like to know how the work on the Gold Coast is progressing. I was obliged to return to America on account of my health and that of my family. My children and I seem to be fully recovered, but my wife has not yet fully regained her health. I do thank God for his wonderful blessings upon us. I am now at work in Texas. My family is located at Keene. I get letters from the Gold Coast continually. Brother J. D. Hayford, a native there, is still doing what he can in the work. He has gathered several bright young men, and they meet regularly to study their Bibles and pray. Brother Hayford says: “My work here at present, while waiting to hear from you, consists of going out at times into the streets in the early morning to tell people about the soon coming of Christ, the true Sabbath, etc. I have Bible readings with such persons as I can have access to, and distribute such useful tracts and papers as I have on hand. “The leader of the young men I left at Cape Coast Castle writes to tell me that they have regular meetings for Bible study, prayer, and learning songs during my absence, for which I thank God and take courage. No doubt it will interest you also to learn that my youngest son, Sydney, now fully come to the age of manhood, and who has been at Bonny, in southern Nigeria, as a government schoolmaster for one or two years, has been doing some earnest work as a Seventh-day Adventist. He is an earnest lad, that good boy of mine is, and I bless God for him.” Thus you see the work is not dead, and I hope that this seed, though struggling for existence, may yet spring up into a great plant for God’s kingdom, to build up his cause in that region. Brother Hayford has some gold-mining lands that he has been trying to dispose of to get money to establish a mission and school on the Gold Coast, but he has not succeeded yet. When I get these letters from him, it stirs my soul. Brethren, while we are praying for the advance of God’s message in the earth, let us remember the Gold Coast.