p. 17 | West Coast, Africa by D. U. Hale

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1903

West Coast, Africa

By D. U. Hale

SEKONDI.— All are well at present, but this week all have been sick except myself and the baby. But though we have been away from Cape Coast Castle only six days, I can see a difference for the better in the general condition of the family.

This evening I was talking with a black man who is with the principal chief of this country, and he tells me that the chief is very anxious to have a school and mission at his village, which is the principal native town on the new railroad. The king lives about eight miles away, but the chief seems to be the business manager of the native government. I shall see him soon, and will know his mind better, but the man said the chief was exceedingly anxious for the school. If the Lord opens the way to enter, I hope we shall be able to do so. This place to which we have moved is about five hours’ walk from that village.

This mission trip has been the hardest fight with the devil, since the day I left home in Keene, that I ever made. And the battle is not nearly over yet. The battle is so long and worrying that I almost despair; but I remember that the battle is not mine, but the Lord’s, so I say, “Lord, I am ready to go on.” Pray for us. D. U. HALE.