p. 15 | Our Solusi Mission

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 10, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 18.

Our Solusi Mission

From our Solusi mission in South Africa Brother M. C. Sturdevant writes of the good work that God has been doing during the latter part of 1909. At the beginning it looked very discouraging indeed, having but forty boarding students in the school at the mission; but since that time the house has been more than full, and they are coming from native tribes all around. Our schools number seven now.

Some of the chiefs and parents have been bitter. At least they did not wish schools started in their kraals, or villages; but the young men and women said they would have to go to the teacher if the teacher could not come to them, and so the chiefs have opened up the way for out schools. A short time ago fathers were selling their girls for cows or trading them for wives, but this has been prohibited in Rhodesia, and the girls have found out that they can not be sold to a man against their will, and so now thirty-one promising girls are in the home.

There are only three white workers carrying on a mission farm of 300 acres in cultivation, a store, seven out schools, and the large mission school. Thirty-three were baptized in 1909. Surely help ought to be sent to Brother Sturdevant. May God bless these noble, self-sacrificing missionaries.