A WORTHY EXAMPLE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 15, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 42.

A WORTHY EXAMPLE.

ABOUT the highest record for church activity that has come to our attention is that reported in the current issue of the Missionary Herald. The church whose record it gives is a native Zulu church at Durban, Natal, South Africa. “That church,” says the Herald, “nearly reaches its ideal in the sending out of every male member that is at all qualified for such service, to take some active part in preaching the Gospel each Sunday. Do not overlook this remarkable record of a church presided over by a Zulu pastor, and holding fifty-two meetings of varying character on each Sunday. From the same Zulu mission comes an account of a young man who was earning about ten dollars a week in business, large wages for a native. He gave up this position that he might prepare for the ministry. His employers asked him how much he could expect to receive as minister after his three or four years of

study, and he replied, ‘Perhaps five or ten dollars a month.’ He was told that he was a fool, but he replied that he was convinced that God had called him, and that he must obey the voice of God.”

Is there not in this a lesson for many of us who have long known the way? These native Christians are up as early on Sunday as on other days of the week, and all day long some of them are conducting meetings in some part of the city. How many churches in the home land have such a record as this? How many should have?