Methodist Mission Work at Inhambane
“INHAMBANE, one of the oldest Methodist mission points of the East African Coast, was for centuries the headquarters for slavery. The town, made up of several hundred Portuguese and a few Dutch, English, and other traders, and many natives, is located on a beautiful bay with two or three hundred miles of inland coast. A mission station is situated on this bay about four miles from the town, in a healthful location. The New Testament has been translated into the Tonga dialect and also into the Sheetswa dialect. “One of the most interesting phases of the work is that being done by converts from heathenism. A native teacher with his wife, on a salary of a few dollars a month, will establish himself in a town and with the assistance of the natives build a house out of native materials, and here will be parsonage, church, and school-house, abundantly good enough for the people.”