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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 8.

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MARITZBURG, NATAL.

By G. W. Reaser

I AM now busily engaged in holding a series of meetings in our new church at Maritzburg. The interest is excellent, and I am confident that some will decide in favor of the truth. There are at least ten towns in Natal, to say nothing about the Transvaal, in any one of which two good, consecrated Bible workers could locate for one year, and during that time a church could be raised up. The field is ripe for the harvest in Natal. The people need the truth and its saving power. This church at Maritzburg was raised up by Bible workers. A church has been built, worth, with the lot, probably about twenty-one hundred dollars, and their tithe will exceed seven hundred dollars a year. I never held meetings where the people manifested such an interest to hear the truth. They come out in the worst kind of weather, apparently as well as in the best. They urge me to go to their homes, and they have many questions to ask concerning the things presented in the meetings.
I wish we had a ton of literature to supply the Boer prison camps. These people are eager to get it, and we will never find them gathered together in the future, with time dragging heavily on their hands, as they are now. Shall we step out by faith and occupy the field now, or shall we wait until the way is hedged up? Wonderful opportunities are opening up before us for native work. Yet we are so short of workers and literature!
I have just been interrupted by a call from a man who, with his family, is attending our meetings. He urged me to advertise the meetings in the daily papers, and gave me the money to pay for the same. A letter from Bulawayo speaks very encouragingly of the work there, and also of the sale of Zulu Bibles. The workers there are quite anxious to have “Steps to Christ” and some other small publications translated and published. We hope in a few weeks to have these ready for the printer.
G. W. REASER.