The Work in Africa by Daniel T. Bourdeau

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1875

The Work in Africa.

By Daniel T. Bourdeau

Bro. Joseph Ernhardt, a French ex-soldier, aged 22 years, who served through the Franco-Prussian war, received the Sabbath in St. Louis, Senegal, Africa, about two years ago. He reports that there are six families keeping the Sabbath in that place, and from the account he gives I think this must be the result of Sr. Hannah More's faithful labors. I baptized this young man four weeks ago.

I think the providence of God has brought him among us to stir up our minds on the importance of extending the work in foreign lands. He is a good German scholar, has quite a good knowledge of the French and Spanish languages, and speaks the Italian some. He now wishes to learn the English, and to become more familiar with our views and ways, that he may return to Africa as a missionary. He wishes to find employment as a clock repairer or farmer with a substantial Sabbath-keeping family in a good church in or near Battle Creek, that he may learn the English language, and attend one or more terms of our school and a course of Biblical lectures.

D. T. Bourdeau.