TO OUR PEOPLE by S. H. Carnahan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

TO OUR PEOPLE.

By S. H. Carnahan

COLLEGE PLACE, Wash., Aug. 13, 1893.

MANY of you no doubt heard Brother P. J. D. Wessels at the California and other camp meetings talk in regard to the advancement of God's work in South Africa, also of the steps to be taken next February or March to plant a mission in a new field in South Africa, which is being thrown open for white settlers.

The land is spoken of as a good land, and the inhabitants hail with joy the advent of the whites.

What a wonderful opening this is for consecrated persons and families with means to go and settle and live and teach the truth to the poor untutored African, for the company that has opened this land for settlement will give to persons going and settling for this purpose such tracts of land as will enable such a colony to be self-supporting and sustain a good mission.

Brother Wessels feels quite urgent over the question, and would like to see a colony of good families from among our people make use of this opportunity, and he wished me to place the matter before the people here, and correspond with those that would be willing to contemplate such a move, and he would correspond with me, and we could all work in harmony and move together, while it would be very hard for him to correspond with each family separately.

All must realize that such an undertaking would require great sacrifice, and that only those that truly have Christ within ought to make such a move.

Brother Wessels will probably soon have an article published in the SIGNS about Mashonaland. All who feel an earnest desire and expectation to go to this new field next spring should correspond with me soon, so all arrangements can be completed some time before time for starting.

Yours in the work, S. H. CARNAHAN. College Place, Wash.