Helping the Sick—Interesting Progress in South Africa
By Fanny C. Bourne
BOTH Brother and Sister E. C. Silsbee are doing all they can among the sick. This week they have visited and given treatment to three serious cases. Brother Silsbee has various experiences, as I suppose is common to all missionaries. A few weeks ago he was called from work in the garden to make a coffin for a little child that had just died. The relatives were so pleased that they asked him to preach a sermon at the grave. This gave opportunity to tell of the state of the dead and the resurrection to about one hundred people, including the chiefs of several villages. Brother Silsbee also had the honor of drawing a tooth for Josephine, one of the widows of Lerothodi, a former paramount chief of Basutoland. I have been interested in watching Brother Silsbee translate and print a chart of the Ten Commandments which he is using in the church services. Last week a minister of the Jerusalem Church came representing his people, and asking that they be admitted to our church. He has nine ministers under him, with five hundred members, and he says they are in harmony with the Sabbath truth. Brother Silsbee told him they would need more instruction first, and he is planning to visit them. This is the second visit from this man, asking the same thing.13Brother Lazarus and Brother Peter are having good times in the school and colporteur work. At our last Friday evening meeting, Lazarus told of one man who was very anxious to have a Sesuto copy of "Daniel and the Revelation." This man said if even one copy could be translated for him, he would give three pounds for it. Several near here are interested, and we pray they may be led to accept the whole truth.