WARRIORS MARCHING AROUND A CHIEF'S GRAVE, AS DESCRIBED BY MRS. ANDERSON
Good Progress in Dark Africa
By W. B. White
W. B. WHITE
President South African Union Conference
THE past year has been one of blessing and progress with us here in Africa. As a result of our labors among the native tribes, about three hundred have turned from darkness to light, and received baptism. Wonderful transformations are wrought in their lives by the power of God.
Only a few months ago, a young married man who was a Red Kafir came to our Maranatha Mission and desired admittance to the school. This was granted, and he began his work.
One day, some of our converted boys saw him smoking on the mission grounds, and at once told him that smoking was not allowed there. He inquired if smoking was against the rules of school; and being informed that it was, he immediately took his pipe from his mouth, and placing it on a stone, he crushed it with another, and no tobacco has been near him since. His victory seems to be complete, and he is now yielding his heart to God. He gives promise of becoming a worker among his people. And this boy's experience is but one among many equally interesting.
Many Native Students
We now have about three thousand students in our mission schools, many of whom are very promising young men and women, who we trust will make workers. As far as our means will permit, we are taking advanced steps into the great untouched mission fields.
New Stations and Publishing Houses
We are now planting three or four new stations in Kafirland, and another in northwest Rhodesia, far up near the Kongo border. Steady progress is also made in other parts of Rhodesia, in Nyasaland, and among the Zulus and the Basutos. We have recently printed an edition of two thousand Bible readings in the Chitonga, one of the languages of Northwest Rhodesia; and a hymn book of two hundred hymns is now being printed in the same language. Our presses are also at work on "Steps to Christ" in the Sechuana, the language of the Bechuanas; and we hope that erelong a few tracts may be issued in the several languages of the country.
PREPARING DINNER AT SOLUSI MISSION
As we see the work rising among both the whites and the natives, it cheers our hearts, and we desire to be faithful till the work is finished, and Africa has heard the gospel message. Much yet remains to be done. There are many tribes who have never heard the name of Jesus; but the Spirit of God is working on the hearts of these heathen people, and thousands are longing for a better life. We feel that now is the time to give the gospel trumpet a certain sound, so we press on.
