Africans Flock to School
By C. Robinson
ONE of our out school teachers here in Nyasaland writes: "When our school opened, we had one hundred and seventy-five; but now we have two hundred and ninety-one names on the roll book. And still more are coming. Last Sabbath, we had three hundred and ninety-three in our Sabbath school." A later report from the same teacher says that the school now numbers nearly four hundred. A few hundred miles away, the people are in the same state of heathenism as were their forefathers, and know nothing of the Saviour. During a recent visit to these heathen communities, I saw numerous miniature huts in the villages, each containing a beer pot and a food basket. In many cases, these huts were made simply by setting a forked pole in the ground, on the top of which was a neatly made grass roof. In the fork of the pole, the beer pot and the food were placed, intended for the spirits of the family's dead friends. We now have in British Central Africa two hundred and fifty church members, forty out schools, and about seventy teachers and assistants. At the main station and in the out schools, we have about two thousand students.