Missionaries in Zululand

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1879

Missionaries in Zululand.

THE London Times correspondent at Durban states that John Dunn, the Zuluized Scotchman, who is now the most important of the thirteen new chiefs of Zululand, has announced to the veteran missionary of Tebro, over which John Dunn is appointed, that he does not intend to allow any missionaries to settle in his territory. This is the most important of the new districts, and the nearest to Natal. The Zulus were gladly welcoming the missionaries back when they were thus stopped. It is much to be feared that the bad example thus set by John Dunn, who is a European although polygamist, may be followed by the other chiefs.

The Times says: "It will hardly be reckoned among the satisfactory results of the war now happily at an end that the missions scattered throughout Zululand should be abandoned, and that many peaceful examples of a civilized and a self-denying, not to speak of a Christian life, should hereafter be withdrawn from the country."