p. 16 | South Africa by Mrs. P. E. Frost

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 16, 1914

South Africa

By Mrs. P. E. Frost

IN March, 1910, I sailed for South Africa as a self-supporting worker, bearing my own expenses to the field. After spending some months with my daughter in Basutoland, I felt a longing to get back into the field, so in May of the next year I began work in East London, a city beautifully situated on the Indian Ocean.

At first I dreaded to start in a new and strange field, for I did not know how I should be received; but I soon found that there were good, true-hearted men and women here as well as at home, and just as hungry for the Bread of life. I have worked the greater part of the time since, having taken a few short holidays.

While I cannot boast of great things being accomplished, what has been done is all due to our dear Heavenly Father, who has taken this weak instrument of clay and used it to his own glory in spreading his wonderful message of love and salvation.

It is due to my dear friends in America and England, who assisted me in every way they could, that I write these lines to let them know I am still pressing on, and doing what I can to "sound the alarm."

I have sold 275 copies of "Practical Guide," 342 of "Heralds of the Morn-ing," 100 or more of "Coming King," Dutch and English, besides many of "Christ Our Saviour," "Paradise Home," "Friend in the Kitchen," "New Testament Primers," "The House We Live In," and "Prophetic Lights." I have taken about 400 subscriptions for the South African Sentinel, and a goodly number for De Wachter and Good Health, besides selling out of hand several hundreds of Life and Health, Good Health, Sentinel, and Signs of the Times.

Brother G. H. Clark, our general missionary agent, in summing up the work of the agents, found that I had delivered in three and a half years about $2,238 worth of books. One half of this gave me $1,119 for forty-two months, or a little more than $25 a month. Everything here costs about twice what it does in the homeland, so the paper selling and subscriptions helped to keep my accounts on the right side of the ledger. Thus I can praise God, who has promised to supply all our needs, that I have been able to pay my way and keep straight with the world.

Often I have thought of my many friends, and would have been glad to write to them; but it takes time, and money too. I have loved my work, and love it still. My heart is full of gratitude to my loving Heavenly Father that he still enables me at my age (fifty-seven) to help in distributing the printed page here in Africa. I am now in towns I have never worked before, and I wish the prayers of God's people, that I may do faithful service, and that precious souls may be won through my instrumentality. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."

MRS. P. E. FROST.