The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-19

| oliions, and With the same end in view -
the ultimate lettering 81 the condition Of
| their fellows in South Africa
| Behind the four and their coming SO far
across the sea there Is a story that is almost
| a romance. When IT i, told il should put
| every mission worker in the United States
! behind these young men IN their efforts
| ~ educate themselves. for they are living
! illustrations Of tho good work done by the
| American missionaries in foreign lands.
Away back III tho oarly days of British
| colonizinG in Africa Ih"ro wandered into
| ZnIuland an Englishmsn who was tired of
| civilization and the old lite and wanted 10
try new one Dingan The Cruel ruled then
! hu' Dingan liked The white man and allowed
| him to live among his People and teach
! them nov things.
Particularly hc founded little school
| in which he taught tho children that there
! were things worth doing besides lighting
| the Kings battles in tho Kings regiments
and adding now conquered peoples to the
| many already under his thumb
so. when tho American Board Of Foreign
I Missions seut rs first missionaries among
| N" Inrs IN Isj2, the way was already pre-
! pared for them to- some extent, Capt
va Tul'li '''fl ''lsl' NlSDPS ~ mo NlnE
and 'hoy received from hvn he permission
| they needed ~ carry ON their work.
Here and there in Iumland they cstab-
! li-hnd SCHOOLS of their own. modelled on
| Gardiner one. and tho missions prospercd
! To one of these out posts. after year. had
| passed fed the Induna Dute. commanders
! in-chief OF the Kings army. will his wife
| and infan' son His enemies had told the
King hal his favorito General was plotting
against him and he King had believed hem
! But before the order "a give his life 10 tho
| King could b" issued. be frduna vas hid
/ den With tho missionaries ~ Iinrllev, the
>'ai ion they had named for it, founder
! There he lived ont his life. and There his
son was educated bY tho missionaries and
taught in their faith. IN time they sent he
bow out TO civilization for ie'ter training
and whom hc returned hc was tho Rcv.
INES Dul -. the first duly qualified native
missionary IN Natal He took charge Of
the mission school and broriCh up his own
son. when ono came Ia him, IN it.
! To tho bows in the school one and all. he
! taught the same lessons Of The value Of ed
rcation and Of their duty to their fellow
| count ryIncn, who somehow or other must
! be taught tho white mans ways and his plan
| of civilization /: they would survive a. n
| nation.
And from him and from tho American
missionaries in whose lind he himself had
| cOmplet ed his ednCat iOnal course hey hea rd
| the same thing, tia, tho country in which
| cducat ION Could b. most readily acquired
| hv any one depcudcn' only on himself and
] willing 10 work, was h" United States.
That is why there mr." nov -four Zulu
Young men in this country. who some day
will spread the fame ~ tn" United States
| among the natives in South Africa There
| is the native teachers own son, MHndh-
! lakavire, which in English means, In
| Institute in Salem. y. G.: there l. s. Ndung.
| Gume 10. son OF the Chief Mqae" and,
| like tho DUE . of Zulu roval blood. az
| Wherefore" University in Ohio. and there
| are Pixlev X = Isoka Some and his brother.
First II wGs one Xrm seeking knowledge
| here: now thor" are four, and whcu those
| return with their stories of old world Cul-
| tirc, they viii send over more still So
| that the li''l" mission school in South
| Africa started 10y one American |. like "A
| pebble thrown into he water. sending back
across the sea = constantly increasing
| number Of native people who will make
| friends and allies for tho United States
and i,s citizens in tho lands so far away.
1t has been NJ easy task for these Young
| men 10 get here at all and is still less easy
| for them 10 learn and work 10 support
| themselves That they have succeeded
so far shows me;tle in the Zulu race Il
was point of honor with Dingan's soldiers
| mover 10 turn back. md some of their spirit
must animate their drscendanis
| Take the vorth ~ Columbia. II Il four
wears since le worked his way westward
| from South Africa to New York. That time
| IA has spent ~ Mount Hsrmon. one of
| Dwight l.. Moody's schools at Mortified,
| Mass.
Bv his own labor he paid his way and this
| fell he was graduated with honors. Now
no proposes 20 repeat at Columbia his ex-
| perience az Mount Hermon.
| he Is not finicky about how he earns the
| money tn pay his way. 10 long as IL Il honest
| money, may be seen from the letter he sent
| to Prof. Reuben A Meyers Of Columbia.
! chairman of the Faculty Committee on