The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-08-04
Describes Life And Labors of The Missionaries Try
ing To Educate And Civilize The Blacks
In Their Native Country
EDUCATION BEST MEANS OF CONVERSION
Believes Music One Of The Most Evangelistic Of
Means Used; Cleanliness Another Strong
Factor In Work OF Moral Salvation

er the white boys of Aliwal Street
| Church, Durham, nor many of the par
ents of the boys in any of the towns
of South Africa have ever visited
mission station to see the work that
is going on. If white men who are
sceptical on the question of missions
would spend only one day on mis-
sion station, and follow missionary
in his work for that day, they would
come back with altered opinions of
what is good for the native and of
what is due to him by the superior
race which has taken possession of
the land that was originally his.
The verdict of those Christian En-
deavour boys, whose heterodoxy had
the opportunity of correcting at the
time, instilled in me a strong desire
! to spend some time on one of the
nearby stations to Durham, where mis-
sionary work is done exclusively by
the educational method. had hearty
invitation from the principal, the Rev.
A. E. LIE Roy, B. A., to visit the Aman-
zimtoti Institute at Adams Mission
Station, of the American Zulu Mis-
sion, 25 miles from Durham, and to
spend as long time there as / could
spare.
Visits The Mission
On beautiful, bracing September
day, at Amanzamtoti station l found
myself sitting in the Adams Mission
! trap, beside Mrs. Bunker, the wife
of one of the missionaries, who was
returning from Inanda Mission Sta
ton, where she had been visiting for
few days. | found in Mrs. Bunker
a missionary heroine, who had splen-
did grasp of the whole subject. and
who could speak from an experience
of % years. Calling my attention
alternately to some phase of their
work or to some beautiful bit of seen
cry in the billy journey or over a
rough road, we came to the top of
hill which looked down on a large
basin, the centre of which is dotted
over with buildings. That is Adams
Mission Station. The rim of the basin
is formed of an unbroken ridge Of
hills, and has diameter of two miles
from rim to rim. In the bottom of
the basin is series of lower hills.
On the central one, which is fiat
topped, stands the house of the prin-
cipal and Jubilee Hall, the main dor
mitory adjoining. Among the hills
winds the Amanzimtoti River to the
sea, six miles distant. From one or
two of the central hills glimpses of
the ocean may be had with steamers
sailing by on their way from Cape
town to Durham All the industrial
buildings stand at about the same
height as Mr.. LIE Roy's house, but
the other buildings for school pur-
poses are erected at considerably low
err attitudes.
The reception at any missionary's
house in South Africa is always the
same, gracious and hearty. / had
not been in the house an hour before
| felt perfectly at home with Mr.. and
Mrs. LIE Roy and their four bright
children, and with Mr.. Taylor, Mr..
Brueckner, and Miss Griffiths, teach
ers who have their home in the house
of the principal. The Principals
wife, like her husband, is graduate
of 0berlin College, Ohio, U. S.; she
is charming hostess, devoted moth
} er, and is brimful of missionary acu-
men. The one thing that caught my
attention in the dining room was a
telephone apparatus on the wall. ]
asked if they were in touch with Dur
ban. "Oh, no" said Mr.. LIE Roy, 1--WE
got few pieces of telephone appa-
ratus from the Durham Corporation
which they had cast off, but it is only
to keep us In touch with the other
, missionaries houses at the station
and now the wires have given way
, and the telephone is silent. / am
| waiting till | can lay my hands on q
five-pound note to get it in working
} order again, for it saved US many q
step in broiling sunshine or pouring
rain as long as it worked Some OF
; the houses are about a mile apart
J and feet have to do what electricity
} once did"
Native Singing
/ was greatly interested in the sing.
! ing of the natives Of Adams Mission
Station, and one or two others with
it, at the Missionary Exhibition II
Durham in 1911. And before dinner
was finished the first night at Adams
had the singing revived The boys