Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1922-04-29

work, hygiene and a dozen other rudt-
mentary things for the women i'll addi-
ton to their instruction from books,
For the men there is instruction in
every branch Of farm work, seed select
ion, blowing; narrowing; planting har
vCsting, storage, crop rotation, dairy
work and animal huSbnndry
carpentry, furniture making, brick
making and laying, etc.. The men
are taught how to grow and harvest
broom corn, make tito tufts into
brooms for the local market which is
good, and there are otner such special
work to make sure that every native
Christian can and will enter into the
new scheme of things with II trade Ut
some kind that will raise him to Il lev
ell in proportion to his increased re-
Quircmcnts because of education and
conversion.
and what is the result? The Old
SupcrStitiOnS are doomed. children arc
. not SO often killed or cast away If they
cut their lower teeth first, or for 9TH
, CT such supc:stitions. Old people whose
sons and daughters are Christians
earning Il good living are not sent out
. into the jungle to de, but are cared
! for and in sickness get the care Of the
mission doctor. Yes things are differ
cnt in RhodCsia about Old Umtnli and
its outStat:onS at Mutumabara. MtokO.
Mrcwa. Odzi, and others. today. Some
OF these stations arc fifty miles away,
sc one can understand how widespread
is our influence. I fancy the Govern
mcnt knew what it was doing when it
let us have that land. We arc building
up tire black folks into economically
fit, sclf-rcspccting citizens, law.abid-
ing and dependable.
I'm 1917 our work faced n crisis
which we had failed to forcsec because
there was so much 10 do for so many
years. Our teachers we had been train.
ing in the central mission school had
taught all they knew and the people of
the villages wanted more! So we add
cd higher courses at tho home school
up to about the sixth form, and gave
the teachers instruction ut intervals.
Now we have our first graduating class
at work after finishing all we could
give them last spring. There are only
four Of them for others felt they had
to go back to their people and teach
again before continuing to tho end. But
from now on we will have Il fcw gradu
ates each year.
"Thc graduates are Jonas Manjen-
gwa. David Mandisodza. Obidiah Chin
onyo, and James Muriro. Those men
arc from four different tribes and are
magnificent types of men in their
Christian lives and the leadership they
command among their people. They
arc all in the service Of the mission rs
tcacher-pastors in important centers.
The Government Of Rhodcsia gave
them an examination and awarded
them certificate which allows them
free passage anywhere without n writ
ten pass such as other natives must
carry when they travel, according TO
tho colonial law. This means they have
achieved citizenship In tho white man.
regime. Mandsodza has been made !.
Deacon In the Rhodesia Mission Con.
ference and entrusted to Il most din
cult post by unanimous consent
These men are the highest indiviL-
ual products OF our mission work. But
We have young men and women elucat
ca at our mission schools all over
South Africa. There are so many in
Johannesburg that We had to send n
missionary down there to take care Of
their spiritual life. He has mission
teaching going on in siXty-threc in.
ing compounds, touching some $4,000
native men,
This kind ot mission work is the
most fascinating calling in the world.
ThatS why we call stick-at-it-for good
was the first teacher ut Old Umtali.
and began with one pupil, a lad man,
ed kaduku Flnha, he came for one
hour each day. DR.. Quincy, our medi.
cal man. is also veteran Of twenty
years service or more, despite the rig
ors OF the CLIMATE. We MI expect to die
In tho harness, working in uplifting n
whole people to a plane Of civilization,
comfort and morality"