Schmelzenbach of Africa
Subtitle: The Story of Harmon F. Schmelzenbach Missionary Pioneer to Swaziland, South Africa
By: by Harmon Schmelzenbach III
Publisher: Nazarene Publishing House
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Kansas City, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Missionaries; Biography; Missions; Church of the Nazarene
First sentence: "They cry in the night. They perish in the darkness!" cried the voice of Harmon F. Schmelzenbach across the stilled thousands of listeners.
Description: The biography of Harmon F. Schmelzenbach (1882-1929) pioneer Nazarene missionary to the country of Eswatini (Swaziland) was written by his grandson, also a Nazarene missionary to Africa. Schmelzenbach died at the age of 47 and is buried near the mission station he established in Enzingeni, Eswatini. The book focuses on his brief life and also includes his wife, Lula Glatzel Schmelzenbach (1886-1960).
Notes: Bibliography : p. 102-103.
Table of contents: title: 1 The Call of Africa; title: 2 Trekking Northward; title: 3 The Gospel Takes Root; title: 4 Breakthrough; title: 5 Sibhaha—Strong Words from a Warm Heart; title: 6 Expansion in the Postwar Years; title: 7 They Perish in the Darkness; title: 8 Let Me Die Among My People; title: Bibliography