PHE EDCATTHIN
ible
will take place.
Sabbath, az the
Whether
SIH Or
the week, the
lord's Dav.
this persecution may come
Liter, let no one of us participate in it.
fives as
bul may we have sa spent our
citizens of this worid that we shall bw
accounted worthy of
that
a Citizenship in
walls are of
old
City whose Jas pu
and whose streets are pure that
City in heaven above”
TO THE UNION COLLIGE STUDENTS
Moo Adar Frerend =
You have asked me to write vou about
the work we hind to doin Adriea, Ths
i
mission is years old.
Elder F. B
old Matabele Mission, now called Solus:
low nearly sv
Armitage had been at the
Station, {our years He desired to open
another mission further norti, so hie ob-
tained ten donkeys, and a big enuigram
wagon. Then, like Abraham. he took
his journey toward a tand which the
Lord would show ham After eight
days of steady travel partly hy day and
partly by oight, over sand and stones,
often with no roads, or but 2 cow path, a
kraals
The mission site as
suitable place was tound among
ol the Shuna tribe,
150 miles
Somabulo Forest.
north-east of salusy, 10 {he
Gwelo, on the Bern
Mashonaland Railway, thiviy miles away
and office.
is the nearest station post
zweleo resembles one of the frontier
towns of the west, set in the open coun:
try, and bounded
only by space. lts
people number about hitty white and
two hundred black.
The “forest” mentioned above is noun:
Like those of the St
recognize it as such,
os veu would aot
The average height
of the trees 1s twenty feet. Jmescarcely
fet,
maxim
ever reaches thirty Eighteen nv
ches is the diameter, and
many of the trees have tla spreading
Little
underbrush grows here, so with the trees
tops. The sot! is sandy, and very
MHENSENGEDR ty
crowing fur apart, the forest looks cone
siderably The an orchard when seen from
a sdistanoe, Most frees here are di
i The
Siduvus, fhe leaves falling in Jane.
beards used Tor seats in the school are
Py hand freon the mnéc fan dabae ree.
Poovvdis are one foot wide, touar-
foen feet long ond ve neh theck, The
wood 1s avd we
avy, and resembles
The
more cosnnon free, the
walvrwt ones hiat
Hpac 1s a
wood of which
hiord
Ps vary
and 1s waed for repairing
amd things requiring great
Fhe maugwe tree is ased for
making ov vokes
No dand is sold nere, so Elder Armitage
vents as much as he desires to cultivate.
The reatad is bitty cents an acre per year.
This Somabulo District is a native re-
serve whitch 1s the reason land will not
be wold. The Betish South Adrican Com
pany voverns the vast territory named
chavier
This
reserves certain regions where
Rhodesia under trom the
King of Foagland, COMpPany
minerals
are supposed to exist an winch mining
rights are sold for revenue,
Much
Classes
complaint 1s heard {rom all
adarnst government iniusiice.
You will notice on the stunp of this
letter the motto Justice. Commerce,
Freedom.” The peovle of the country
would reader the motto thus: "lojustice,
Extortion in trade, Bondage" One com-
plaiut of the natives is against the poll
tan. Each man and cach
boy above a
mast pay five dollars tax
The size of boys is the standard
Because neither the boy nor his parcats
koow bis age. No record is kept of the
frre of barth por of iny event whatever.
The tay 1 eneessive, being double that
ts of South
ol most Africa. Besides
thas poll tax oun wen, men haviug
than ane wife inusi
hore
~230 on each
one be
stddes the first, So aman having
ten wives wand ten boys over about
twelve years ofage mast pay =77.50 taxes,
Few men here ave able to afford more
than five waves, and the average is pro-